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A320 FO, Backpacker, Beekeeper, Latino Anticommunist 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 | Semper Fi 🦅 IG @flycharlesfly | AK resident

Orlando, FL
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3 years
Get you a girl that looks at you the way Ren looks at a @PopeyesChicken sandwich
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Ohhhhhhhh Oh no. FO strikes again #flying #aviation #avgeek @flykkylie
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@DeepSixOB Did you see the Metroliner that was shot by an AR-15 with a Cirrus attachment? Absolutely outrageous that this is legal
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Now that’s a sunset #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Just had the hairiest situation of my professional flying career, to include a “Dont let us fucking die, Charles. Head in the game head in the game” Adrenaline shakes for both of us upon nailing it & getting back on the ground This ones an in-person story only Time for a beer
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TIL of technical Cessnas 🔥 @Snakeeater36 @DempMcgee
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Flying with the chief pilot as my captain today He knows where the small quality of life details are at 😂 Time to go buy some covers ⛳️ #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Yup. Almost there 😅 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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@MikhailaAleksis @Timcast It’s in the genes apparently ha
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Freaking aweeeeeesome photo 🔥 Cred to photographer Camden Thrasher #flying #aviation #avgeek @k88comet @DempMcgee @breezyy_does_it
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I think I’d just go back to being a welder if I had to fly this 😂 #flyinf #aviation #avgeek
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Alright I can share! I just finished 3 hops for Citation V FO type rating & chief pilot’s happy with how it went. Officially a First Officer with Lone Star Aviators (135) out of HOU. Veteran operated 🇺🇸 This is our Citation 560, 1 of 2 Citations w plans for a third a/c #aviation
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My little brother got to fly into Aspen and this is the approach. Beautiful! I got to hand fly into Telluride so I can’t be too jealous 😛 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Well, I just shook hands on it & can let the cat out of the bag Caravan job lost a contract & laid me off, which led to this opportunity Starting next month I’ll be a First Officer on Citation 2 and 5’s out of Houston, TX! Short list for Captain upgrade with a growing company!
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“Why do I need to know how to use an e6b. I’ll never use one” Surprise 🙃 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Ok I just gave notice & can spill the beans The reason for the truck is: Ive accepted an offer from Ravn Alaska & will be moving to Anchorage in March to train in as a Dash-8 First Officer. Checking the box for ISR, polar, & 121 exp 😎 Cant wait to hit the mountains w Ren 🐺
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The first thing we saw upon arrival was the Rhino F/A-18 Super Hornet demo x F4U Corsair heritage flight Absolutely awesome. People like their Mustangs but that Corsair… 🤌
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This might be a first for Sun N Fun 🤌🔥
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Did that really just happen…. Somebody pinch me 😳 Almost 2 hours spent photographing this young female prior to this #Alaska #moose #photography #wildlifephotography
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The best man I know (besides my dad) likely won’t be here beyond today. My cool uncle I keep socials pretty personally distanced, but I know many of you have faith. If y’all could add him to your/Sunday prayers it’d be much appreciated 🙏 his name is Jeff Steel Thankful to have
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Holy smokes… just woke up to a call from the chief pilot from yesterday’s interview and… I was offered & accepted the position to be a Dash-8 jump FO for the baddest firefighters around, the BLM Smokejumpers Training in NC > Ft Wainright LaddArmy Airfield, Fairbanks 🔥 LFG!
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113 people flown safely to their destinations yesterday Day 1 of IOE is in the bag Sand Point and Bethel today 😎
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Totaling up hours for reasons and just realized that 1000 hours multi engine & 1000 hours turbine was just crossed 2000TT by the end of the year Written logbooks are a nice ritual to slow down & keep perspective #flying #aviation #avgeek
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@RealCaloJones I respect what you’re doing up in Alaska but this is a very out of touch opinion, honestly Shoehorning yourself & family into the hood vs renting and taking an extra 2-5 years of addt’l saving for somewhere decent is not the move $150k is a reasonable target, affordable, safer
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Just flew my first jet leg, engine start to shut down, from the left seat. Clean landing and first taxi turnoff as we’d planned, with chief pilot acting as First Officer Feels good 💪 Next order of business is get everything smoother for minimal passenger feel of climb/level/etc
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It’s been a long road & ngl I had doubts of completing at times PPL training started in 2008 followed by a scam school walking off with almost 100 student loans PPL finished 2018 IOE started March 1 Now, the dream of being an airline pilot came true this week 👨‍✈️ Feels great!
