Another quality year of flying: 88.2 total hours, all in familiar aircraft (and almost all in good ol’ 706) and mostly to familiar places. Highlights included:
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- Two alternator belt failures, including one on Shawna’s first-ever airplane flight
- Another trip to Ohio to see the Blue Angels at the Cleveland National Air Show
- My first trip inside the DC SFRA
- A leisurely sightseeing loop around metro Nashville with David Dellanave
- Another leisurely sightseeing loop around Orlando with a plane full of my Quadrotech coworkers
- My first real encounter with airborne icing and my first real “I-can’t-see-the-runway” missed approach, both on the same (excellent) trip to the Marine Corps Marathon
- Taking a good friend to see her dad on his deathbed– it was a long, quiet flight back home
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