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Friday night we had dinner with my friend Jayden, who was home for Spring Break with his girlfriend, Corra. Jayden ...
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Spring Break Flight with Jayden

Spring Break Flight with Jayden

/ / flying, Hobbies, N2613L, Personal
Yesterday, I got to do one of the most enjoyable things you can do in aviation! Take someone that has ...
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Intro Flight

Intro Flight

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, N2613L, Personal, rides
Even though it was a cold day, it was a wonderful day for a flight. Richard came along and flew ...
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IFR Currency Flight

IFR Currency Flight

/ / Aviation, flying, gpx, Hobbies, IFR, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
Quick Flights to test out the new transponder ...
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Quick Maintenance Flights

Quick Maintenance Flights

/ / Aviation, flying, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, Year in Review
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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

/ / Aviation, flying, Gaston's, gpx, Hobbies, maps, Personal, tracklog, 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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, Personal, tracklog, 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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, Maintenance, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, Personal, tracklog, 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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, St. Louis, tracklog, 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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Personal, tracklog
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, gpx, Hobbies, maps, N2613L, Ozark Aviators, Personal, tracklog
Thursday I finally earned by instrument rating!  It has been a long time coming,   I can't wait to continue learning ...
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Instrument Rating Unlocked!

Instrument Rating Unlocked!

/ / Aviation, flying, Hobbies, IFR, Life Moment, Personal
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