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Off to fly on my dad’s retirement flight 😎 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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@arrington @BretWeinstein @arrington Common values =/= facism. A shared consensus on discontinuing whaling, outside of small indigenous subsistence, is a prime example of agreeing on common values and ground rules. Bret hasn't proposed a "how to do", just a "what to do"
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Is this a trick question? I’m going to check it #flying #aviation #avgeek
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I’m not sure you fit there 1.5 year old giant puppy 😂
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@dwuk86 @CaliaDomenico @MenTourPilot Every airport and each large airport’s runway has unique departure procedures to avoid obstacles/terrain as well as predictably route traffic for smooth flow in/out. If you’re curious go to and check out your local international airport 👍
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2017 waiting tables at Pappadeaux & getting psyched by @Flex_Lewis . Mind set on saving up for a decade to afford flight school. Landed a welding job 2 months later Now flying into IAH for the first time Feels good 🤙 Anyone can do it #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Dad is sending non stop awesome seaplanes + others from @SunnFunFlyIn All sorts of jealous 🤩 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Well thats a wrap! Flew my last flight with Lone Star Aviators out of KHOU. Its been a huge skill builder with a lot of hard work. From 1 Citation to now a 3rd (Falcon) plus a few good friends, its been a great time Next stop PANC Ravn Alaska & Dash8 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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970 hours total time 1000 by the end of the month for sure 😁
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Seen in the Boeing parking lot. I need to find this for my sister 😎 #flying #Aviation #avgeek
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FBO popcorn is slowly returning Nature is healing 🙏 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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More gold from Lee Absolutely accurate. I was just going with wind until age 26, a decade ago which is wild upon reflection Upon setting a firm goal and committing, actually showing up, and setting a priority, 6 figure welder rapidly rolled into 0-debt airline pilot #flying
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Lafayette Lee
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Some advice for the younger fellas… You need to know that most men will stumble around aimlessly for a few decades, snatching up opportunities as they drift by, and manage just fine… but at some point they’ll look back and realize they missed out on something big or wonder
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NTSB chairman: “NOTAMs are a bunch of garbage” “Birds and cranes in the vicinity of the airport? Theres birds and cranes in the vicinity of every goddamn airport” 😂 I mean, he’s not wrong
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Glad to say I had two smooth landings + one firm (lol) in a reasonably strong crosswind Familiarization today. We requested checkride settings V1 cuts and circle to lands for tomorrow 😎 737-NG sim #flying #aviation #avgeek #boeing
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@epicurious Time to delete the epicurious bookmark and spend more time with our boi Kenji at the far more useful @seriouseats 👌
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On top of the storm. Somewhere over New Jersey #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Not a bad way to spend a birthday 🤙 Two smooth landings in the 319 and then 320 NEO Now waiting for the plane for the last leg of the day in Philly while having a Philly
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Survived to 1500TT with no bent metal Lots of career options on the horizon! #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Adding up hours and just realized that a pretty major milestone has been passed🤘
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Yup it’s true, to include downgrading 130 captains with a forecast of a second round 130 downgrades down the line Sept 1 for implementation of furloughs Thankfully I’m safe from furlough, but I absolutely feel for the newer hires sharing excited stories/posts on IG who are
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BREAKING Spirit has announced it will furlough 260 pilots. The airline will also defer all Q2 2024 through 2026 Airbus deliveries till 2030. Details:
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@GeorgiasGiant That other cow
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Airline Transport Pilot training done! Back to Anchorage for stationary sim/prep for the real sim It’s 8pm in this photo ☀️
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We keep that mf thang on us. Right Ren? @DempMcgee @breakonthru234
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Anchorage from the air is fire We have a lot of badass lady pilots and crew mil pilots 🤘 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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ChikfilA: just as tasty, nay, even more tasty at 12,500 feet #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Approach and land at KLEB Lebanon, NH Ceilings 700’ AGL & mist. Very fun approach while flying with our ex-airline FO turned Citation captain. Systematic, stable, smooth #flying #aviation #avgeek @DempMcgee
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Post a picture you’ve taken of water.
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Delta Duster 🏴‍☠️ 🏴
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Post a picture you’ve taken of water.
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Yesterday was a trip! IAH - San Fran to get lunch and meet the first officer, one of dad’s friends who he flew with on the 737 San Fran - IAH as dad’s final leg on the 787 & in the 121 world after 36 years w @united Couldn’t ask for a better dad 😄 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Passed the oral and passed the 2 straight hours sim! Officially type rated FO & flight qualified 😄 What an experience. 1.5 days to study before sim. It was worth the stress and literal all day/5 day study. First of this family gen to type a jet! So stoked! #aviation #avgeek
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Yesterday we got to do a pool session for water ditching procedures: raft deploy, righting if it inflates upside down, and getting people onboard 🏊‍♀️ Good stuff #flying #aviation #avgeek
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On my first trip as a First Officer 😎 Up to the flight levels for the first time! HOU - Dallas Love Field - SFM Sanford, Maine to layover for 1-2 days N700LP for the curious #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Tonight’s homework Flash card making and starting to muscle memory this center console #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Hints late last night for half an hour & then a sudden explosion of #aurora for about five minutes w a very active racer of red! This was skimming the AK border, as if AK was saying “Heres a lil something so you dont forget me. See you soon” I’ll be back asap @Vincent_Ledvina
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Well I picked up this pretty cool piece of paper today 😎 3 more days & then back home I’ve been in a hotel since June 12 working away at the training to pass this checkride. Feels good! Tomorrow seat support for sim partner on his ride & then we celebrate with drinks & ramen!
