Are you ready to fly an approach in IMC with one hand, while sucking a bottle of trigger-release, high-flow oxygen with the other? Our dog, Wally, sensed it first. It makes perfect sense, since a canine's sense of smell is thousands of times better than a human's. Wally always enjoyed flying in our Malibu, but when we upgraded to a 1976 King Air E-90 in November 2000 (after an engine failure at night in the Malibu; see "Twenty Minutes of Terror," August 2000 IFR), Wally was reluctant to fly in it. He panted nervously during all flights, as if there wasn't enough air to breathe. We should have taken the cue.
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