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The view: Enroute from Nashville (MQY) to Oklahoma City (SRE)
The pilot: Mike Hackney
The aircraft: 2015 Tecnam P2008 Turbo
The mission: Cross-country flight from home to work, crossing the Ozarks in Arkansas at 8500 feet MSL
The memory: Above the thermal layer—the optical illusion was of a lake covered by a sheet of ice, and the cloud tops emerging. This went on for an hour of flight time. Simply beautiful.
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Mike is a business executive by day in the food industry and a new, if older, pilot, every possible hour when not at work. He started flight instruction in 2015 and got his SEL license in early 2016. He currently owns a Tecnam P2008 and does regular cross country flights between homes and work in Chicago (KGYY), Nashville (KMQY), and Oklahoma City (KSRE), and wherever his wife wants to go. A former Army Infantry officer, Mike has written for a variety of defense publications as well as BMW related magazines, and is also a published novelist.
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