Pandora Parrot @pandora_parrot@beach.city

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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Noticed the weather around San Jose was degrading so we got out of there while we still had a chance and flew to Bakersfield for the night. We will do the Grand Canyon flight tomorrow morning!!!

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"Cheap" planes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sly6UWNrqoU

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Tonight's going to be a music and flying evening

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I think I need to work on my crosswind landings. I keep experiencing a wing rise after touching down and its annoying.

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Some beautiful photographs from the flight. #aviation

THEN they told me they'd "call my base" which means they'd tell me when to turn towards the airport, and they completely forgot about me and I had to remind them when I had maybe a minute or two before I was gonna start flying into the mountains. I came around almost straight into another plane landing on the parallel runway and didn't get my landing clearance until I was almost on the ground... AND I had to remind them about that too!

WHAT A DAY!

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And THEN I was entering the downwind for Reid Hillview just as another plane was turning crosswind to downwind for them. ATC told me to hold my altitude, but I climbed a bit and kept them off my elft just to be safe and keep an eye on them, since we were basically directly on top of each other.

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The trip back from Half Moon Bay was interesting the other day. As I crossed over San Jose airport, a twin cessna was entering the pattern to land there. But ATC told me "proceed direct Reid Hillview" despite that course putting me straight in front of the twin. So I followed behind them. I was practically *in* the downwind for SJC behind the twin.

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They called back saying "Why are you landing 31? The winds are 320."

I responded "Well, I generally like landing into the wind."

They came back "Yeah, so that's 13."

I didn't respond and just kept flying with my eyes a little more open. After several minutes of silence, they came back on "Oh right. Making right traffic for 31"

I said "I was wondering about that." and reported in my position again.

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Thing that happened a while back:

I was approaching E16, South County airport, and got the winds showing as 320. Then I heard a plane call in.

"South County Traffic, Nblahblah is 6 miles south of hte field, maneuvering for 13"

So that's weird. Cuz that's landing the opposite direction of what you should do. So I called in with my report.

"South County Traffic, NPANDY is 5 miles north of the field, will be maneuvering right 45 for 31 South County"

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I was explaining some #aviation related stuff to @Catgoatraptortegu the other day and I was somewhat surprised to realize just how much I know about aviation nowadays, as I described thing after thing.

I guess I've learned a bunch about it.

But holy shit, I still have so much to learn.

Wow. My flight experience has been growing so much this year.

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In order to fight against “get there iris,” I always make sure that literally every flight I do has a backup plan. I tell friends that ask me for rides “Do not rely on me.” I have plans for what to do in the event of an issue setup ahead of time so that I reduce the pressure to “press on” when something is wrong.

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My god, I'm gonna fill my plane with 5 people this weekend...

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OMG I love #aviation! I especially love taking kids and other new folks on their first flights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzQoAOvLZZU

Saw this on Facebook and had to share. #aviation #joke

https://beach.city/media/ScRI9zPrFOnzNYpJKSg