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  1. DJTorrente

    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    I think that neither I, nor anyone, should get to decide what is "excessive" profit. After 275 years, Adam Smith (of "Wealth of Nations" fame) is STILL right. Command economies have collapsed everywhere they've been tried -- to say nothing of 100 million people slaughtered because they were...
  2. DJTorrente

    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    Or it could just be naked rent-seeking enabled by restrictive government regulation. Who's this guy Occam, and why does he need a TSO'd, PMA, STC'd razor to shave?
  3. DJTorrente

    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    And the other 10,000 parts of the airframe, engine and avionics? Many if not most of which cost more than $400? If I grant you a nickel per part, per day, that's $500/day cost of ownership -- $180,000 per year. Thanks for making the point, even if unintentionally.
  4. DJTorrente

    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    But... "Free shipping". WINNING! :yeahthat:
  5. DJTorrente

    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    I just wanted to come back to this. As was discussed elsewhere, "If the cost of your tools is keeping you out of flying ..."
  6. DJTorrente

    What's For Dinner?

    Getting back to Chicken Fried Chicken...
  7. DJTorrente

    N/A calling Calculator Nerds - what's the best graphing calculator these days?

    I believe the TI-94 (?) is the model my spouse's middle school provides her math students.
  8. DJTorrente

    I think food should taste bad

    I understand the historic reasons that brewed alcoholic beverages were safer to consume -- particularly after storage -- than "fresh" water. That said, in today's age of easy, cheap and abundant filtration, sterilization, and refrigeration, I'm genuinely shocked at how prevalent drinking...
  9. DJTorrente

    Do airlines or employers care what kind of logbook I have?

    This discussion charmingly reminds me of certain former classmates -- in the paleozoic era when e-mail was a communication tool, but electronic documents were not yet ubiquitous -- who, when being forced to provide a 2-page resume to make it readable and not a block of microscopic text, would...
  10. DJTorrente

    What's For Dinner?

    By that you mean "F*@&ed up"?
  11. DJTorrente

    WTF, over? (Video of a bad landing and go around)

    Would you want to face anyone who just watched you do that?
  12. DJTorrente

    Picturesque sunset beach landing on Long Island

    About 120 miles. [But that's not what's important now.]
  13. DJTorrente

    Accidentally answered no to 18w on FAA medical… what now?

    But did the client know that she was waiving privilege by disclosing the communication before doing so? It may often be a waiver all the same, but better if it was an informed and knowing one.
  14. DJTorrente

    Ask Sac a question

    African or European?
  15. DJTorrente

    Amtrak service temporarily disrupted between Baltimore and Philadelphia

    "Trespasser" == Someone unauthorized on the tracks; They stopped train traffic to protect the Amtrak Police while they investigate. Why not fly?
  16. DJTorrente

    Is Dan Gryder the biggest asset to aviation on youtube?

    Don't you know better than to never read the comments? The previous few posts amaze me. Can people be so miseducated to believe that Debtor's Prison is a new concept?
  17. DJTorrente

    Headset Evaluation

    I shopped used Bose Ten (X) back in the day when the A20 was the new hotness. Those CFIs moving up (God love them) and needing TSO'd also needed money and wanted $900 for a used headset that sold for $950 new. Maybe they got that much, just not from me.
  18. DJTorrente

    Top Gun 3

    Then how the hell could he make "Red Tails" so forgettable?
  19. DJTorrente

    Top Gun 3

    The story of Part 3 could have been interesting: Trying to find redemption via the Church, but finding it wanting; passing the torch to the next generation; shielding his daughter the way his father tried to protect him. The casting they were stuck with, however...
  20. DJTorrente

    How much have Trent Palmer's legal costs been?

    The legal system, the "FAA" (EASA) silliness, the tax system, they are all one system. You can't quite pick and choose. They have plenty enough bureaucrats, who look and function a lot like lawyers do here. They don't have as many "lawyers" per se, meaning free agents, as we do in part because...
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