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I have REALLY enjoyed my 20 consecutive years rockin’ the Dials (and the Freeway500 Miles) of the Inland Northwest.  So much so, that even though my time with “Half Rock” has concluded, I’m really not going to be that far~ If you’re ever at “The Gates of Hell’s Canyon” and waking up early for a busy day of whitewater, mountain-boarding or jet-boating… look me up at the same frequency I spent the first ten years in this town on. – Give or take a decimal point.

This “Whitewater Adventure” proves to be unique, challenging, fun & dynamic. With loads of opportunity for creativity, personality, and … of-coarse… Wacky listener-phone fun!!! So check back to this website &  sister publication: AV8News.net for current info, show dates & times; Plus those awesome aerials *that are about to become even more striking.

Someday... this'll all be condos.

Spokane & Coeur D’ Alene; I said it everyday; The reason I came here 21 years ago in the first place…. No-matter what station we partied on (Rock106, 105.7 The Peak, 94.5 Half-Rock) no matter what time of day we shared, or events/remotes/fairs/concerts we found ourselves… The reason why “the show” was always the best in town? Because of the best listeners. Your dedication and participation made the highest rated afternoon radio show in the nation! Highest rated Active-Rock format~ All those lives changed, funds raised, pounds of food & toys donated, and trips/tickets…

That’s why I say, and shall never forget;  YOU ROCK!!!

Congrats to Spokane’s very own “Rock Star” MYLES KENNEDY… confirmed to now be in the studio working on the new SOLO CD! Oh and did we say, with the “Guitar hero’s” guitar Hero? SLASH….

That’s too many World Champion Axe-Men for one location. Goodluck and can’ wait to hear it!

(Myles Kennedy a local favorite and only 7-time winner of the Spokane Axe-man Competition. And that was BEFORE he played for Mayfield-4, Citizen Swing, or Alterbridge) He is a great guitarist and a really great guy.

-Geoff

Ronald Hall reunited with his "Valentine" Katherine A. Hall

ALSO, On a sad note; We lost a local racing legend, and founder of Team Hall, Ronald J. Hall earlier this month. Our sympathies go out to “Crew Chief” Mike, Driver Matt Hall, and the entire crew,team/family.  Information of the “ceremony of life” for any who would like to attend, can be found POSTED HERE. He is survived by his equally competitive drivers Mike (formerly our “Nascar” traffic-reporter on the Freeway500) and Matt Hall, of the Northwest Series.  We shall miss seeing Ronnie’s trailer in the Pits.

——– TIME CAPSULE: FIRST HEADLINES ———

• Washington: Pilots rally against Excise Tax Initiative
• Olympia: Airport-Adjacent Land Usage Bill Gains Support
• Tillamook: NW Airshow Changes Date, Expanding.
• Spokane: The R.A.F. “Invades” the Pacific Northwest

We are pleased to debut the brand new AV8NEWS NETWORK. Aviation news and the news MAKERS behind the wings, on a weekly basis. This shall include a worldwide podcast and interviews & discussion featuring pilots, operators, and more. Our first such “guest” Shall be Curt Gurling of  Tillamook Aviation Museum, discussing changes to an expanded “Planes Trains & Automobiles” event now scheduled for later this summer. Thanks for your support~

=Gs=- (and the entire AV8NEWS team)

Race fans, “the Shootout” WAS here! Congrats to TEAM HARVICK and, speaking of De Je’Vue;

…Will Jimmie Johnson just continue his winning streak, for a 4th year? I kind of hope so, it makes my Sundays much more constructive once Jimmy starts crawling up the pack because I then know the day is young, and there’s time to go mow, shop or hit up the grocery store while everybody else is watching Jimmy sit back in cruise control taking naps lap after lap.

People who say “Nascar is boring.. how can you watch cars go around and round in a circle all day?” MUST be  watching Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon exchanging sparkling logo-bright smiles at each other while the rest of the pack tries to apparently stay of their way. I much prefer the old days of Wallace, Earnhardt (The Big E, not so much the little ‘e’ after he shaved his goat-tee) and Jarrett, swapping paint and top 3 positons week after week.

Ahhh wait, but this year, this year is different they say! They’ve thrown a new needle into the Nascar haystack. Down force has been changed, and the front ends have been changed. (to more closely resemble that of a vehicle that looks like one you could actually go out and drive the next day) and so, the battle for “aero-equal” begins anew. This will keep me watching for atleast 25 laps …. Then…. I can go to Home Depot, miss the crowd of Tony Stewart fans, and buy those recessed track lights I’ve been meaning to install, over the next three hours and twenty-six minutes…

While Jimmy… just drives away.

