Recent content by Matthew

There used to be a local IAC contest near me. I didn’t compete but I did volunteer. Running score sheets from the judges (the judges were usually pilots not flying that category), acting as a recorder for judges, grabbing water bottles, whatever. I was a low time pilot back then and learned a...

Of course, why is that even a question?

I just signed up to judge another contest, the American Royal Open, in Nov. It’s the biggest bbq contest in the world. The Invitational is the day before. I signed up for that, but there’s probably very little chance I get selected since they grandfather in last year’s judges. I’m only...

I’ll go back to my instrument ride experience: I’m ready, IACRA complete, can’t get a DPE to return calls for at least 8 weeks, with no ideas when I would even get a call back let alone be able to schedule a checkride. My cfii and I both thought it would be economical to scale back the 2-3...

Dudes didn’t even have to worry about a ramp check. Slackers.

Even the Wright brothers started out with no clearance.

Oooh, a retaliation for those spy balloons?

The new thread: “Thinking about being shorter”

Now I want to buy another knife. I don’t need one, I already have a good EDC and a handful of old Scrade two-blade knives. I pretty much just carry what I don’t mind losing. But I haven’t lost a knife to a security checkpoint in so long, maybe it’s OK to get a different EDC just because.

I don’t like using my phone as a calculator. The touchscreen doesn’t give the same tactile feedback as a real button. When I was working I did a lot of trig on my HP calculator. But the heavy lifting of statistics was done with Excel since that usually required large tables of data...

Same here. Funny thing: when my daughters both went to college they each had a small tool box with some good quality tools useful for nearly any small projects in and around a dorm room. Turns out a lot of girls had similar, I wasn’t the only dad like that. The boys kept asking to borrow...

Yeah, probably the only non-RPN HP made.

Oh, yeah, the famous TI multipress. Sorry, other than that, the only calculator I used for decades was the HP20S with batteries that last almost a decade. I can’t remember when or where I got it, but it still works. TI graphing calculators seems to be the brand that our high schools...

I’d go in with both hands tied behind my back.

That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.