I showed up to Lunken today with my flight plan prepared only to find out that there were slight changes in plans…. well, major changes in plans…. complete changes in plans. Not only were we changing locations of our cross country, but we were going to be flying a four-seater Piper Cherokee with a passenger [...]

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Yesterday was a gorgeous day. I had such a fun time flying! If you normally follow my flight lessons, you have probably noticed an absence in blogs. Yesterday I went up for the first time in about two weeks. Between iffy weather last week and being sick, I just never got the chance to fly. [...]

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This lesson last Wednesday was just review. We reviewed flight plans on the ground, then went up and reviewed maneuvers. I forgot how much I liked practicing maneuvers… especially steep turns. When you get all the G’s pushing down on you while you’re in a 45 degree bank for a 360 turn, its a little [...]

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Apparently I’m too ‘churchy’ to be friends with some people. While trying to organize a group of friends to go somewhere I find out that one person already has plans with an old high school friend. I know this person, we were friends growing up, went to the same church, in some of the same [...]

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So when you think of a redneck you think of what? – bonfires on driveways – big fold-out lawn chairs with foot rests – tiki-torches – beers and margaritas – playing UNO on a flipped upside-down recycle bin – and (cool) cowboy hats bought from Meijer… Yes? No? Well that was us tonight. Dan and [...]

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