Latest posts tagged with #avsky on Bluesky
An oval glass coffee table covered with flight planning materials. A large seal-point mitted ragdoll cat is lying on them. She's helping.
#caturday
#avsky
Paper sectional, nav log, kneeboard, airport diagrams. Yeah, that was a while ago. Of course Charlie had to help.
There's a Cessna 172N up for raffle by an aviation education org. Good birbs, I've flown a few. However, this particular airframe has 18,400 hours. For reference, most trainers retire around 8,000 hours after being abused by stoodnts. 18,400 is airliner numbers. #avsky
A single-panel cartoon of a Piper Apache (a small twin-engine plane) in flight. The right engine is secured while the left is running. The pilot says to his passenger, "I keep telling you, I can't turn that one on until I get a multi-engine license (sic)."
I mean, at least he's flying on the critical engine, so give him a point for systems knowledge. #avsky
THIS. This this this. All of it, every single word. Getting the tw was absolutely the single best (and most fun) thing I've done in 25 years of flying. #avsky #tailwheel
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But it is, to an even greater degree than the sea, terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect. #avsky
*sighs and updates lottery wish list* #avsky #dehavilland
Ruth Nichols standing on the side of her plane
2/23/1901 — b. Ruth Nichols, American aviatrix, record setting daredevil. First woman to receive an intl hydroplane license. Set 35+ wmn firsts in #aviation; only wmn ever to simultaneously hold the female pilot #worldrecords for speed,altitude +distance #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AvSky #SciSky
Lilian Bader in uniform smiling and saluting | Elizabeth Okoh Photography
2/18/1918 — b. Lilian Bader, English aircraftwoman, servicewoman, educator. Early black woman to join the British Armed Forces #WWII. A leading woman in #aviation who rose up in rank; early female air force instrument repairer #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #AvSky #HistSci #woc
Hilda Hewlett aka Grace Bird
2/17/1864 — b. Hilda Hewlett (Grace Bird), English aviator, motoring enthusiast, early #aviation entrepreneur. The first British wmn to earn a pilot’s license (1911); co-founder of an early British flying sch (1910) + founder, #WWI #military #aircraft manufacturer #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AvSky
A series of twisty little valleys, all alike, covered by low stratus. You are likely to be eaten by terrain.
#avsky
Good thing I'm not flying into any of these valleys.
Speaking of aviation professionals, congrats to @julietbravofoxmedia.com on joining avbrief.com. #avsky
A close-up head-on view of a Piper Cherokee, a small, single-engine airplane. The spinner and cowling top half are blue. The cowling also has a copper stripe, and the wheel pants are white with matching blue and copper stripes. An LED landing light is on prominent display.
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID 🚨
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Can confirm, this pump works a treat. My now-previous A&P "serviced" the mains at last annual and set the right to 2.25" and the left to 3.0". $45 pump, 15 minutes of pilot-approved labor and a 2-minute logbook entry later, done and dusted. #avsky #pa28
1) Then where tf can anything park? How about the Biff crash two months ago, where the clipped the approach lights?
2) LEARS DON'T HAVE FUCKING DRAG CHUTES
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Jerry Mock was the first woman to fly around the world solo in 1964! Despite her amazing accomplishment + record-setting flight records, the media dubbed her “The Flying Housewife” www.cnn.com/travel/artic...
#womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AvSky #aviation
Bessie Coleman standing on wheel of plane | Airfields, Nassau, Long Island, NY
1/26/1892 — b. Bessie Coleman, American aviator, stunt pilot. “Brave Bessie”; the first Af-Am woman to fly a plane + hold a pilot’s license. The first American woman to earn an international pilot’s license(1921). Intl Women’s Sports HOF (1992) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AvSky #aviation #woc #BHM
Willa Brown Coffey sitting in the cockpit of her plane
1/22/1906 — b. Willa Brown Coffey, American aviator. The first Af-Am woman to earn a pilot license (1938); the first Af-Am member, Civil Air Patrol. Co-founder, Natl Airmen’s Assn of America and the Coffey Sch of Aeronautics to train Af-Am aviators #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #aviation #AvSky #woc
A copy of "Success on the Step: Flying With Kenmore Air" by C Marin Faure.
I have *got* to get my seaplane rating. #avsky
Instrument panel of a Cessna 120. It has a very old non-adjustable altimeter (basically a barometer) with a speech bubble saying "Fuck your feelings LOL." Because it's an insensitive altimeter. That was a pune or play on words.
#avsky
#ThatWasAPuneOrPlayOnWords
(check the alt text if you don't get it)
Regarding the Signature QTPods card reader network outage: My sysadmin SWAG is that someone fuckered DNS.
It's ALWAYS DNS.
#avsky
The weather in PHX right now is absolutely flawless. Perfect day for flying and I desperately need to be off the ground. Except that my birb is based at a towered airport, and, well. *gestures vaguely*
#avsky
Approaching Sedona Airport from the south. A mountainous high desert landscape and flawlessly blue sky.
One more bucket list airport checked off. #KSEZ #Sedona #avsky
Flightradar24 screenshot showing normal commercial and general aviation traffic
ADSB exchange data showing predator drone flight path
If all you look at is flightradar24, you wouldn’t know there’s a predator drone up over Tucson tonight, which some might find interesting information. (It also doesn’t usually show the fighter jets.) ADSB exchange gives you that extra layer. #avgeek #avsky #aviation
