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My Puppy’s First Flight

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Today was a historic day… It was my puppy’s first flight!
We tried last weekend for the first time… But she was terrified by the sound of the engine and so we just shut down and “called it a day”.  During the week we bought “Mutt Muffs” for her, which you can see below (notice that Lisa insisted on them being Pink):
So after practicing at home we headed to the airport on Sunday morning.  You can see how she did in the short Youtube video below:

Now that she has had her first flight, we need to find somewhere to go with a dog friendly hotel!

Cheers,
== T.J.==

First Four Legged Passenger

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Until today, all of my passengers were people.  But today was a long overdue flight… I loaded up my first four legged passenger (Tristan) in preparation for takeoff.

The route was rather simple (Ft Lauderdale to Tampa).  However, there were a bunch of clouds surrounding Ft Lauderdale around departure time.
I filed a quick IFR flight plan with the full intention of canceling it as soon as I was above the clouds.
I was a little nervous about how Tristan would react to the noise of the engine powering up on takeoff.  But he did totally fine.  In fact, shortly after takeoff, he and his little purple bunny were fascinated by the clouds:
Tristan was a very helpful co-pilot and even pointed out a very photo worthy cloud formation that looked like a heart.

Heart shaped cloud formation
After all the excitement of the flight, both Tristan and his purple bunny were exhausted and fell right asleep!
Cheers,
== T.J.==