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Some slick visitors at ABQ today 😎 Army, Marines, Air Force, and CAP all showing up #flying #aviation #avgeek
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@JoeSilverman7 Literally flying pipeline survey now. It’s almost like you can earn what you want instead of debt. Comm. college welding PSAV in 2013 for $6000 Saved 5 yrs Cash for flight lessons while working full time hrs @USPS No debt but my car since 2015 Bonus pic of morale officer:
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First time getting de iced ⛄️
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I hope American Airlines let the flight attendant keep this war trophy She earned it 👌 Centerpiece of her career shelf for sure “Ok kids gather round grandma so she can tell you kids how she absolutely skulled a man in her flight attendant days”
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@knot_agency *adds flare gun to EDC kit*
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@ChivalryGuild Looks good
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I counted them up and Ren is at just under 30 hours of flight time. She needs a logbook 🐺 #japanesedog #KaiKen #avgeek
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Ayyy it even has pitch and roll First truck 🔥
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@DempMcgee “Don’t use straws you’re killing the environment!” *dumps 2 billion Coof tests in landfills”
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PBY Catalina "Black Cat" You cannot kill the metal🤘 #flying #aviation #avgeek @DempMcgee @k88comet
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Just got the PRIA clearance email. So, I guess it’s official! My next uniform will have yellow detailing & base in FLL for the next year 🌴 Time to get back in a jet, but this one will have a side stick and about #48 ,000 more total thrust than the Citation V 🤘
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Last flight with this great captain! Andrew’s off to the majors and he’s definitely earned that slot He’s a fellow tradesman turned pilot, having been a merchant marine container ship engineer. As high integrity as it gets Roast his landings if you fly Frontier and see him 😎
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Observation flight. The @Airbus jumpseat is on a whole different level from the 737. @BoeingAirplanes please Tomorrow we operate from the right seat and hopefully don’t make it obvious that it was the First Officer that landed 😎 👌
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Little sis got to jump seat on our dad’s 787 flight! That’s a family “first” 👏 I’m hoping to get my dad in to be a relief part time captain with my company, then crew with him. We’ll see what the future holds! She’s a cargo pilot out of one of Arizona #flying #aviation #avgeek
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It’s official, my niece is the cutest aviator baby 🤌 @ltyoja @breezyy_does_it
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@freespeechhaver Did the stormtrooper actually hit the wall?
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@xynkox I see they’ve read the 4 Hour Work Week 🤌
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9.7 hours of flight time today. Just pulled up at home & am bushed BUT today was the company’s *first* day operating TWO jets same day for charter. Big milestone for what started with coming on as the 3rd employee & first FO Also got a raise this week. Good to be appreciated 💪
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30 hours flown last week. Building time 💪 Organ flight in the morning to transport doctors and a liver to save a life. Doesn’t get better than that for a meaningful CONUS mission #flying #aviation #avgeek
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Merry Christmas from the road! Atlantic City and Chinese food for Luis and I tonight 😄 Pilot’s Christmas with our families around New Year
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Hmmm maybe a touch n go? 🤔 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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FL330 smooth Last day at Lone Star Aviators! #flying #aviation #avgeek
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KBBQ with the boys! 🍖 We all went to flight school in 2018 Both of them moved here alone from Taiwan to pursue flying -Goody now flies a 767 for work -Daniel on the right just finished his Master’s specifically to be green card eligible & is starting his first flying job. He
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GM & Merry Christmas! 🎄
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33,000’ down to KCXO Leg 2 of 3 #flying #aviation #avgeek
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GM! Sunset over Gainesville just now ☕️ #flying #aviation #avgeek
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@CHSommers Step 1) Made fun of for bringing ethnic food to school Step 2) Grow up & try to prevent said food from becoming mainstream Step 3) Ensure more kids get made fun of for bringing ethnic food to school I wish more Venezuelan/Guyanese food would get "appropriated" so I could buy it
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Angel Falls, NM Most fun landing in the Citation, so far! Clear and million, so we got cleared for the visual, I went manual at the turn west through the pass with mountains above us on the left and right. Directly down and onto final Gotta love mountain #flying & NM #aviation
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@DempMcgee You’re not wrong
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I literally met my best friend like this around age 11 lmao
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Casual Saturday to Miami
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