Pandora Parrot @pandora_parrot@beach.city

Did a little practice flight today. I’m pretty sure another pilot in the pattern was a trans woman student or teacher. One of them complimented my soft field takeoff technique and that made me super happy!

As I flew off, I was seriously thinking of saying “Piper Cherokee departing the pattern says trans rights!”

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I recently had an aviation adventure helping @Norintha move across the country.

https://write.beach.city/pandora-parrot/pandora-moving-services-part-1

I posted about it previously, but just posting once last time in case you missed it!

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My aviation story is finally complete! You can enjoy the entire thing now!

Here's part 5: https://write.beach.city/pandora-parrot/pandora-moving-services-part-5-the-conclusion

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I'm really enjoying writing up my #aviation stories from this adventure.

Here's part 2!

https://write.beach.city/pandora-parrot/pandora-moving-services-part-2

This is the part where having @coda as an autopilot really came in handy. I don't think I made all the right decisions here, but I made a lot of good ones, I think, and I was in constant contact with ATC, Flight Service, and ADS-B data services.

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The first part of my aviation adventure with @Norintha and @coda is up! https://write.beach.city/pandora-parrot/pandora-moving-services-part-1

This is the boring part where I talk about what considerations there were and how I prepared. Next part gets to the action...

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Oy. I did 18 hours of flying between Friday and Sunday. I really wanna write it up, but I've been busy working since then. I might do a write freely post about it. Or I might just post the story on here. What would you prefer?

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Plane is loaded. Tomorrow @Norintha and I go to Reno!

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Made it to Denver. Damn, that was a lot of weather I had to navigate. I’ve never really had to navigate weather on this order before.

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The mission: My friend @Norintha needs a way to move from the Denver, CO area to Reno, NV.

Rejected plan: Flying to her commercial and renting a uhaul type thing involves a lot of driving for over 20 hours.

My plan: For roughly the same cost, I can temporarily convert my airplane into a cargo plane, fly out to her, and haul her stuff to Reno by air.

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Whenever I step outside my comfort zone in aviation and try something a bit more challenging/new than I've done in the past, I get nervous and overplan to compensate.

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Wish me luck, fam. I'm flying out to Denver, Colorado this weekend to help a friend move using my mom van in the sky.

Seriously, though. It's a mom van in the sky, look at how much shit I can put in there, and it's gonna have the back two rows of seats taken out.

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"It's such an adrenaline rush to fly small planes."

- Something I heard expressed twice at the party last night.

Is it? Really? I've always found it to be super relaxing and beautiful. Like going to a beautiful mountain and just looking out at the world, or driving through beautiful scenery.

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Oh oh oh! I flew up to 11,500 feet today! That's the highest I've ever flown!!!!!! New record for me. :D

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Had to move my plane on Sunday to park in transient while they fixed my plane shelter. Got to move it back today. I always feel this kind of... magical tingle every time I jump in that thing.

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On July 4, the 1 year anniversary of starting to fly my own plane on my own, I'm taking @AzureHusky to San Luis Obispo to spend the holiday weekend at a Bed and Breakfast!!!!!!!

Depending on when we fly down there (and if we fly) we might get to watch some fireworks shows form the air. :P

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Tomorrow, I fly to 1O2... For the first time in years! I love flying past that old dormant volcano that is around Clearlake.

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This is an ad I saw on the general aviation supplies store I go to (Sporty's)

It's honestly really great to see this. Normalizing female pilots is so important.

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Here’s another part of it zoomed in. I don’t actually “play” like this a lot when flying, so this was just me having some fun, following some rivers, practicing some maneuvers, etc. #aviation

My flight home from Columbia might have been a bit meandering and silly....

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