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I love to fly the Santa Barbara region with my precious wife Anne in our 172Q named Tripp. Q means it's a regular 1983 Cessna 172 Skyhawk, but with a larger engine that enables us to actually carry four average-sized adults and some baggage. It's only 12% more power, but gives us nearly twice the takeoff performance most of the time and still gets up to 20mpg. Can you tell we love her? Click here to "fly along" on our assorted adventures, or to Contact me directly.

As you can see we also enjoy taking snapshots while I'm in the air and sharing them here, in the EdHat.com Local News section (link for my contributions only), and on my Wikipedia pages. Note that some of my CC-licensed photos on Wikipedia and Wikimedia are smaller versions of identical copyrighted photos here on Flickr.

Check out our blog - including our various Big Adventures flying in every U.S. state except Hawaii, and all the Canadian provinces. We used to also fly a zippy Grumman AA5B named Tiger. We're not rich, it's just that both of those planes are owned by the Santa Barbara Flying Club and that means we could often fly for $95 per hour. We prefer flying half an hour per week rather than buying a couple of lattes a day. Now that we have Tripp, because we're flying more often it's still affordable and we're seeking a partner to share the fun & costs.

Cameras:
*Nikon D40x, Nikon DX AF-S 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 VR
*Canon Poweshot Elph 300HS (Anne's camera)

Editing:
*Apple MacBook (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB)
*GraphicConverter 4.5 (mostly)
*Photoshop CS8 (rarely)
*GIMP (if I ever have time to learn this great free tool).