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Ran my name both through ChatGPT and the Microsoft Co-Pilot. ChatGPT is a reasonable summary... Ronald Wanttaja is an aerospace...

Ha. Gotta make the same trip next month as I did last month (Oshkosh). This time, smaller cars weren't even AVAILABLE. All they had...

Looked at the data a different way, some of the totals might be slightly different. This run, I had a total of 43,386 entries. Of...

Thanks. I downloaded the current airman registry, and each entry includes two columns on Basic Med: "BASIC MED COURSE DATE" and "BASIC...

Is that sort of data available? I know next to nothing about the program, is the FAA notified when a pilot switches to BasicMed? I'm...

Just for the heck of it, I extracted the accidents involving pilots on BasicMed from the 2018-2022 NTSB accident database. Odd how the...

Steely eyes, cleft chin, and whip-like reflexes.... :) Ron Wanttaja

...Not to mention that after a major EMP event, the distribution system for liquid fuels is likely to be significantly disrupted. Diesel...

The problem is expertise. We complain that the rank-and-file FAA guy doesn't understand small aircraft...imagine what it's like when...

Interesting to consider the crewed flights. Blue Origin's New Shepard is off the ground for about 11 minutes. First paying passengers...

IIRC, car I rented on Kodiak island about 20 years ago merely said the renter was required to clean out any blood before turning the car...

I always request a sub-compact when I travel. A lot of the times, they're out of sub-compacts and offer me a larger car at the same...

In my long-ago Civil Air Patrol cadet days, our promotions were set on passing tests on ~six books. You'd get a ribbon and a stripe for...

Indeed, and much blood has been spilled arguing over whose code is right. Ron Wanttaja

To an overwhelming extent, such codes were limited to those in the higher social orders. A British gentleman in 1850 might be taught a...