- Landed on and took off from an aircraft carrier (as a passenger)
- Landed my plane on a frozen lake
- Landed off-airport
- Made espresso at my campsite beneath my wing
- Landed on a taxiway (with ATC's permission)
- Landed at Meigs Field
- Taxied a 172 beneath the wing of a 747
- Performed a 360 at pattern altitude directly above the president's VC-25 while he was inbound in his motorcade about 2 miles away
- Legally jumpseated in an airliner on a revenue flight in the US, post-9/11, as a private pilot, without being employed by the FAA or as a dispatcher
It was during an internship at Southwest in Flight Ops. My second day of work there was 9/11. I had a very fat folder of high-level authorizations and paperwork to make it happen a couple of months later.
The very first entry in my paper logbook is PWK-CGX-PWK. I need to make sure I don't lose that one. My intro flight was a touch and go at Meigs in 2002 less than a month before it was destroyed.
Started with flying out of Meigs Field using subLOGIC’s Flight Sim in 1980 or so on a TRS-80.
15 years later, got to fly out of the real airport and zoom around Chicago for a hour or so and came back to land.
Then 7 years later in 2002 planning to fly in again on a cross country trip, but the timing didn’t work out. Next year the airport was demolished.
Flew backseat in an F-16D
Pulled 9Gs in it
Flew a MAI890 solo (well only one seat so it's always solo)
Did some light aero in a Pitts
Formed up on [this monster](https://preview.redd.it/tuesday-just-got-less-boring-another-blimp-is-approaching-v0-t7irbvrpg2rg1.jpeg?width=1705&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4833dc1f5f193c425b3c6d78a50240f302a6fb0e)
Landed at every airport in Wisconsin. Actually landed at more than there currently are, 2 or 3 closed/went private afterwards.
Yes but also no. I got my stamp as part of the Wisconsin Airport passport program, but I was not confident with my short/soft field landings at the time, so I just drove there because it was like five minutes from my apartment. Part of me wants to go back up there and get permission to actually land from the private owner just so I feel better about it. I did the same thing at Blackhawk… The asphalt conditions sketched me out. Other than those two, I actually landed at the rest of them. If I get permission and you are in the Madison area, I’ll try and reach out to you so we can tag team that Airport.
I’m not sure if you could land there anymore. The land is for sale and doesn’t look to be mowed or maintained in any way. It also hasn’t been listed on the charts for a couple of years.
Received the following radio call in the circuit:
"Archer GABC, you're number 2 behind the Flying Fortress on final. Caution: wake turbulence".
Twice. On different days, in different years.
:)
Man, that was an absolutely incredible scene! I remember thinking I envied those pilots while watching the movie. I’d love to meet you & hear the story if it ever works out :) I’m based at KFSO, north VT so not super far from NY94. Stop by if you’re ever in the area!
Shared a Class E CTAF with a 747 that was doing Pattern Work.
Annoyed a Tower with a Technically/Legally correct, but Practically incorrect Callsign.... Not my fault they never looked at my Groundspeed.
*Gulfsteam* AA5A.
I lucked out my plane is one of... I think around 100 that Gulf made before killing the Cheetah and Tiger prod line. as far as the FAA's Concerned, im a Gulf and not a Grumman.
The reasoning is just I worked at a place right across the street from a busy airport with Controllers who were... less than cordial to GA when ever they had an Airliner push. I in my infinite wisdom decided to go flying before work and would just land and go into work from Transient Parking... Unlucky for me, ATC was denying every Piper and Cessna calling in for landing but if you were a Citation they let you in. So I just decided to not quite tell them I was a little plane. I think they caught on when I was in the downwind.
I’ve had quite a bit in the last 4 years of flying.
Engine out forced landing at 100 hours, won a J3 Cub two weeks later and logged right seat TriMotor time that same day, flew said J3 from ND back to PA, got to do some epic formation flying with the Cub guys around here amongst all the other cool things pilots do.
I got to fly a Ford Tri-Motor last year. It was in the hangar by itself and I asked the FBO about it. I showed up the next day and the guy flying it was my multi and commercial instructor. It cost a little bit more, but I paid and got to ride in the right seat. He let me fly from just after takeoff until just before landing. After the flight he filled out a souvenir card with his endorsement for .5 hours dual given. It’s one of the oddest things I have in my logbook. The crazy thing was, it was not a 12,500 pound airplane. They have 2 and the other one is. So I thought that was pretty neat.
