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Beautiful grass airstrip that I call home.

1-27-24 Dreary January day, beautiful flight.

After nearly a month of no flying the weather broke so us light planes and PPG's could fly.

Beautiful fall foliage In North West PA 2023

Flying north of Springboro PA over fall foliage.

Fall 🍁 foliage is starting to turn.

Fisherman asked me to find the seaweed beds to avoid and deep channels so they could find the walleye.

Bebopping around western Crawford County

This is an FP101 and Tom is learning to fly it.

Spring foliage is also beautiful, with the spring buds of red, purple and yellow.

Aiden (10 yrs old) did the videography, I did the flying. Did 4 go rounds

A plane wants to fly a certain speed. With hands and feet off of the controls my koala wants to fly 53 mph. At about 58-5900 rpm my plane cruises level at 53 mph. At about 6000 rpm + it climbs at 53 mph. At about 5500 rpm it descends about 200'/minute at 53 mph.

My 2nd flight had strong thermals and scared the shit out of me... Setting me up for a spectacular landing and subsequent flip over.

FP202 flyover with traps playing. I'm getting to that age where nearly every month a friend, family member, or close associate passes on. I felt like making a tribute.

2/12/23 beautiful Sunday

In subfreezing temperature my ailerons locked up. Open inspection, and in 40⁰ weather, my ailerons are free and no indication of why they seized up.

Chair Flying is practicing upset recovery scenarios to the point of muscle memory

Final fitting of aileron hinges Aiden and Avery helping and doing videography

18⁰ bitter cold, but the 1st day ok for flying

1 hr flight around NW Pennsylvania

These are canned videos of my son and I learning to fly ultralights along with some general thoughts on the subject

We did our candy drop over mystrip, and on climbing out, into rising terrain and 70' trees my exhaust blows off. Thank God I chair fly Emergency scenarios to the point of muscle memory.