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Keith Chayer
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Private pilot. Happily married. Pro Oxford comma, against meetings that should be emails. #DS9 is the best Trek. Black lives matter. he/him. CCIE #39786. Slava Ukraini. #resist

“Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy.” -Zach de la Rocha

📍Louisville, KY
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This is great! Here I am with my CFI when I passed my PPL check ride late 2023.
A man (me) and woman (my flight instructor) shaming hands in front of a small mostly-white airplane
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Indeed they do.
A tuxedo torbico kitty laying on a green plastic mat on an antique wooden chair. The kitty has brown, black, red, and gray coloring, with a white tuxedo chest and mittens. A black and white tuxedo kitty absolutely sprawled on his back, legs spread, one arm in the air, without a care in the world. He is just absolutely chillin’.
August 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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These two almost never get along, but yesterday, for a few minutes, they were friends. Or at least they were too lazy to care.
A mostly white (with a few orange spots) and a properly-dressed black tuxedo kitty laying on the back of a gray couch with their backs touching. There is a book bag in the background.
August 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Haha I always thought the same thing about that tree. I have (sort of) that picture. Did you make it all the way to the hand tram?
My family and I standing next to (and on) a tree that has a butt-shaped protrusion. There are four of us: a woman in the foreground, a man (me) back and to the left, a ten year old boy on my shoulders, and his thirteen year old brother standing on the tree-butt.
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I put some pork belly on earlier today to make burnt ends. By now it’s not quite dead, but it’s not fooling anyone. At some point some chicken legs also marinated in that smoke.
Burnt end cubes of pork belly on the smoker
July 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I haven’t flown solo since September, and I truly enjoyed my lonesome and peaceful slow dance with the clouds on Friday. Bonus: Indian food for lunch in Bowling Green, KY. #pilotsofbluesky
Scattered cloudy sky beneath the right wing of a small airplane Scattered cloudy sky beneath the left wing of a small airplane
June 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I flew near some clouds the other day. It was a very pleasant flight, and I ate Indian food in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
An airplane wing in the sky near some clouds Lamb Rogan Josh Indian lunch
June 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Book cover for “A Fever in the Heartland” by Timothy Egan
May 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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This is Fox News (and its ilk) in a nutshell: scare their audience with lies about made-up villains in order to generate enough faux outrage to get them to vote the real villains into office.
Cartoon image three men sitting at a table. The focus is on a rich-looking older white man in a blue suit with a large pile of cookies in a plate in front of him. He’s looking at another younger white man in a reflective vest and hard hat (working man’s clothes) with a single cookie in front of him while derisively pointing to a dark-skinned third man who has no cookies. The rich old man is telling the younger white man, “Careful. That foreigner wants your cookie.”
February 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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After knocking the rust off my first few landings yesterday at my home airport, I flew my wife and son to Greencastle, IN for lunch and then visited Terre Haute for coffee and the gift shop. I planted it on the threshold and turned off runway 23 at KHUF in 700’. 😁
View of us from the front seat of a small aircraft at 8500 feet in the air, looking back at my son and I in the front seat, my wife in the back seat, and the partially snow-covered ground of rural southern Indiana out the window beneath us. A man in a light blue jacket, a woman in a blue UK hoodie and black jacket, and a taller-than-both-his-parents sixteen year old young man in black and LIGJT green, standing in front of a sign that says “Corsair Cafe” — the restaurant and gift shop at KHUF airport in Terre Haute, IN. We’re looking off over the left wing of a small airplane down at the snow-covered ground from 8500 feet in the air. The wing is white and the ground is a mix of green and white, evidence of recent winter weather in southern Indiana below. The horizon bisects the image horizontally and the sky is clear and blue with a slight haze. An airport map of KHUF in Terre Haute, IN, measuring the landing distance from the runway threshold to taxiway Bravo where we turned off after planting it on the threshold. 700 feet, baby — short field landing for the win!
February 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I’m not sure I’d call this silly but he sure is cozy!
A long mostly-white but slightly-orange cat making himself even longer by laying on his back and stretching his foremost and aft most limbs as hard as he can. Oh, and he’s asleep this way.
January 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Took @moogie.chayer.net flying today. We got breakfast. We went really fast. Then we went really slow.
A man and a woman in small airplane. A man and a woman turning downwind in a small airplane. ForeFlight track log. Ground speed: 181 kts (208 mph). ForeFlight track log. Ground speed: 10 kts (painfully slow). The stall horn was chirping.
January 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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This is my go-to. They sell this size can at my local Asian grocery store, but I’ve seen larger containers available online. I would guess making your own may yield a fresher-tasting product, but this saves the trouble at least and I’ve always enjoyed the flavor.
A small bright red can of AROY-D Thai red curry paste
December 29, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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lol same. Solidarity, brother!
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December 11, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Our destination? The proverbial $100 hamburger at KSJS. We watched the sunset from the air on our return trip.
Three people are sitting in a small airplane, or should I say riding, because the airplane is cruising through the air at 120 knots true airspeed. Two men are in the foreground: a much better looking young lad on the left wearing a black t-shirt with yellow letters that says SERVE and his much older dad on the right wearing a gray t-shirt accented by a blue towel over his shoulder. The young man on our left is flying the airplane and his girlfriend sits behind him experiencing her first general aviation flight. She is wearing green along with a desire to be the copilot on the return trip (her wish was granted). All three airplane occupants are smiling and wearing aviation headsets.
November 23, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Post a nonreligious photo you think of as holy.
Looking down from 7500 feet in the sky (“odd pilots fly east”) past the left wing of a white airplane from the late 1970s at the fall colors in the eastern hills of Kentucky. The landscape is tree-filled with blotches of orange, yellow, green, and brown and broken up by lighter colored valleys and dark colored lines of shadow. There is a lake in the distance and the blue sky is above.
November 23, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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I had the good fortune to fly a Ford Trimotor over Lexington, KY last month, and yes, I’m in the right seat. I logged my first 0.3 hours of multi-engine time in this 95 year old legend. My college freshman son and his girlfriend came along. #WingWednesday #aviation
We’re in an airplane a couple thousand feet above the ground, looking out the right side across the front of the wing and past engine number three. It’s a big ol’ radial engine from a bygone era. A road intersects the view on the from lower left to upper right; city suburbs are left of the road while more rural land lies to the right. The wing is made of corrugated aluminum because this airplane is 95 years old.
November 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM