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Just a simple flight from Front Royal, VA (KFRR) to bring home the plane after its annual inspection. The folks over at Front Royal Aero Services, Inc. do a fantastic job....
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Short night VFR flight to drop off the plane for an oil change. The snow is the leftovers from the "Blizzard of 2010" that dumped 30 inches on Leesburg, VA (KJYO) back on February 5-6....
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Here's my approach and landing at Leesburg, VA (KJYO) after this year's Thanksgiving trek home. OK, OK, so big deal on yet another landing at my home field and not even IMC to make it interesting, right? Sooo, I figured I'd "look out...
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Departing Wrens, GA (65J) after our Thanksgiving holiday. Another beautiful flying day with projected tailwinds in excess of 35 knots at 9000 feet. Those would help turn a 9.5 hour drive into a 3.5 hour flight. It's days like this that help justify...
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Here's our approach and landing at our final destination of Wrens, GA (65J) for this year's Thanksgiving holiday trek home. We got vectored just a bit north of downtown Augusta at 3000ft on the way in. Pretty cool to fly over a city lit up like...
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This is our departure from Florence, SC (KFLO) for this year's Thanksgiving holiday flight to Georgia. At least there were other planes around this evening. The night before had been ghostly. Weather for departure was: 03006KT 10 CLR 14/7 A3011. We...
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This is my landing in Florence, SC (KFLO) for this year's Thanksgiving holiday trek home. My brother just bought a new home in Florence and we stopped by to check it out on our way to Georgia. This is my first landing in KFLO. Weather was: 01006KT...
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This is my evening departure from Leesburg, VA (KJYO). This is my favorite time to fly - dusk - when the earth turns various shades of blue, the sky pinks, and the lights come on to highlight civilization. No intercom audio on this one. (I'm thinking...
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Here's my night IMC approach into Leesburg, VA (KJYO) coming home from the Virginia Tech football game. The cloud layer was about 3000 feet thick and had presented us a solid undercast ever since climbing out over Blacksburg . We broke out right on...
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This is the last of a series of captures showing what it's like departing Blacksburg, VA (KBCB) after a Virginia Tech football game. A cloud layer rolled in during the game giving us a solid overcast 1200 feet over the field. With everybody needing...
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This is the second of a series of captures showing what it's like departing Blacksburg, VA (KBCB) after a Virginia Tech football game. A cloud layer rolled in during the game giving us a solid overcast 1200 feet over the field. With everybody needing...
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This is the first of a series of captures showing what it's like departing Blacksburg, VA (KBCB) after a Virginia Tech football game. A cloud layer rolled in during the game giving us a solid overcast 1200 feet over the field. With everybody needing...
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IFR in VMC approach to Blacksburg, VA (KBCB) . I cancelled IFR a few miles northeast of the airport, then banked over the Virginia Tech stadium while in the pattern to land runway 12....
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My departure from Leesburg, VA (KJYO) en route to Blacksburg, VA (KBCB) for the Virginia Tech football game. Captures AWOS, clearance delivery, IFR departure from the non-towered field, and climbout through the cloud layer....
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This video is one of a series captured during a recent IFR currency/proficiency flight. I departed home base in Leesburg, VA (KJYO) and flew approaches into Charlottesville, VA (KCHO) , Orange, VA (KOMH) , Culpeper, VA (KCJR) and back into home. This...
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This video is one of a series captured during a recent IFR currency/proficiency flight. I departed home base in Leesburg, VA (KJYO) and flew approaches into Charlottesville, VA (KCHO) , Orange, VA (KOMH) , Culpeper, VA (KCJR) and back into home. This...
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This video is one of a series captured during a recent IFR currency/proficiency flight. I departed home base in Leesburg, VA (KJYO) and flew approaches into Charlottesville, VA (KCHO) , Orange, VA (KOMH) , Culpeper, VA (KCJR) and back into home. This...
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This video is one of a series captured during a recent IFR currency/proficiency flight. I departed home base in Leesburg, VA (KJYO) and flew approaches into Charlottesville, VA (KCHO) , Orange, VA (KOMH) , Culpeper, VA (KCJR) and back into home. This...
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This video is one of a series captured during a recent IFR currency/proficiency flight. I departed home base in Leesburg, VA (KJYO) and flew approaches into Charlottesville, VA (KCHO) , Orange, VA (KOMH) , Culpeper, VA (KCJR) and back into home. This...
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This is my departure from Buffalo, NY (KBUF) after visiting family for the weekend. This video captures ATIS, clearance delivery, taxi, takeoff and handoff to departure....
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My first exposure to land and hold short (LAHSO)....
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This is my approach and landing to Manteo, NC (KMQI) for a weekend at the beach. The weather was forecast for the typical scattered afternoon thundershower. As we neared Elizabeth City, NC (KECG) , Washington Center (ZDC) asked me to let him know when...
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This is the return flight home from Georgia after dropping off my brother in Elkin, NC (KZEF) . There was extensive scattered to broken cumulus across a wide swath of southern Virginia which made for some fun in the air....
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This is my departure from Rutherfordton, NC (KFQD) after a short bio break. I'd cancelled my original flight plan from 65J to KZEF when we diverted to KFQD and this video captures my airborne attempt to get a new IFR clearance to finish the flight...
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While enroute from Wrens, GA (65J) to Elkin, NC (KZEF) we determined the need for a bio break. I cancelled IFR over Rutherfordton, NC (KFQD) and slipped in for a landing. The video picks up just as I started my descent from 7000 feet into KFQD....
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