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Setting aside the legality, those boxes are pretty easy to open up and used good boards are readily available cheap on fleabay.

I thought I knew what night was but these days we might not know how to identify things we thought we could identify in simpler times. The approach to my field 0A9, https://www.airnav.com/depart http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2405/09816R6.PDF is NA at night. I've found about 3 different...

Regarding collections, we had many judgements from the many evictions we went through. The collection agencies we contacted all wanted a fee just to start the process. That was in addition to a significant percentage of any revenue actually collected. For us, with our tenant population, it...

Fixed. I had to clear cookies on Firefox to get the Cig numbers correct again on the AWC Observations page.

Just tried loading the page on Bing; it works properly on Bing. Firefox is the browser I am using that has the erroneous Cig numbers.

I contacted AWC with this question (and notified them that I had already tried changing the METAR units). They responded: Thanks for reaching out. There was an update to the units in the last couple days and some of the settings may have been reset. The METAR display units can be changed in...

I don't think John reads this forum. He's a VAF member I sent your way...

Still messed up for me. Here's screenshots as requested: Trying to troubleshoot this issue I found map configuration options > data > METAR > units on the right side of the AWS page. Under METAR units there is an option for: US customary, US aviation and metric (SI). Mine was set to US...

AWC is depicting 3 and 4 digit ceilings. See here: https://aviationweather.gov/gfa/#obs What does it mean? Example is KTRI showing ceiling as 1524.

Solar storm.

My grandfather told my dad that over his lifetime he had witnessed an erosion of freedom. My father told me the same. Your pocket knife is but one example of this.

A few more thoughts... At one point I flew a route where I would file through a waypoint at an altitude suitable for flying over the Appalachian mountains. It would always get rerouted. I realized that the waypoint and altitude was always used for arrivals into the nearby class B airport. I...

Takeoff and request different route from ATC. If no acceptable reroute offered, request cancel IFR.

Fixed that for you.