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        <description><![CDATA[I started this blog before my first flight lesson. Read on to see what I fly today.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Skynews.ch Magazine 09/2013]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[News! Read the latest story of myclimbrate.com in the september edition of SkyNews.ch (aviation magazine). They even have an app for your iPad - click here. The article is about the fly-out to Greece I talked about last time. I apologize for not blogging... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oldtimer Fly-Out Greece]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Back from 11 days of flying: From Switzerland to Greece. The journey is 20.4 hours in my logbook and I have many stories to tell. Coming soon.... ;) Approach to Losinj Croatia ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[163.8h - Aviation Sunday]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[No, this was no lazy sunday! :) After an incredible Muse concert on saturday... ...my father had the brilliant idea to go flying! We flew to a small grass field, called Sitterdorf (LSZV). It had a short runway of just 1570 feet and both threshold were... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[156.7h - Alps Crossing]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Franklin engine roared to live and accompanied us with its distinctive galloping sound, while taxiing to runway two five. I gave the girls a quick passenger briefing and took off into the blue skies. Crossing the alps will always amaze me. :) The... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[152.3h - Conversion FAA-EASA Complete]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have passed the practical test - the final piece to complete my conversion! =) =) =) My grin will not disappear for the next days. I am so happy now... All the hassle is over. I finally hold two stand-alone pilot certificates. Winter went on into the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Class Delta Confusion]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In class delta airspace, does air traffic control ensure separation between IFR and VFR traffic? The answer is no. Curiously enough 75% of private pilots and 70% of airline transport pilots believe it is not their responsibility. A survey revealed this... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[NDB 531 kHz]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday my car had a flat battery. My girlfriend's dad helped to get it running again. Later, on the way to work, I found out the cooler fan and radio didn't work anymore. Oh I love this Ford Fiesta.... after work the radio came back to life (who needs... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[50nm Cross-Country]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[One of the easy-to-accomplish tasks toward my commercial pilot licence is the cross-country flight time as pilot in command. I need 50hrs and I think I almost got it. Since I work toward a licence the flights have to cover at least 50 nautical miles in... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blue Skies]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[During the grey fall days it is hard to believe that there's blue skies - anywhere above. One lucky Saturday the clouds opened up a bit to let us catch a bit of sunlight. Knowing there weren't any clouds in the alps, we headed toward them for a $100 fondue.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Never Attempted Flight]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Private Pilot Checkflights are very thoroughly planned by the students. A day before mine my examiner told me to plan a flight from Seattle over the mountains to Wenatchee. I spent a half day on this flight plan. I would follow a river and a highway towards... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Wind Called Joran]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["At times Joran south of Jura Mountains", do you know what this means? I did not and that's why I made a note on my weather briefing to find out after the flight. On descent into the aerodrome of Neuchâtel nature answered my question - by simply turning... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flying Like a Skylark]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A letter from the Swiss aviation administration stated that I, a young pilot with 110h total time and 444 landings, indeed am a pilot. I told them before but they would not listen. What they were looking for were four solo circuits - done in Switzerland... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Let's Go Flying]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday my girlfriend asked if we would go to the airport's restaurant on the weekend. I wasn't sure if I heard right but I agreed without asking why. Anyhow, I really need to give her a bouquet of lilies for this one. :) My father called today and... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Never Landed on a Footballfield?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Neither have I, nevertheless the airport at Lake Zurich felt as if it was one. After a nice and stable approach over the water - which reminded me of flying floats at 500' and below - I touched down pretty much on the numbers and I didn't even need to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[111.2h - Validation Complete]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[You come home from flying with a big grin on your face. You take off your shoes and - damn, what's that smell?! - you probably had your first solo. In my case, I completed the validation process from FAA to EASA by a first solo in EASA-land. Yay! Party... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[108.3h - No Pain No Gain]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If a passenger would glance at my logbook she or he would never fly with me. I just filled another page and there is only one flight where I did not have an emergency. Although it was all simulated - I had no normal flights. I am longing for the day when... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[EASA Changes are in the air]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Every pilot is part of the voice of General Aviation. The least I can do today is to re-blog a very good read from AOPA UK; click the link for the original article. There is also a commentary about this issue written by the president of Europe Air Sports... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Swiss Mountain Flying]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[At the mountainous airport of Saanen you find all kind of people. There is the Glacier pilot with his Maule, working on his engine in the hangar. There is the unknown blonde celebrity on the co-pilot's seat of a PC-12, desperately waiting for her limousine.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lausanne for my Girlfriend]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have been talking about flying for months. My girlfriend, Selina, never flew with me until last weekend. Finally she can't question anymore if I were a pilot at all! Check out this picture my mom took on the flight home. I believe this flight was a... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Precision Flying - First Try]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Take a stopwatch and a map then fly a given route as precise as you can. My father and I tried our best at a training event of the Precision Flying Association. This day taught me a lot. The first lesson was learned before even taking of. In the morning... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Feel the Freedom]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The song in this video ran today on my last.fm radio. It reminded me of this video a former student of Island Coastal recorded - by the way Rosh, if you read this, thanks so much! I remember memories of the float training crystal clear when I hear that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[High Final 25]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This picture is here to attract people and because Pilatus Porters on high final look badass. Heading straight down to earth and put down right on the numbers. But can you do that in a Piper Tomahawk? That's the link to this article. Let's find out. On... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Piper Tomahawk]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Finally I went flying! It was two months ago when I decided to validate my FAA certificate. I was confident to do that during the week I came back from Canada. Obviously I was wrong. I will be working on it until January or so. But let's talk about the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Augen wie ein Adler]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bild: Mein Blindenflughund Zorro ist bereit für den Einsatz im Cockpit. "Your eyes are great, tomorrow you gonna fly at the airlines!", sagte mir der Doktor, als ich In den USA noch nicht einmal 10 Stunden Total Time hatte. Und ja, in den USA dürfte ich,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Halfway There]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I found my way though all the paperwork. This is what 'halfway there' means. Every time I think I am done Switzerland has another surprise, another step for me. It is annoying since I don't have a clue how long it takes in the end. What I wanted was a... ]]></description>
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