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Flights

Round-Trip Angel Flight to Memphis

Weather can postpone a lot of things, but it doesn’t stop people from needing help to travel to receive medical treatments!

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Updates

The 2021 Annual Inspection

It’s a rite of passage that every aircraft owner must go through; the dreaded annual inspection. How will she fare?

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Updates

Instrument Checkride Done!

After months of training, practice, and several missteps and delays, I was finally able to successfully complete my instrument checkride!

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Adventures

Returning From Nashville

When my weekend plans got cancelled, I didn’t even sweat it. Instead, I made a spontaneous trip up to Nashville, Tennessee.

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Humor

America's Most Wanted!

Be on the lookout for these two criminal canines! They are wanted for causing chaos in the neighborhood.

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Updates

C-45 Low Pass

It just never gets old. This old beauty came for a visit today! It may have not lasted very long, but it was quite thrilling!

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Adventures

Now THAT'S a Cookie!

A friend of mine is somewhat of a foodie and asked if I wanted to take a little trip to pick up a special cookie. A special cookie? What’s so special about it?

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Adventures

Long Training Weekend - Day 5

The weather had cleared up, it was a beautiful day, and I needed to make up for lost time. Today would be the day that would thoroughly test my endurance and concentration.

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Adventures

Long Training Weekend - Day 4

Well, this post is going to much shorter than the others, since I woke up to low ceilings, strong winds, and rain. Not a good combination for receiving flight instruction.

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Long Training Weekend - Day 3

Today I would make my way from Florida to North Carolina and needed to pick up a friend that was delivering his airplane for its annual inspection.

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Adventures

Long Training Weekend - Day 2

My stop in central Florida was necessary to visit a specialty shop to make an adjustment to the wings and controls of the airplane.

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Adventures

Long Training Weekend - Day 1

I have been looking forward to getting my training wrapped up for my instrument rating for a while now, but I had a pitstop to make along the way.

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Humor

KPHL ATIS During Tropic Storm Isaias

LO Altitude on YouTube had some fun with the recent passing of tropical storm Isaias through the northeastern United States last week. This is hysterical!

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Adventures

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

I had two important reasons to make a weekend trip to Charlotte over the last weekend, and the summer weather certainly made for some interesting flights.

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Adventures

Ride Along on a Quick Flight to Carrollton

It was a beautiful day for a flight, so I set up all of the cameras in the plane for my quick ten minute flight into the West Georgia Regional Airport in Carrollton.

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Test Edit of Multi-cam Video

The Postal Service finally started delivering some of the ordered equipment this week, so I decided to try a little test. This was really just a test of the editing workflow.

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Thanks to the U.S. Postal Service...

This weekend, I took a trip down to the coast of Georgia, but thanks to the postal service, I was unable to capture any video of the trip!

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Updates

My ADS-B Install is Finally Underway!

ADS-B stands for Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast, and effective January 1, 2020, it was required for general aviation aircraft flying in most controlled airspace in the United States.

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It's Time for a New Start!

Well, the time has finally come… BurnedOutGeek.com has undergone a complete overhaul, and this time, it’s gonna stick!

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Updates

What and Who are the Flying Foodies?

Over the past few years, we have experienced some great adventures while hunting to satisfy the curiosities of our sense of adventure and our taste buds! We welcome you to join us!

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Adventures

The Inaugural Flight

One of the most important things that you must do after an engine overhaul is to properly break-in the engine components. That gave me an idea… Road Trip!

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Updates

Engine Overhaul Complete

That was the longest 10 weeks of my life, but the overhaul of my Cessna’s Continental powerplant is finally done! And it looks fantastic!

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The New 182 - It's Official!

After months of looking and several weeks of negotiations, I have officially purchased and completed the paperwork on my “new to me” Cessna 182. She’s coming home!

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Adventures

Chinese Food

When at home, I love to eat chinese food. However, when in China, I was continuously on the hunt for american food! Why, you ask?

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Adventures

Guangfulin Cultural Site

Guangfulin is a 250 square kilometer archaeological site in Shanghai, China that is estimated to be over 5,000 years old. It has unearthed artifacts dating back to the Zhou Dynasty.

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Adventures

Grand Cayman - Nov. 2018

In November 2018, I took a company trip to Grand Cayman Island and spent a week on Seven Mile Beach. This was my first trip to the Cayman Islands and it didn’t disappoint!

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Experiences

The Ride of a Lifetime with Jimmie Johnson

I was honored and excited to get the call saying that I had won the opportunity to ride along with NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson!

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