Hobbies

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Quick Flights to test out the new transponder ...
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Quick Maintenance Flights

Quick Maintenance Flights

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal
Airplane In Progress Our club airplane had the transponder encoder go bad, so we elected to go ahead an purchase, ...
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Airplane Down for new Transponder

Airplane Down for new Transponder

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal, Transponder
I have always loved being a pilot. When we moved to West Plains eleven years ago, I lost access to ...
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2018. The year in flying

2018. The year in flying

/ / 2018, Aviation, flying, Hobbies, Personal
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Travel and Adventure 2018

Travel and Adventure 2018

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, Personal, Photography
Erica and I flew down to Gaston's to see one of my co-workers and his family, and have brunch. The ...
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Gaston's Brunch

Gaston’s Brunch

/ / Aviation, flying, Gaston's, Hobbies, Personal, Travel
Our friend Taylor had some friends coming home for Thanksgiving that were interested in taking an airplane ride and seeing ...
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Thanksgiving Eagle Flight

Thanksgiving Eagle Flight

/ / Aviation, Eagle Flight, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal
Yesterday while flying with Richard and Bessie, we discovered that our transponder was not reporting altitude.  After getting home I ...
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Check out the Transponder

Check out the Transponder

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal
It had been a couple of weeks since I had flown, and my in-laws had the airplane scheduled on a ...
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Springfield flight with the in-laws

Springfield flight with the in-laws

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal
Blanchard Spring Bridges After a long day flying Young Eagles yesterday, we decided to make a Jeep run down into ...
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Late Fall colors in Arkansas

Late Fall colors in Arkansas

/ / Drone Photography, Hobbies, Personal, Photography, Travel
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Blanchard Spring

Blanchard Spring

/ / Blanchard Springs, Hobbies, Personal, Photography, Gallery
Busy day.  We flew 14 young eagles and 5 adults today at EAA 1218.  ...
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Young Eagles Day

Young Eagles Day

/ / Aviation, EAA 1218, flying, Hobbies, Personal, Young Eagle
We flew the airplane back from maintenance today. Weather was good, but the tail end of some marginal VFR was ...
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Fall Colors flight back from maintenance

Fall Colors flight back from maintenance

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal
Our part of Missouri is blessed to have a wonderful combination of nature and history. It is best on display ...
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Missouri's wonderful fall colors

Missouri’s wonderful fall colors

/ / Fall, Hobbies, Mills, Personal, Photography, Gallery
Saturday was a planned day for an instrument technician to come to Ava and do transponder, pitot/static inspections. Our club ...
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Complex and High Performance

Complex and High Performance

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, Personal
I got up the morning after twin flight and headed to the airport to check on the blown out tire ...
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Owner Assisted Inspection

Owner Assisted Inspection

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, Maintenance, N2613l, Personal
My friend Mike called the other afternoon with an itch to go flying. The weather was awesome, and we had ...
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A little twin time

A little twin time

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, Personal, Twin Engine
We had planned to do some flying over my birthday weekend last weekend, but the weather was awful.  This week, ...
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Beautiful day for the zoo

Beautiful day for the zoo

/ / Aviation, flying, GA Travel, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal, St. Louis, Travel, zoo
The airplane was due for an inspection, and we had a check ride coming up for one of our members ...
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Night repositioning

Night repositioning

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Personal
On Saturday we had a work day for the airplane and hangar.  I had volunteered to smoke some meat for ...
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Work Day and a Quick Flight

Work Day and a Quick Flight

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613l, Ozark Aviators, Personal
On our way to Louisville we stopped on the way in Paducah.  They were getting ready for Dragon boat races ...
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Dragon attacks Paducah!

Dragon attacks Paducah!

/ / Dragon, Hobbies, Paducah, Personal, Photography, Image, Travel, Travel