Joe Shupienis

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• January 7, 2002, on Flying:

  Happy to hear of your new interest, Phil. I have flown for the fun of it almost as long as I have taken pictures for the same reason. Combining the two can be a real treat, and I almost always take a camera with me when flying to some exotic place 50 miles away... Funny how using an airplane to get there makes it move up the exotic scale... :) A note of caution -- even high timers like to take somebody along (pilot or non pilot) to yell if something goes wrong while taking pictures. As my flight instructor from 22 years ago told me -- the pilots primary duty is to "fly the airplane". Everything else is a lower priority. A really cool thing you can do, after you solo and begin the cross-country phase of your training, would be to take pictures of every airport you land at. Conditions permitting (gusty crosswinds probably won't permit) a snap through the windscreen on final approach, and once on the ground, a picture of the tower/terminal/hangars/line shack/whatever would make great...