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Chicago Pilot

@pwkpilot.bsky.social
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Pilot, traveler, skier, former engineer, occasional unqualified political pundit. I post lots of aviation pictures and occasional questionable commentary about politics.

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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 23h
Great overhead views of ORD at 6,000’. The cargo ramp and T5 on one side, and the construction on D and E concourses in the other. #avgeek #aviation #flying #ord
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some days it’s nice to get into the clouds. #avgeek #aviation
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I feel it necessary to clarify that I will not be performing at the Freedom 250 event. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Flying helicopters is cool. That is all I have to say about that topic. Carry on…
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is cool. In a time when our country isn’t always at its best, it’s great to see what we are capable of when we put our minds to it and work together. #artemis #USA (and Canada)
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So if I understand this, we started a war without understanding the consequences, and then backed out with results that are worse than what Obama negotiated and Trump rejected. #clownshow #iranwar
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Atlantic coast #avgeek #flying
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/01/2026
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So just to be sure, is the “regime” in the headline ours or theirs??
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It is necessary to remember this today. Our country has failed to learn the important lessons of five years ago, and we are worse for it.
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Just watched the cancelled 60 Minutes CECOT episode. Great example of the Streisand effect. I would have never seen it had they not cancelled it. Embarrassing and sad that the US government is using foreign prisons. #60Minutes #CECOT #Clownshow www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It’s also looking like winter south of Chicago… #avgeek #pilot
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It’s looking like winter north of Chicago. #avgeek #flying #pilot
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
MAGA is going to love this precedent when the next Democrat to be President applies it to gun control. So much of the GOP indulging Trump is so short sighted. They are paving the way for their own demise. #clownshow
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Is it possible to contribute to a Democrat without involving the Act Blue perpetual spam machine? For example Mark Kelly's website routes donations to Act Blue and doesn't have a direct way to contribute that avoids trashing your phone number. #MarkKelly #ActBlue @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Anyone know if the FAA is following suit? This could cause chaos for airline schedules. #a320 #easa #faa
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I liked it better when his novel new word was “groceries”
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
MTG’s audition video for the role of queen of MAGA as the next generation tries to unseat Trump in his current weakness. There will be more suitors in this race. The weaker Trump gets, the more opportunists will jump into the race.
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is Mamdani’s “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” moment. Trump has always fawned over people with combinations of charisma, power, wealth, and popularity. Mamdani has enough of those things that Trump once again wants to be seen with “the cool kids” #mamdani
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The ongoing corruption in the Oval Office is too often overshadowed by the outrage of the day. This is important to pay attention to. Trump probably gets away with it, but we have to protect the country from the next Trump, to put better guardrails in place. #corruption #emoluments
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Way too much time in one of these seats and not enough in the other one recently. #avgeek #flying
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The importance of this is that whether or not you believe in MTG’s sincerity (I don’t), her saying these things creates cracks in the MAGA movement that give some voters the permission to break from it and break from Trump. She’s obviously distancing herself from something she sees coming.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is the immune system of a democracy that is being challenged. Its messy and chaotic, and its also the American Way... The people in the goofy inflatable costumes who are supporting fellow citizens are infinitely more patriotic than the red hats supporting a single leader... #nokings #USA
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So what exactly is the rationale for a 12 day low altitude TFR over Chicago?Is something about to happen that someone doesn’t want filmed by drones? Is there a real security concern? Thoughts? #chicago #aviation #tfr
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Lake Geneva WI #avgeek #flying #aviation
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Goodbye to Disney+/ABC streaming. Patriots don’t allow interference with freedom of speech. This country was founded on principles that are more important than entertainment. It’s not about what Kimmel said, it’s about whether politicians dictate what we see and hear. #freespeech #ABC #Disney
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Time to ignore politics and post a cool flying photo over the Midwest #avgeek #aviation #flying
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It’s sad that this is all too often true. The right really has to get back to having principles and not treating everything through a partisan lens. This didn’t used to be the case.
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Chicago downtown flight. Nothing like this view! #avgeek #pilot #aviation
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Oshkosh! (Enough said) #avgeek #airventure #aviation #eaa
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I guess to 50% of the country this is what a person who needs mental health help looks like, and the other 50% says “what the hell, let’s give him access to nuclear weapons…” #clownshow
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I would much rather be in the cockpit right now. This is the opposite of #avgeeking At least it’s only a week until #airventure #eaa #osh2025
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Not at all like fixed wing flying but definitely worth the challenge. Inching closer to soloing (again) for the first time in more than 30 years. #avgeek #r44 #helicopter #aviation
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This guy thought he was voting to “own the libs” and actually voted for Trump to own him
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
At what point does his base realize that the trolling isn’t funny and that governing should be a serious thing for serious adults?
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Lori 🇺🇦🐸🌊 @coalsmom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Full clip of the Grassley town hall from Cspan. Worth a watch. youtu.be/gbfPt8o8h5A?...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Exchange with Constituents on Immigration & Border Security
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Incredible opportunity to fly in the Swiss Alps today before heading back from #AERO2025 #avgeek #flying #pilatus
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lots of cool stuff at #AERO2025 which I mostly had to run past as I was trying to get places today #avgeek #flying
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Almost to AERO Friedrichshafen #avgeek #aero2025
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Glad to see Rep Bacon (R) stepping up and nudging Congress back to being an independent branch of government and not a Trump puppet. We need more of this (a lot more).
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Watch the Trump coin as the tariff “negotiations” start. It’s an easy place to hide corruption if he requires foreign interests to drive up the value of his crypto as protection money for companies and countries. #clownshow #corruption
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Sometimes when the world is getting crazy it’s important to just go fly something. #avgeek #r44 #flying
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Vertical Flight Society @vtolsociety.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The March/April #Vertiflite magazine is online! Read articles including Apache #helicopter modernization, reports from the TVF #tech conference and news updates on #China #eVTOL aircraft. Become a VFS member for more benefits as part of our international #aviation community: vtol.org/news/march-a...
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Fun with helicopters. First time at the controls of a Robinson. #avgeek #r44 #helicopter
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Weird weather in Denver earlier this week. #avgeek
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
And this is why I’m on Bluesky
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Chicago Pilot @pwkpilot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’ll give everyone one guess which headline is from @foxnewscorporation.bsky.social Distracting the masses from important things with frivolous red meat is absolutely part of the role of state propaganda. Be a real patriot and turn Fox off #foxmakesyoudumb #clownshow #tarriffsaretaxes
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Reminder that aviation regulations are usually written in blood and removing them or those who enfonce them doesn’t make anything more efficient, just more dangerous.
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