Me and my Dad went up to the Waco Fly-In in Troy Ohio yesterday (9/20/2025) -
but this is what I found to be the most interesting LOL...

https://www.ohiotraveler.com/waco-fly-in/

Star Wars Imperial Starfighter Pilot,
An Imperial Officer a Jawa, Unfortunately I don't know who the Female was cosplay as.. But mostly I want a mouse droid.

#StarWars #Waco #FlyIn #Jawa #ImperialPilot #ImperialOfficer

I flew into Poplar Grove's (C77) fly in today and it was a neat event. My flight was uneventful IFR until I was on the RNAV-A approach into the airport. I was just entering a broken layer at 2500' and an aircraft departed 12 and flew strait at my path. Rockford approach broke me off and I got to do the approach again. I'm not convinced that aircraft was legal, on the second approach I was circling at minimums and a lot of VFR traffic was also scud running in at 500' to the field.

Now, I have a lot of opinions on that and none of them are good but they would have been in class G airspace so as far as I know it's legal. I'd argue it's dumb as hell but also they're using 12 instead of 30 so I have to join the pattern. Now here is where I mess up. I sidestep left to join the downwind, "I'm making left traffic because I just went left" my brain said. I'm frazzled from the unexpected VFR traffic that has surprised me twice now. So I flew right traffic while making incorrect calls and I notice after I land and I'm taxing. This frazzles me further, but I taxi to park where the marshals put me. The final Marshall let's me know it's left traffic, he was polite about it. I apologized, it was my fault completely. I was letting things get to me while scraping clouds at minimums. Going missed was a real possibility but who knows where those sky cowboys were at.

I get out, start walking around. I find a restroom and when I'm washing my hands I remember I just landed at an untowered airport IFR. I didn't close my flight plan! Apparently the national clearance delivery hotline isn't a thing anymore so I eventually find a number for Chicago approach and get my plan closed. Then I sat down for a while to just let my brain settle.

My departure was a different kind of misadventure I'll elaborate on but the event it self was well run and fun. I'd recommend going if you're nearby but I wouldn't recommend coming in VFR at 500' AGL just scraping the clouds. They did eventually lift to 1500' AGL or so and then a lot more aircraft came in.

#generalAviation #flying #avgeek #pilot #flyin #C77

My EAA Chapter had a very successful first Fly Out to Portage for their Fly In (C47). It was the busiest non-towered traffic pattern I've ever been in, with the added challenge that we were landing 36 and you really only could back taxi. So we'd pile up four aircraft at the end and taxi back in formation.

Really cool day, I'm glad some of my chapter members joined me so I didn't feel like a dork having a one man fly out. I'm sad I had to rent an aircraft but grateful I had a backup option when mine went down for maintenance.

#eaa #flying #flyin #flyout #pancakes #generalAviation #experimentalAviation #aviation #pilot

Arranging a virtual fly-in event for my community tomorrow, first one of its kind ^_^

Put together some pre-made flight plans to help people dropping in, though hoping people will make up their own flight plans as well. This is the easy variant of the two I made, simple route but it can still be easy to go amiss so will be fun to see what kind of adventures people will have :)

(The map markings are “upside down” because you hold the map oriented to the direction you’re going)

#DCS #Flightsim #Community #FlyIn #Twitch #Streaming

PINK TRAP 🏠 BIDNESS 😤

#DreamZzZRP #flyin

My #EAA chapter is putting on a Fly In at 79C. If you're local to northeast Wisconsin or just excited to fly on over, we'd love to have you stop on by tomorrow.

https://www.brennandairport.com/events/

#flyIn #avgeek #wi