Years ago I took a C-150 up for some night flight. The winds were really strong at 3000 feet so I did some slow flight and “flew backwards”. I always thought that was a fun experience.
I did animal rescue for a couple years when I owned a Cherokee. Those were always fun and interesting flights.
I got called off reserve to fly the “Medal of Honor Flight” from JFK to DCA in 2018. I showed up to a marching band, national news, and over 30 living Medal of Honor recipients. They gave every crew member a book with every Medal of Honor recipient’s story and signed their page, hats, and coins. It was quite the surprise.
Flew the family of a posthumous MOH recipient into the small town that was naming a VA clinic after him. They got a water cannon salute as we taxied in. It was pretty neat as I was reading a book at the time about the campaign he served in and my grandfather served in the same campaign.
I had a 777 hold short for me in a C182. There is a certain amount of power in balance when you pass eye to eye with a 777 pilot who is holding short for you and your still in the descent. Haven't even started to flair.
There is an element of truth to this but also the who airline flying is sooo boring thing is massively overplayed
I have just as much fun flying a jet than I did in almost any GA job, it's a different type of fun but it's also a more satisfying type of fun
Although I agree with you, I also much prefer when someone is paying me to fly vs me paying. Also kids make it way harder to carve out time for your own hobbies.
777 guy here. I would be very jealous that you’re out there enjoying pure aviation while I’m sitting there for the next 8-16 hours with someone I probably have very little in common with outside of work.
We did a DME arc approach and there was a C-17 doing touch and goes. When we did our touch and go they were orbiting east of the field while we did our stuff! Sorry tax dollars haha
I had a 737 cut me (in a 172) at a local airport. I think they were so use to just landing and taxing that they didn’t register the controller telling them to hold short.
It was kind of fun listening to the controller berate them while they were taxing by me.
A couple months ago an Atlas Dreamlifter had to take a longer approach (they requested a base turn, were denied) because I was flying my two seat trainer across their approach corridor
Was based at JB Andrews, MD flying the UH-1N with the USAF. One night, DCA was quiet:
Me: National, MUSEL (whatever), any chsnce we could join for vectors for the COPTER ILS 1?
Tower: No problem, [vector], contact Potomac..
-- fast forward, get vectored around to final for the ILS 1 --
Tower: American 1234, traffic ahead of you is a Huey established on the ILS, make minimum speed (or whatever phraseology) -- MUSEL XX, make best speed please American behind you, #2.
Me: Pushing it up to my paultry 120KT, (I'm givin' it all shes got Capt!)
Tower: Yeaaaa MUSEL XX, ill need you to break off the approach at the missed, make left turn Zone 5
Me: Yep, figured!
Loved flying around DC at night
Shortly after getting my pilot’s license, my wife and I flew to Put-in-Bay island in Lake Erie for Memorial Day weekend. We stepped off the plane, hopped in a golf cart right on the field, and were on our way— no ferry lines, no schlepping luggage.
On the way home, we made a quick detour to North Bass Island, a mostly uninhabited state park that’s not exactly easy to reach without a boat or plane. We stumbled upon a group of ornithologists who had boated over to capture and band birds, and they invited us to watch up close. After that, my wife and I found a quiet spot on the lake for a picnic before flying back to Cleveland. One of the coolest weekends I’ve had.
I was at Continental Express in my “young days”. We were doing an early morning flight up the eastern seaboard…maybe something like RDU-EWR.
We were cruising at about FL250…it was clear and smooth. I looked out my window and below us at FL230 was a KC-135 with four F-22’s in tow! They were too close to us for the FO to see them out my window and this was WELL before cell phone cameras.
Another was a flight down to Florida…think it was EWR-PBI (no…I was not EWR-based! 😝). Nice clear day…maybe few to scattered. We were approaching JAX and saw the Space Shuttle launch…picked it up probably 10-15 seconds after launch! It was waaaaaaay out there…just a bright glow…but it was HAULING A**!!! 😳 You don’t comprehend the speed on TV…gotta see it in real life!
