The view: Wildfires in Oregon
The pilot: Chad Chase
The airplane: Cirrus SR22
The mission: Santa Barbara, California (SBA), to Portland, Oregon (PDX).
The memory: This was one of three Oregon fires we had to zigzag through to stay out of the smoke. This was the small one.
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The view: A lonely airplane sits under the moonlight
The pilot: Kevin Knight
The airplane: Cessna 172
The mission: Home to Bremerton, Washington (PWT), from Phoenix.
The memory: After taking a commercial flight back to SEATAC, I was dropped off at PWT by a friend. While walking to my hangar at 10pm to retrieve my car, I saw this lonely 172 on the flight line with the moon illuminating it. The temperature was 33 degrees F, extremely humid, and really uncomfortable. Like me, I suspect the plane wanted to warm up and head somewhere else. Even planes get lonely.
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The view: Filtered sunrise reflection on the mouth of the Brunswick River
The pilot: Chris Granelli
The airplane: 1981 Cessna Centurion 210N
The mission: Early morning flight from North Carolina to Florida for lunch, afternoon tee time, and dinner with a friend.
The memory: This was a 24-hour trip… I cannot imagine a non-GA life. The final portion of the stricken cargo ship Golden Ray, which beached there in September 2019 (just days after my family and I finished a week’s vacation there) can be seen inside the “ropes,” mid-mouth of the channel. It was gone two days later, per another friend (esteemed aviation writer E. Cox), who noted as much on approach to SSI runway 24 (seen in left of photo) in his company’s Falcon 900, ending an almost two-year “slice & dice” removal project. Jekyll Island (09J) can be seen in right of photo.
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The view: Trenton-Robbinsville area, New Jersey
The pilot: Parvez Dara
The airplane: Beechcraft G36 Bonanza
The mission: IFR flight
The memory: Return flight from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), descending towards destination at Ocean County, New Jersey (MJX).
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The view: Willamette Falls (on the Willamette river) and Mount Hood in the background
The pilot: Steve Splonskowski
The airplane: Taylorcraft F-19
The mission: pretty fall day of flying in the Portland, Oregon, area
The memory: the wind had been blowing for days, but we finally got a break and headed out flying — great late day light and autumn colors
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The view: Flying over fields in Victoria, Australia, after heavy rains
The pilot: Neil Sidwell
The airplane: ICP Savannah
The mission: My first flight over regional Victoria after lifting of COVID restrictions
The memory: Yellow canola, brown ploughed fields, green grass, and dark green wooded hills in the background melding into a patchwork quilt.
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The view: My 1954 PA-22 Pacer, after landing at Las Acacias, Colombia (SKAI), elevation 8432 ft.
The pilot: Santiago Arbelaez
The aircraft: 1952 PA-22 Pacer, HK-876-G
The mission: Flying from Medellin to Nemocón, from the central branch to the eastern branch of the Colombian Andes, at flight level 125.
The memory: Tell the date: it could be the same picture anywhere from 1954 to 2021. Fortunately this time it was my flight!
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The view: Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany
The pilot: Alexander Steinhorst
The airplane: Aquila A211
The mission: A recreational flight north along the river Rhine.
The memory: Encountering two hot-air balloons while cruising north in calm but misty air, enjoying the mild evening sun rays piercing through the clouds.
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The view: Lenticular clouds over Reno Stead Airport
The pilot: George Catalano
The airplanes: Race planes
The mission: 2021 Reno Air Races
The memory: At the Reno Air Races this year we had these spectacular lenticular clouds forming over Stead Field from the early afternoon on. Races got cancelled with sustained winds blowing 35 and gusts to 48.
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The view: Sound Sunset
The pilot: Frank Facchetti
The airplane: 2006 Cirrus SR20
The mission: Flying back to HYA from ACK
The memory: I am a lucky man. I live on Cape Cod and had a dinner date on Nantucket with my 8-year old granddaughter. Flying home, we encountered a beautifully calm summer evening and this view over Nantucket Sound. Martha’s Vineyard is visible in the left of the photo and Cape Cod to the right. With sights like this I am bound to piqued her interest in the wonders of aviation… I hope!
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