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I had that WANT to fly and I used my callsign for the first time, which was fun. ADS-B exchange registered it correctly so I assume I entered it into my transponder correctly. It was pretty gusty on the ground but otherwise the flying was pretty smooth! I tried out a GPS approach to get familiar with the instrumentation in this aircraft and everything works as expected which is always a good thing.

I've been making a list of pretty much every flying event within 150nm of my location and this is going to be a summer of a lot of flying to those events. This weekend I'll be flying Young Eagles and then over to Waupaca (KPCZ) for their fly-in and car show in the afternoon!

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View from inside the cockpit of an airplane in a 30 degree left bank. The instruments are visible and in focus while the outside is tilted and blurry.

Looking out over the cowling on a plane towards an orange sunset with crepuscular rays.

Aircraft parked at fuel pumps with the sun setting behind it making a nicely lit golden hour aircraft photo of a C172 Skyhawk

ADS-B exchange website showing historical track of my flight tonight overlaid on a VFR sectional map.

Bonus Photo of the Day 2 6th February 2025.

PH-JNA, Cessna 172P Skyhawk II, at Rotterdam Airport, 18th October 1993.

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Side view of a red, high-winged, single propellor-engined light aircraft parked facing to the left and slightly away from the camera.
The plane has thin yellow stripes running along the body and tail.
The registration is on the lower rear fuselage in yellow, only the first part, "PH-" is visible, the rest hidden by the horizontal stabiliser.
The plane is casting a deep shadow on the ground in the foreground, while the ground in the background is brightly lit by bright sunshine.
Trees line the skyline, under bright but hazy skies.

Me: "hey... it's been a while since I've flown the Skyhawk and I want to carry out some passenger flights the next days. Can we..."

FI: "Sure. Let's go."

...

FI: "....get these people on board and go!"

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I have reason to be in Corvallis, Oregon next week for five hours, so I booked a (re)Discovery flight in a Cessna 172 at Corvallis Aero Service.

WX might be iffy for the day I am going to be there, but it ought to be fun to see how much rust has developed since I last flew as PIC in 2016.

And yes, I will be practicing on my #XPlane #flightsim in the 172SP both steam and G1000 panel to get the feel for the plane again.

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Now that I had my fun earlier today with the “Trump Asleep in a Courtroom” prompt on https://deepai.org, I thought I’d give it a real test using my usual “Jesus Flying a Cessna Airplane” prompt.

It failed hilariously. Who can possible think this garbage technology is ready for prime time?

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Went to update my Adobe Creative Cloud and found their attempt at AI, something I did not know about called Firefly.

Did my usual test phrase of “Jesus Flying a Cessna Airplane” and yep, it failed miserably. If Adobe can’t get this right, maybe AI image generators are just a joke.

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I flew from KATW to KIMT today. Saw a Ercoupe on the ramp that looked pretty neat. Otherwise it was a windy and bumpy day. My flight back was mostly with the sun blinding me which wasn't great. Had a close encounter with a hawk of some kind too that I didn't see until it went under my wing. I probably would have won that fight but no need to find out. I always forget how much forest Northern Wisconsin is (all of it).

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An Ercoupe sitting on the ramp at Iron Mountain airport. The H tail shape caught my eye so I had to go over and look at it.

The sun is lighting up smudges on the window of the Skyhawk. The focus is brought in because of this so the dirty window is in focus and the wing / landscape behind it is blurry.

Skyhawk N22271 sitting on the ramp at Iron Mountain airport. The high wing aircraft is white with red stripes and reminds me of a bowling shoe.

A lake with a river carving open water through the ice. All of this surrounded by forest.

Some Cessna flying is always a good idea.
Hello, last patches of snow! 👋🏻

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View out of a cockpit window. Alps. Some snow. Wing strut of a high wing plane.

After several days of trying to fly the Cirrus SF50 jet in my #XPlane #flightsim, there just seems to be a number of glitches. Twice tonight while trying to fly KHND (Henderson in Vega$) to KASE (Aspen), the program abruptly quit in the same spot. The other night, while normally burning 100GPH of fuel, it was burning 350GPH.

