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Bears in Blue Ridge | Part 3, Down with ODP

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A Dunkin' in Jasper, GA made for makeshift flight planning space as we waited on fog to lift at Pickens County Airport. The weather was visibly lifting and he assured them that their chartered aircraft would return. It was one of the most baffling exchanges with Air Traffic Control that I had ever overheard.

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Alton Bay's "Excellent Water"

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As Warrior 481 lifted us to a cruise altitude of 7,500 feet, the first hint of the sunrise came in the form of a massive fireball turned vermillion by miles of low haze between us and the horizon. hours in actual instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). small and cramped inside) and unhurried (i.e.,

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