Jason

Still absolutely stoked from Friday. 10 yrs since I’d surfed and even before that my sessions were few and far between so I started with a beginner coaching and couldn’t have asked for it go better. Next time will be a novice session. Also, these pools are game changers, 14 waves caught in an hour.

Two F18s popped up off the coast of Venezuela on #flightradar24 for a couple minutes. Gone now.

About to go 🏄
Pic is not me! Not even close 😂

As the evening Sun fades from the viewpoint on Cerro Pachón, a green light peeks through. This phenomenon is known as a green flash, or green rim. The green is a result of atmospheric refraction as the Earth’s atmosphere separates white sunlight into its constituent wavelengths. Although a green rim is present at every sunset, there’s a good chance that you’ve never noticed it! It’s too thin to be seen by the naked eye, and only lasts a handful of seconds as the Sun slips past the horizon. Photography and videography are the best ways to capture the rare appearance of this atmospheric effect. While not a natural phenomenon, this image also serendipitously captures a soaring airplane against the fading sunlight. This sunset was captured from Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. Cerro Pachón is home to several telescopes operated by NOIRLab including the SOAR Telescope, a part of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab; Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the NSF; and NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is jointly funded by the NSF and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE/SC). Petr Horálek, the photographer, is a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

NOIRLab image of the week

A Green Flash Flight

As the photographer Petr Horálek photoshoots the sunset Green Flash from Cerro Pachón, he serendipitously captures a soaring airplane against the fading sunlight. 🔭🧪

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Friday evenings flight sitting right seat serving as safety pilot.

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Slipstream Dragonfly just NW of Leesburg and Dulles airports. #SkyCards

#NoKings
#FDT

No f*ckin’ way.

You flatter me!

Inside of a C172 in flight with me looking out to starboard window.

Inside of a C172 making a left turn

Inside of a C172 on final for a touch and go

Image of ForeFlight map showing rusty pattern work

Touch and go’s for lunch today!

Dash of a Cessna 172 that is going no where because of the stupid wind.

Had to make the hard choice today but with a direct crosswind gusting to 17kts, it was the safe choice. Have to respect those personal limits.

Thank you continually posting these! Truly!

More right seat safety pilot fun yesterday. Hopefully get back in the left seat next week. Saw some aerobatics being practiced from the air and we over flew the plane I took my checkride in.

Riding safety pilot again on Friday and hopefully in a DA40 🤞

I’m not kidding when I say intersecting. We needed clearance to race across the active show runway and come back. Unbelievable how they were running this thing. The timing couldn’t have worked out better for my drive.

Saturday I had a downright unbelievable experience. Drove 170mph in a Lamborghini Huracan Evo on an intersecting runway with a live, low level F18 demo taking place above me. The sound of a Lamborghini Huracan Evo engine at max revs behind your head mixed with F18s in afterburner is unbeatable!

Fat Albert over Georgia
#Skycards

Oceana for the day

Happy birthday and have a great weekend!

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Angry. Morning. Noon. Night.

I caught the #Electra test aircraft landing on Friday. Check out that SHORT landing! 👀 Maybe 4-5 plane lengths before turning to taxi.

Sun setting over distant Shenandoah from the right front seat of a Cessna 172.

Sun setting over distant Shenandoah mountains.

View of the evening sky over Virginia from a Cessna 172

Cessna 172 front panel and a view of our approach into Manassas Airport in the evening

I got to check off a new flying experience and I get to log some time for it too. I got to serve as safety pilot sitting right seat on a flight down to Charlottesville and back.

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Diamond DA20 tied down on flight line

Diamond DA20 on flight line with lens flare and sun behind

Man looking to right out window flying a Diamond DA20 in flight pattern

Man looking out window toward Appalachian mountains flying Diamond DA20

Just found out my flight school, who I’m currently just renting through, is getting my old schools DA20! So hyped!

Is this to scale?

Hmmm. Was just at that bar a few weeks ago. Vue Rooftop. No domestic activity that day 😂