The Estes Park Aviation Club meeting this month will take place on Wednesday, May 14, at the newly renovated American Legion. We will meet informally at 5:30 p.m. for optional food and drink from the Duncan’s Diner expanded menu, a great time to socialize and swap flying stories. The meeting and program will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Our presentation will be about Computer Flight Simulation. Our speaker is Mike Davis, a local resident and new member of our organization, who is a self-described “Computer Flight Simulator fanatic since the mid-1970s.” Although not a licensed pilot, Mike regularly “flies” his computer all over the country, and even the world. He has some 90 different types of aircraft loaded into his system and can “fly” trips in many varied conditions, or even in real time weather scenarios.
Mike Davis is a forensic chemist by trade, a CSI before the TV series, who retired from the Missouri State Highway Patrol Crime Lab, Carthage, Missouri in 2010. He also served as a deputy sheriff on weekends for 20 years with the Newton County Sheriff’s Department. Mike volunteers several times a week in the RMNP, and he and his wife have lived full time here in Estes Park for five years…