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Pictures from 11 Jan 09


Here are some pictures I took.


Looking at the sky from Langa
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Cloudy and foreboding


Approaching the Mississippi River
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Cloudy

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Clearing


St Charles Airport (3SQ) at St Charles, MO
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Old and worn


Looking west to clear skys
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Sunny and clear skys


St Charles, MO
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Lots of houses


Hermann Municipal Airport (63M) at Hermann, MO
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Approaching from the east at 6,500 feet


Calaway Nuclear Power Plant outside Jefferson City, MO
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A long view

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A closer view


Jefferson City Memorial Airport (JEF) at Jefferson City, MO
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Approaching from the east at 6,500 feet

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Nice airport


Lake of the Ozarks
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Approaching from the east

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A better view


Strange Looking Ground
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I don't know why it looks this way

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A closer view


Butler Memorial Airport (BUM) at Butler, MO
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Approaching from the east

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Approaching from the east

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On downwind for runway 36

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On base for runway 36

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On final for runway 36

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On downwind for runway 36

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On final for runway 36

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On final for runway 36


Power Plant near Butler
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Gilmore Airport (57K) at Pleasonton, KS
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Approaching from the southeast

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On downwind for runway 21

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On base for runway 21

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On final for runway 21

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Rolling down runway 21

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On downwind for runway 21

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On final for runway 21


Fort Scott Municipal Airport (FSK) at Fort Scott, KS
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Flying past to enter left downwind for runway 18

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Approaching from the southeast

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On final for runway 18

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Rolling down runway 18

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On downwind for runway 18

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On base for runway 18

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On base for runway 18

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Rolling down the taxiway to the ramp

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FBO Building - It was closed

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Hangar next to FBO

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Plane landing on runway 18

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Buildings at airport

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Departing airport


Airplanes at Fort Scott
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N8292Z
1963 Cessna 210-5 (205)

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N4689Z
1961 Piper PA-22-108

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N7YF
19xx Beech Bonanza A36

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Pretty but too blurry to read the tail number

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N7925R
1969 Beech V35A

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N56074
1973 Piper PA-28-180

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N94202
1974 Cessna T210L


Tall towers between Fort Scott and Nevada, MO
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1200 feet tall


Nevada Municipal Airport (NVD) at Nevada, MO
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End of runway 3

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Approaching from the west

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Approaching from the west

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On base for runway 20

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On final for runway 20

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Rolling down runway 20

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Buildings at Airport

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Departing airport to the east


Power Parachute at Nevada
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He was tooling around the airport

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He never said anything on the radio


Pomme De Terre Lake
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Potato Lake


My Instruments
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Flying from Nevada (NDV) to Camdenton (H21)
to stay out of the Truman Military Operations Area
before turning towards Alton
29.8 nm to go
Altitude: 5,500 feet above sea level
Airspeed: 108 knots
Ground Speed: 130 knots
Heading of 083 Degrees
Time: 14:09
Talking with Springfield Approach on 124.95
0 degrees C outside


Lake of the Ozarks
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From the south


Fields and Clear Sky
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A beautiful day


Approaching the Missouri River
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You can see the bluffs

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Now you can see the river


Washington Memorial Airport (M06) at Washington, MO
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Approaching from the west at 5,500 feet


Spirit of St Louis Airport (CPS) at St Louis, MO
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Passing by at 4,500 feet

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Passing by at 4,500 feet


St John's Hospital - St Louis, MO
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Missouri Baptist Hospital - St Louis, MO
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Downtown Clayton, MO
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Lambert-St Louis International Airport (STL) at St Louis, MO
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Approaching from the southwest

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Almost off the end of the runways

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A nice view
a Southwest Airlines plane taxiing to takeoff on the middle runway


St Louis Regional Airport (ALN) at Alton, IL
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Approaching from the southwest

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Almost to the airport

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On final for runway 29


Plane waiting to depart
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He didn't want to taxi all the way down so waiting for an intersection departure


Planes on Ramp at LangaAir
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Looking at the Sky from Langa
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Sunny and clear, quite different from 7 hours earlier


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