-=Gs=-

(Updated: 02-10-10) In the next issue of IN THIS ISSUE OF THE SPOKANE FLYER: The WPA’s Official Inland-NW News Source… out now!

Mother Nature's Punch Bowl

I’d like to salute INTELLICAST.COM for taking weather graphical depiction into the next generation! I, as professional WX-GEEK, and former “North Idaho Weather-Girl” have had dreams of just such an interface. Full color radar composite with tab overlays for precip, Clouds, vapor, Infra-red & warning boxes. Now, NOAA, NWS, in conjunction with FAA, have undertaken a similar project in the Aviation-Weather data center, and these tools are the next generation for data acquisition and as close to real-time (well, within 10-15 minutes, usually, for we the non-paying customers) as we can get dissemination.

Also good news for we the West Coasters: funding has been approved for a secondary coastal radar, and we shall have a much better picture of those storms developing off the coast or perhaps before “slipping” between the footprints of our old spotty coastal network. I, for one, am very excited; storms like THIS (on right) should be less un-expected .

-=GS=-

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FITTY!!! Old bud & CMS Security-head “Ziggy“ just celebrated his 50th, and that was a blast! (pics posted on Facebook) If you ever got to go back stage with me at ROCK 106 or 94&1/2, you probably have met Chuck at some point, checking to make sure your pass was the right color. By the way, *attention E-bay’ers*… has a large wardrobe of Blue Shirts, in case you need one. He also has a very cool job making really really BIG things now (See elsewhere in this blog) and gets to drive thelittle Taco-Mobile.

WHERE'S YOUR LEG-WARMERS, CHUCK?

We wish him another great 50yrs, but he’s got to lose the picture where he looks like the Bike Cop from RENO-911 (See photo at right).

Then there’s “Nascar crew chief Mike” back in town and wearing his stars and stripes proudly (Thank you for your service, SIR!)

Mike & Merry, We mean Elizabeth!

Mike is doing great and if you are ever buried with “full military honors” chances are good ‘ol Mike will be escorting you, at full attention, off of the airplane and onto the memorial with his top team of drill-staff.  And that’s a wrap on the holidays, now it’s back to work… I’m building a Storm-Tracker 7 Mega-Doppler Super Weather-twenty 10  Graphic.

-=G=-

As we close the book on another great decade Rockin’ the Inland Northwest, Geoff Scott would like to thank our 12,000 visitors (not to mention the 60,000 listeners) to “The Freeway500″ website, with a final countdown.

TOP-10 OF ‘09 FREEWAY500

picture THIS crowd.... only 30X larger!

10. GOING SOLO#11 409
9. ROYAL BLISS 624
9. POP EVIL 704
8. TESLA 814
7. JET BLACK STARE 1,332
6.  HELI-LESSON#5 1,368
5. WASHINGTON PILOTS 1,428
4. IN THIS MOMENT 2,444
3.  SEATTLE SEA GALS 2,512
2. QUEENSRYCHE “AMERICAN SOLDIER” 2,522
1. SAVING ABEL 2,627

Congrats to our “big winners” this year; SAVING ABEL, QUEENSRYCHE, ROYAL BLISS, THE SEA-GALS & WASHINGTON PILOTS! We enjoyed 129,791 ‘hits’ as the site continued to develop, entertain & grow. The NEXT decade proves to be a challenge for today’s terrestrial content providers, however, This website, looks forward to the “expanding threshold” and embraces a larger perspective.

I just hope I’ll be able to say the new year right, without putting an “O” in front of it~

~ Geoff

Honored to have been elected to the WASHINGTON PILOT’S ASSOCIATION/SPOKANE Board of Directors… So, to celebrate; we went flying! (of course) Not quite the challenge of “Contaminated Surfaces” training, this flight on the backside of a cold front Friday night, blustery cold~gusting to 20kts, and shooting some long approaches to the new extended Runway21 at Geiger. For you NON-pilots the crosswind technique is a delicate balance of slipping into the wind with one wing lower, and ‘kicking’ rudder in the opposite direction to maintain lateral stability as to land with one wheel (upwind) aligned with the runway and then rotation follows through on the roll-out. Let’s just say it’s dance on the feet and a careful ballet of cross-control up above… Kind of like the last time I tried to disco.
-=Gs=-

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