There are many more, but those stand out. 😊😊
Did a weekend trip to an airshow on my time off and the medevac Lear I fly landed there in the middle of the STOL competition (not part of the show, they were on a medevac flight). Hung out with my coworkers while they waited for the med crew to return with the patient and had them haul home some caribou antlers I acquired on that same trip. Made for some fun footage for the holiday party last year with the announcer commentating on their takeoff and the crowd watching.
Landed at an airport with an actual 50ft obstacle at the end of the runway flying charter into a private airport.
Landed at an airport that wasn’t in the GPS database flying for the same charter company.
Most people are just saying their cool things, but I'll go for actually niche, which I have quite a few of from all my helicopter flying!
I think the most niche thing I've done was fly bat researchers in an R-44. They'd go hike in the woods the night before and catch bats with nets, then attach tiny transmitters to them. The next evening, we'd go up in a helicopter and there'd be one guy hanging out the side with a big antenna, and another guy listening with a headset shouting "To the Left/Right/etc". Very fun and weird flying.
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Flew as a passenger in a PBY escorting the Philippine Mars down the Oregon coast on her way to Pima.
Flew my Stinson up to Victoria to watch the Hawaii Mars be escorted in by the Snowbirds - I will never forget that sound (also got weathered out of my customs airport coming home and had to explain to my boss that my coworker and I would be late to work the next day because we were stuck in another country 😅)
I volunteer as a pylon judge at the Air Races and let me tell you, there’s nothing like a P-51 or Dreadnought sailing by at 400+ mph 50’ above your head.
Two of my work airplanes have taken Best Military Transport and a Silver Wrench award at Oshkosh
Did an air to air photoshoot out of an Albatross with a flight of DC-3s at Oshkosh
I volunteer as ground crew (and hopefully soon as a pilot) with a group that gives free rides to veterans in a fleet of Boeing Stearman. I’ve flown all over the PNW and parts of the Midwest in the Stearman and have met some of the most amazing people. In 2021 we gave rides to almost 900 WWII veterans with 5 airplanes over a 2 month period.
One of the most memorable flights was taking the guy who gave me my first flying lesson for his last general aviation flight. He had his very first airplane ride in a 1947 Stinson 108 when he was 12. He had his very last airplane ride in my 1947 Stinson 108 in his mid 80s.
My dad taught me to fly and in 2021 we flew our Stinson out to Oshkosh for the 100 year anniversary of Stinson Aircraft Company. It was a really special thing to get to do with my dad. Hoping to have the airplane back out there this year for the 80 year celebration for the 108 series 🤞🏻
A-10 did a practice run on me off my right wing. 90 degree intercept and dove below me. He was having fun. I was, too, once I figured out I was still alive and not in an active TFR that I just busted into. He pulled along side us, gave us a thumbs up, and then punched it and disappeared. Extreme pucker factor there for a minute, but definitely a unique experience.
Shooting phase 2 fast rope approaches (fly directly at about 2/3rds height of the building, then flare to drop airspeed and climb to your target fast rope point on the roof), to the top of 100 story skyscrapers in LA, dropping pax and nosing it over to fly between the other buildings. All at night.
Most fun I've had flying.
Flying near Whiteman AFB and talking to the Whiteman approach controller, we were head to head with a B-2 and the controller asked the B-2 to give way to us (in a single engine piston). The controller called our traffic, and we saw him before he turned to give way, but then we lost sight. I told the controller we had lost visual on the B-2, and the controller said “well, it is a *stealth* bomber” ..
Yeah - I fly regularly through the MOA just south of Whiteman, and it’s a little bit unusual to see a B-2 on the ramp, but pretty common to have one doing airwork in the area.
Couple years ago for my birthday my wife and I landed our Cherokee at Roy’s on Route 66 in Amboy CA. It is an unkept BLM land dirt strip that not a lot of nosewheel pilots go to. In general not a lot of planes land there, one every once in a while.
The random tourists passing thru in their cars treated us like celebrities. Cameras everywhere, asking questions, just blown away we landed an airplane at this middle of nowhere Americana relic on Rt 66.
So that was fun.
I got ten minutes of stick time in a B-17G. It’s not that unique of an experience, EAA used to send Aluminum Overcast all over the US, and members could buy rides for a fairly large sum ($500-ish back in the late 90’s. While in the cockpit, I asked one of the pilots if the plane had a lot of adverse yaw. He said “See for yourself” so I did a bunch of S turns with varying degrees of rudder. Turned out that there was a LOT of adverse yaw. What surprised me was that even without any hydraulics in the controls, the rudders didn’t need much force. Ailerons were very different. Flying a B-17 was quite the upper body workout
Flying with YouTuber “JustPlaneSilly”
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***A write up from Bryan Turner, January 13, 2014***
Thought I would take a moment to brag on Michael Farlow, aka “Aggie Mike.”
I had the privilege of flying with him yesterday. It turned out to be a very interesting flight and I learned quite a bit. I will do my best not to exaggerate so Mike, let me know if this all seems accurate.
So there we were in Full IMC. We had just lost the left wing. I screamed "We're gonna die!" Mike rolled his eyes and said "I've got this!" He punched his fist through the window and held his left arm straight out. It took a couple seconds of playing with the angle of incidence but he got his hand angled just right and the plane started to level off. I couldn't believe it. I just looked at him in amazement and said "You know that window opens right?"
He just asked if I was going to keep being a little girl. I stopped crying and said, "Ok, I trust you lets finish the flight" He stared ahead and said "Flight? This is nothing. I don't even log a flight unless I take a lightning strike."
The winds were out of the north at 120 kts and out of the south at 80 kts. we were flying sideways with the nose pointed straight up between the battling winds. Then it happened. "THUNK!" Bird strike on the right wing. It knocked part of the flap loose and we started pulling to the right. The right flap was partially deployed and causing a lot of drag.
I asked Mike "Is this a problem?" He responded "Let me show you a little trick I learned at the culinary academy."
He pitched down toward the flock of birds (rare breed that only flies south through freakish storms)
"What are you doing?" I screamed. He said "we have two choices. One is a tail-slide into the flock of birds hoping for a strike on the back side of the right wing which will reverse the damage. Or we can do this."
We dove into the flock with his left wing er... um arm targeting the flock of birds. I closed my eyes. THUNK!
I opened my eyes and saw he had grabbed one of the birds (a large duck) out of the flock. He said this would create an equal amount of drag on the left side so we can press on. We had a couple hours left to fly and doing this would make the trip more fuel efficient.
… …
It was quiet for awhile. Mike was flying, I was scared. The duck was pi$$ed. I was taking it all in and I just said "You are like the Chuck Norris of flying."
Mike said: "Who?"
"Nevermind."
We had flight following and mike spent most of the flight letting the tower know about traffic advisories. We had the airport in sight and Mike asked for frequency change and the tower kept asking mike to stay on with them. Mike told the tower he couldn't and had the tower squawk VFR.
We lined up for the only runway available, 39 and the wind was directly across the runway but it was mountain wave so for most pilots certain death. He lined up, and the plane started to tip right as we slowed down. I said "what is happening?" He said not to worry, that his arm has a lower stall speed then the wing. He added left aileron to create more drag on the right wing. Just then, the left wheel departed the aircraft. He was too focused to care.
He talked me through the landing.
"Okay, I am over the numbers"
"Rounding out"
"Just before we touch down, I will release the duck to increase drag on the right wing will allow us to land on the one good gear on the right."
We flared, He let go of the duck. It flew off quacking loudly and sadly was immediately struck by lightening and killed.
Rolling down the runway holding level with his hand and aileron deflection, slowing down, he kicked the door open and put his left foot down to prevent damage to the belly if the aircraft. I could smell the rubber burning off his shoe as it dragged along the pavement. Then I could hear his foot cutting a ridge in the runway after all of his shoe had burned off.
The plane stopped and we taxied to parking. We grabbed lunch and headed back to the airport. The flight back was pretty uneventful. I think we both slept through most of it.
At any rate, I thought I would share.
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Ok, all B.S Aside, I did see the most intense crosswind landing yesterday. I think it was 22 gusting to close to 35 (feel free to correct those numbers mike). Mike will tell you I was pretty contorted, looking for things in the plane to hang onto while he was slipping it in. I was stressing out but he worked hard and did an amazing job of landing that plane without so much as a bump.
Very good flight. Great learning experience.
Thanks Mike.
I've been onboard the presidential aircraft of 5 countries. (USA, South Korea, Norway, Netherlands, Poland).
Got flown around by John Glenn in the Ford Tri-Motor.
Through an aviation group I was invited to a small tech company fly in where I got to meet someone famous enough in computer programming to have his own Wikipedia page. I didn't work for the company but I had aviation connections that got me there.
JATO takeoff and full demonstration flight on *Fat Albert*, on the flight deck, on headset.
Many dozens of NVG takeoffs and landings on various Navy ships, both big and small decks.
1hr ride in the B-25 *Pacific Prowler*, just behind the pilots in the radio operator position. Got to crawl through the tunnel in-flight to the bombardier position as well.
Had a flight of six F-22s behind my KC-10, over the Nile River. It’s a great picture.
Formation flight with another KC-10 over the Northern Territories, with the aurora borealis as the backdrop.
I was holding short on my first solo (attempt) when tower called and told me to taxi back to the ramp. Another aircraft in the pattern (on a multi-engine checkride!) needed to land with the nose gear up.
Wasn’t a terrible omen. Successfully passed my ATP checkride 10 years later with no busts in between.
PS the multi applicant passed his checkride.
Acting as observer for a B17 checkride, when you get close to stall the buffet on that thing is insane. Steep turns are great too!
Flying on a B17 with a WWII B17 veteran onboard was amazing too.
Doing aerobatics in an extreme decathlon with a retired F16 pilot.
Flying an open cockpit PT19 through the middle of nowhere at low altitude, just navigating by railroads and roads, with some 40s jazz banging in my Bluetooth headset.
Flying hand-propped antique taildraggers is legit niche, and lots of fun. The 1941 Taylorcraft B that I learned on started life as a seaplane flying submarine patrol of the coast of MA during WWII. After the war, they put wheels on it. Pilots were little back then.
I was able to read the entire 4 page POH in five minutes.
I was in the air between Bakersfield and Palo Alto on August 10, 1996, when the worst power outage in history hit the west coast. Utter blackness from Tijuana to British Columbia. I was monitoring Bay approach and was hearing talk like it was dark, but I still had no idea how total it was. I came into the bay area from the south, under the class B, as usual, and everything was as dark as the water usually was at night. Luckily, people still drive during a power outage, and I could see and follow the highways around to the west, as usual, so it wasn't super difficult. The runway edge lights were on battery backup, but they were dim, and so was the landing light, so I was extra focused, and I made one of the best landings I ever made.
About 20 years ago, I worked as baggage handler for an airline that got new 777’s. Managed to score the jump seat when they flew one empty into a nearby airshow for static display.
When we arrived, our parking spot wasn’t ready so we shut down and captain opened the overwing exit and 4 of us onboard walked out to take photos on the wing.
As a young KC-135 copilot my aircraft commander requested a flyby of the USS Saratoga down near Puerto Rico in late 1991. Flew past so low we were looking up at the deck. Unfortunately the Captain of the Saratoga called back to thank our squadron commander for the awesome flyby and got busted for doing something we weren't supposed to be doing! Got a great story out of it and an ass chewing!
Sitting in the cockpit of a Mk IX, 2 seat, 6 blade, Merlin Rolls Royce 12 cylinder supercharged aircraft, while it was still in a wooden shipping crate from Bombay India… And there was another one in a box behind the one I was in. Somewhere in KS. 70’s. Still remember the smell of aviation. The wings and other such appendages were in a third wooden shipping. Crate.
Dozing at an aisle seat in a 747 in flight, with my arm hanging in the aisle and felt something wake me up. Black cat strolling by had brushed my hand.
I completed an FAI Silver badge last year. Its basically baby's first cross country flight in a glider.
But apparently I was one of eleven people in Canada to do that last year.
Departed an airbase in a Black Hawk and had a U2 flying a few hundred feet over me, visible through the skylight.
Dropped pax at the E4B.
Landed at and entered Raven Rock.
Had F15s doing circles around our flight when we had Patraeus on board.
Flying the AH-64D in Afghanistan, my PC selected and fired high explosive rockets instead of illumination rockets during a joint SF air assault and we spent the rest of our station time trying to find where they hit instead of supporting the mission.
Got to fly a civilian helicopter (Schweizer 300C) directly over the field and F-14 flight line at Oceana NAS in Virginia in 2002.
t was the 4th of July and the airfield was closed so Oceana Approach vectored us directly over the field. We had a scheduled balloon drop nearby for a 4th of July event and had permission to be in the airspace.
Cue Fortunate Son!
You're gonna have to elaborate a bit on what you mean.
I guess landing in a swamp next to my sling load of pipeline lubricant that turned out to be leaking and struggling to get the barrels out of my net so I could leave before my skids sank so low into the swamp that my tail rotor would touch the muck. Seems pretty niche experince.
Anyone looking looking for niche aviation stories should check out this guy's profile. He's done multiple long write-ups about his experiences flying helis. Solid dude and great pilot. Good to see you again, CotW!
Oh another good niche one I remembered.
Chasing young male black bears away from fire fighters on a very active wildfire. These little idiots must have been only recently separated from momma bear and like many young males of all species hadn't figured out the world yet and thought they were tough shit.
Most black bears want little to do with humans. They are the bear that you make yourself look big and talk to calmly to convince them to go away. Normally they run off pretty quick.
Not these two. They really wanted to play with the fire fighters and would not take the hint to leave. So I got called in to give a little more "incentive" to bugger off.
Great fun doing some low passes and then after that didn't work I got right down low into the clearing and basically had a stand off with them. When I charged them they gave up and ran. Still came back a bit later and I didn't play around that time and immediately went low and aggressive at them. Seemed to work after that and we never saw them again.
My wife always says it's not fair how my work stories go. "What did you do today honey?". "Oh nothing much, put some water on a fire and then chased some bears for a bit. Dinner was cold when I landed though so it was only an ok day."
I’m just a lowly CFII, who’s only been flying for 2 years, but I’ve flown around Devils Tower - that was fun. Flying the ILS 14 at KGLS, over Lake Pontchartrain, and over the beach near Pensacola were all cool too. I also had a 737 hold short for me to land at KICT on my way to my CFI ride.
Diamond Badge 971 in soaring. Held four Indiana state records in soaring at one time. Am part of the state record in Kentucky the largest skydiving formation. Aviation has been good to me!
Beale Approach instructed me to maintain 3,000’ or higher as there was a SR-71 in the pattern. We could see him shooting T&G’s as we flew by. This was in the 1980’s.
Flew over the Golden Gate in a P-51.
I've ridden jump seat in a aerial fighter doing training drops,
Flown into and departed ATL in a single engine piston
Flown the warbird arrival into Oshkosh.
Idk how niche any of that is, but those are probably the most notable experiences I have
Number 3 in the pattern behind a pair of C-141s at an uncontrolled field.
Flying south adjacent to an Air Force base, two F4's flying closed traffic dropped flaps and gear to slowly pass me from about a quarter mile to my left as I passed parallel to their runway. I was in contact with the tower, of course, and they called out "Traffic at your 7 o'clock, two F4s will be passing on your left."
Got visited by DEA when a friend and I landed on a dry lake in the desert for a picnic with our girlfriends. They came by helicopter, chatted for a few minutes and decided that we weren't up to the sort of no-good that they're interested in.
Visiting Hiroshima, Japan. Then, three months later riding as an observer in the flight deck of a Boeing B-29. Sobering experience to see history from two vantage points.
Flew in an AN-2 over Berlin Germany
Flew in a DHC-7 from JFK to BOS
Flew in a Do228 a few times
Drove the airstairs up to AF1 so George W Bush could disembark from the VC-25
Flew various celebrities over the years.
Got to take part of an international air show in Slovakia. We were parked next to a B-52. The local air force gave us tours of their MiG-29’s. Pretty neat.
Most of mine are formation related.
Did one of the first air to air shoots with the Blue Angels when they transitioned to the Rhino.
Did some of the photo work for the last ever flight of the Philippine Mars.
Did a shoot with the entire Blue Angels delta + 2 others.
Did an air to air shoot in a Sovereign with a T6 as the photo ship. Can't imagine that combo has ever been done before.
[I flew through the 2024 solar eclipse in a paramotor at 9k feet](https://youtu.be/tWSbW5VwjCw)
I had the thought that everyone was going to be looking up, so I didn't need to worry about getting a photo; there would be plenty. I figured very few would be looking down, so I did that instead.
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