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Brad
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Dev (Python, mostly), dad, Baylor Bear, student pilot. I read too much.
Night flight requirements: ✅
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Flew my first solo XC today, plus had a nice stop for a plane-watching breakfast on one leg. Been building up to this day for a long while, and it did not disappoint!
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Flying over the cloud layer just never gets old
September 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If ever you’re passing through the area, the Llano airport is lovely. They have a free BBQ shuttle courtesy car you can check out to pop over to Cooper’s, and it’s well worth the experience!
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Love it when they add super-convenient new options
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
(extremely Joe Buck voice) yes...oh god yes
August 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Flying near sunset for the first time and it was positively beautiful.
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In our seats and set up with theater-gimme accoutrements for the KPDH Sing-Along. (My kids are like a decade older than most in here, but the music is a universal jam!)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
now THIS is a place GPT can deliver today. (is this TOO on the nose?)
August 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
August 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Good news — finally had all the stars align and got to do my first cross-country flight with an instructor! (Hello, Lake Waco)

Bad news — my regular instructor is no longer at my school. :(
August 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
to be FULLY fair, the vast majority of this 15-mile drive is through farmland
August 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Perhaps I should have included the pics…<facepalm>
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Meant to tell you — finally got the chance to meet your plane’s friend in person!
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Oh, and yesterday we toured some cool spots at NASA. Got to see the mission control for ISS ops, the fully-restored room from the Apollo and STS missions, and walk through a full shuttle-without-shell in a building.
July 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Swung by the Lonestar Aviation Museum with the kids today. Planes, as it turns out, are kinda awesome.
July 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Felt just about close enough to reach out and touch the sky today.
June 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
@sirfahrenheit.bsky.social now i guess you’ve got TWO reasons to aim to get out of the country for a while
June 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
(counterpoint)

the people: We want good trains!

USA: we have trains at home!

the trains at home:
June 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Those crazy people let me fly a plane all by myself (first solo!)
June 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
That last bullet on @marcoarment.bsky.social’s release notes!
May 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’m rather direct with my favorite mode
May 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
April 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ok now I get it
April 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What is wrong with this picture (taken in downtown Austin)? Look closely.
April 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM