Looks like the news venues have realized that people are plain sick of bad news. Or maybe it’s because pups (and pilots :^) are particularly photogenic. Whatever the cause, Pilots N Paws continues to garner positive press from the network news stations to local newspapers. It couldn’t have happened to a better organization.

News highlights:

• Pilots N Paws helps reunite a soldier with the pup he adopted from Afghanistan. (ABC News)

• “Making a Difference” (NBC Nightly News)

• A Paw and a Prayer: Pilots Save Shelter Animals.  (MSNBC)

• Unwanted Pets Get Second Chance (Good Morning America)

• Volunteers Pilot Dogs to New Homes (WRAL)

• Wally the Flying Dog (Kentucky Living)

• Dogs Prayers Answered by People with Wings (Newsobserver.com)

Our new SR22.

It’s heeeeere!

Nearly three long months after signing the deal, my partners and I have finally picked up our shiny new(-ish) Cirrus SR22 in Duluth. Yippee! Taking delivery of an airplane was a new experience for me, and VERY exciting.

The first look at our airplane in its pristine hangar at Cirrus was almost shocking — it looked SO good, with its gleaming new paint and fresh graphics! In fact, I may have actually jumped up and down and clapped my hands. (OK, I admit it, that’s exactly what I did.)

In the end, we spent a bit more time in Duluth than we had planned, as there was a checklist of items we requested be changed or fixed. We were willing to wait for the fixes… in fact, none of us was actually willing to leave Duluth without the airplane. After a night on the town and the next day spent waiting in the customer lounge… our plane was finally ready to go home to Chicago.

Did I mention… Yippee!