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I finished my last flight of first year at Selkirk with spins under the hood. Recovering without outside reference was a real lesson in trusting instruments.

I spent a couple of days sniffing CAN bus data on my car and figured out how instrument brightness, media controls, and lighting are communicated.

Got back into practicing spins during upper-air work and remembered how much fun they are! Nothing gets the adrenaline going quite like it.

I flew my first real cross country from Castlegar to Golden through Rogers Pass. 4.4 hours of Hobbs time, self-serve fuel in Cranbrook, and incredible views!

A few friends and I visited the NavCanada tower at Castlegar. We watched IFR clearances, weather obs, and Jazz traffic from a whole new perspective.

My under-dash LED strips finally fell apart, so I started planning a full RGB lighting controller for the car with ten LED channels and five EL channels.

We pitched up and then forward on the way back to the airport to get a moment of free fall. Watching it happen never gets old!

On a mutual flight as FO, we took a detour around Mt. Gimli in Valhalla Provincial Park. The views from up there were absolutely stunning!