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Always Have an Out: The SLD Incident

Photographic Logbook

I was one of four transient airplanes on final for the larger runway 27L and Detroit Approach provided a pair of vectors to delay my arrival until those ahead landed. Warrior 481 did not have an outside air temperature (OAT) gauge when bought I her in 2004. Two(ish) mile final for runway 27L at Oakland County International.

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2700 Miles in a Cherokee Six

AeroSavvy

A few years ago, I got the bug to fly small airplanes again. I trained for a few weeks at a local flight school, then rented a Cessna 172 to fly with my family. We fly our new-to-us Piper to Florida often (the airplane could probably find Orlando on its own), and we agreed it was time for something more adventurous.