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  1. It is occurring to me now that, if I had filmed this, the script would be exactly the kind of thing you'd hear on just about every YouTube aviation video. It would basically be:

    "Today, my wife and I are taking our little RV-9 up to Oregon to meet with an agent to sell our house. It's a 10 hour drive, or a 4 hour flight. Clearly we should drive."

    (and for the return trip)

    "The next day, after meeting and signing documents (and other meetings, because we both have day jobs), we took a rideshare back to the airport, loaded up and took off. This time, there wasn't much of a marine layer, so we flew over the coast.

    [...]

    This kind of last-minute single-day trip is really only possible with GA. It would have been very expensive to book 2 commercial round-trip tickets, plus there's just not that many flights for where we used to live. In less time than it would have taken to drive one way, we were able to make the round trip in our plane.

    Thanks for following along, please remember to like and subscribe".

    This is kind of making fun of how similar a lot of YouTube GA content is, but also... the point of those videos is not really the story/why behind the flight, it's the flight itself. I wonder if some creators just have templates for their scripts, and plug in different values for location, time, distance, etc. (Or rather, they used to do that and have since moved to having llms write their scripts)

    Also, I 100% did want to film this, but didn't because I don't yet have a source of power for external cameras. The external one would have died about 2 hours into the flight, and that one provides the best-looking shots.

    #aviation #avgeek #GeneralAviation

  2. It is occurring to me now that, if I had filmed this, the script would be exactly the kind of thing you'd hear on just about every YouTube aviation video. It would basically be:

    "Today, my wife and I are taking our little RV-9 up to Oregon to meet with an agent to sell our house. It's a 10 hour drive, or a 4 hour flight. Clearly we should drive."

    (and for the return trip)

    "The next day, after meeting and signing documents (and other meetings, because we both have day jobs), we took a rideshare back to the airport, loaded up and took off. This time, there wasn't much of a marine layer, so we flew over the coast.

    [...]

    This kind of last-minute single-day trip is really only possible with GA. It would have been very expensive to book 2 commercial round-trip tickets, plus there's just not that many flights for where we used to live. In less time than it would have taken to drive one way, we were able to make the round trip in our plane.

    Thanks for following along, please remember to like and subscribe".

    This is kind of making fun of how similar a lot of YouTube GA content is, but also... the point of those videos is not really the story/why behind the flight, it's the flight itself. I wonder if some creators just have templates for their scripts, and plug in different values for location, time, distance, etc. (Or rather, they used to do that and have since moved to having llms write their scripts)

    Also, I 100% did want to film this, but didn't because I don't yet have a source of power for external cameras. The external one would have died about 2 hours into the flight, and that one provides the best-looking shots.

    #aviation #avgeek #GeneralAviation

  3. 'Überwiegend weiss' #FotoVorschlag

    Kein monochrom!

    Flug in den wolkigen und verschneiten Alpen. Im Vordergrund die Forschungsstation im Jungfraujoch, gleich dahinter (ansatzweise) der Beginn des Aletschgletschers und gross im Hintergrund das Dreieckhorn.

    #aviation #aviationphotography #pilotlife #PrivatePilot #PiperArcher #P28A #TeamLowwing #generalaviation #SwissAlps #Schweiz #switzerland #upinthesky #Alpen #FlyingSwitzerland

  4. 'Überwiegend weiss' #FotoVorschlag

    Kein monochrom!

    Flug in den wolkigen und verschneiten Alpen. Im Vordergrund die Forschungsstation im Jungfraujoch, gleich dahinter (ansatzweise) der Beginn des Aletschgletschers und gross im Hintergrund das Dreieckhorn.

    #aviation #aviationphotography #pilotlife #PrivatePilot #PiperArcher #P28A #TeamLowwing #generalaviation #SwissAlps #Schweiz #switzerland #upinthesky #Alpen #FlyingSwitzerland

  5. "DC-3s To Gather at Flabob Airport" by General Aviation News - DC-3 Society announced it will begin holding an annual Operator Conference with the first Dec 4-6, 2026 at Flabob Airport #KRIR in Riverside CA. Public displays on Dec 5-6 weekend. Flabob is the home of EAA Chapter 1 and a very active aviation community. generalaviationnews.com/2026/0 #GenAv #GeneralAviation #aviation #avgeek

  6. "DC-3s To Gather at Flabob Airport" by General Aviation News - DC-3 Society announced it will begin holding an annual Operator Conference with the first Dec 4-6, 2026 at Flabob Airport #KRIR in Riverside CA. Public displays on Dec 5-6 weekend. Flabob is the home of EAA Chapter 1 and a very active aviation community. generalaviationnews.com/2026/0 #GenAv #GeneralAviation #aviation #avgeek

  7. "12 dead in crash of plane on skydiving outing in Missouri, authorities say" by @AssociatedPress - A skydiving plane crashed after takeoff in Butler, Missouri killing the pilot & 11 passengers. The plane was a Pacific Aerospace 750XL single-engine turboprop manufactured in New Zealand. This will be investigated by NTSB. Skydiving operations tend to have higher risks by flying oddly-configured aircraft modified to let people jump. apnews.com/article/butler-miss #aviation #GeneralAviation #GenAv #avgeek

  8. "12 dead in crash of plane on skydiving outing in Missouri, authorities say" by @AssociatedPress - A skydiving plane crashed after takeoff in Butler, Missouri killing the pilot & 11 passengers. The plane was a Pacific Aerospace 750XL single-engine turboprop manufactured in New Zealand. This will be investigated by NTSB. Skydiving operations tend to have higher risks by flying oddly-configured aircraft modified to let people jump. apnews.com/article/butler-miss #aviation #GeneralAviation #GenAv #avgeek

  9. Today I did a flight from Pasco to Pullman to Walla Walla to Pasco again. It was my first solo cross country flight. For the most part it was smooth and I had a good time. Walla Walla was a bit windy to land in but I got to park next to my plane I flew when I started my training. All in all a fun day.

    #GeneralAviation #PrivatePilotTraining #KPSC #KPUW #KALW

  10. Today I did a flight from Pasco to Pullman to Walla Walla to Pasco again. It was my first solo cross country flight. For the most part it was smooth and I had a good time. Walla Walla was a bit windy to land in but I got to park next to my plane I flew when I started my training. All in all a fun day.

    #GeneralAviation #PrivatePilotTraining #KPSC #KPUW #KALW

  11. @flowolf #spracheinderberichterstattung mal wieder. "die Cessna geriet (ohne weiteres Zutun?) in den Flugbereich der Paragleiterin" 😵‍💫🤯

    ...Süddeutschland ist ja auch ein besonders wichtiges Schlagwort bei einer OE-Zulassung 🙈

    ...und das ist ne 182er - oder?

    Was ein Glück im Unglück!! (Oder im unsachgemäßen Umgang mit motorisiertem Gerät.)

    #gleitschirm #gleitschirmfliegen #generalaviation