So while it is far less speedy, the Laminar #Cessna 172 #Skyhawk continues to be fully rock solid, so that’ll be my ride for a while.

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EI-BZU, Douglas DC8-71, Translift Airways, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time between April and December 1993, as seen from Ringway Road.

D-IBER, Beech 300 Super King Air 300LW, taking off from Hamburg Airport, 26th October 1993.

OO-VLN, Fokker F50, VLM, taking off from London City Airport, 1st November 1994.

F-GKIS, Dassault Falcon 20E, at Nice Airport, 9th October 1996, taken from the beach by the CAP3000 shopping centre.

G-BNTP, Cessna 172N Skyhawk, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 9th May 2016.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/01/25/photo-of-the-day-25th-january-2024/

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Side view of a white and grey, 4 engined jet airliner, flying from left to right at a low altitude with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is just about to land, with cloudy light blue skies filling the rest of the frame.

Side view from below of a cream and dark blue twin engined bizprop taking off against a grey sky.

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner with a thick yellow stripe running along the body, seconds after taking off from a runway, under a dirty grey-blue sky.

Side view of a white, twin engined bizjet, with it's wheels lowered and flaps deployed from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is just about to land, with a pal;e blue sky filling the rest of the frame.

A4-M Skyhawk 2 This particular A-4 is shown at the Rhode Island Air Show, Quonset, Rhode Island, USA. It is finished in the colours of the United States Marine Corps. #skyhawk #A4 #RhodeIslandAirShow #RhodeIsland #Quonset #USA #avgeek #aviationlovers #aviation #USMC #UnitedStatesMarineCorps

Further discovery in the #XPlane X1000 system (identical to G1000). If you leave the Nav airport info screen open, it automagically links your plane to the nearest airport as you fly enroute, showing distance, runways and frequencies. Nice thing to have along for the ride.

Now if it would just list the price of the hamburgers along the route, wouldn’t THAT be special? (OMG, am I turning into The Church Lady?)

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Made a quick trip over to Boise from Eugene tonight, with routing specifically to get me a good look at Mt. Hood with this new and improved graphics in my #Xplane #flightsim re-install.

When parked, it looked like a Cirrus SF50 convention, there were five parked near me plus 1 more out of this frame.

Going to load the Cessna 172SP up with spuds and head back later in night IFR over the Cascades and eastern Oregon Wallowas.

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I was out playing in the stormy #ORWX tonight in my #XPlane #flightsim, flying from up in the Dalles (Columbia Gorge…hello crosswinds!) back to Eugene (KEUG).

When I arrived in heavy rain back at my real-life old hangar (the closest one to the runway in the infamous Lane Ducks row), some goober in another 172SP had poached my spot because of the precip.

One call to Airport Operations and he was chained down back out on the ramp.

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SkyHawk in winter wonderland.
This view never gets old. Never.

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Who says you can’t land a Cessna 172SP on an aircraft #carrier? I just dropped in to visit the fine men and women of the USS #XPlane and stopped before the last arresting cable.

After tying down between a couple of fighter jets below deck, I am going to chow down at the mess hall, I hear they are having Chipped Beef, cob corn and roasted NoDak potatoes. Not a bad menu for the middle of the ocean.

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One airport that always stumped me in my IFR traianing was Roseburg, OR (KRBG). It has a tricky VOR-A approach out of the nearby mountains.

Flew the RNAV into there tonight in my #XPlane #flightsim, and when I parked I realized they were having a freakin’ Cessna 172SP fly-in. Maybe there were pancakes and #bacon involved?

My old 172SP with “classic" paint scheme looked like the vintage bird on the ramp.

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One of the things my #XPlane #flightsim never got right in my opinion was the brightness of landing lights. They have always been very dim, and at night you do not see the runway until damned near over the numbers.

Last night I finally found the settings for this and tweaked my usual #Cessna 172SP so now it has very wide and bright landing lights. Not real-world, but I can see the whole runway now.

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