Recent content by weilke

As to the 'why', it may just be that the leadership realized that excluding potential members solely based on gender did nothing to further the mission of the organization. As for the influence of urbanization. Some of the strongest troops are in suburban and urban areas where this is one of...

If you think volunteering for BSA is a buerocratic headache, try doing the paperwork to chaperone a girl scouts activity. My daughter had some sleep away thing and my wife was one of chaperones. I have bought houses with less paperwork than it took to get her through the GSA buerocracy.

Take off, ask for a more direct route. If the weather is suitable for VFR, you can always cancel.

True. Not much overlap in activities.

....and unless you live in one of be few locations with a troop unavailable. Scouting is a very local thing. My daughter tagged along with a gaggle of other sisters in my son's troop, but they were never allowed to do any of the sanctioned events. Eventually they peeled off into other...

That's mostly bc GS is booring. In most countries, scouting has been coed for a long time. I was a member of a coed troop in Germany 45 years ago. Keeping girls out of scouting is a unique american hangup, glad it's for the most part over.

Take a plea bargain and talk sh¡t about it the second it's final.

I'll add my recommendation for a in-ear headset. I have a A36 which is not great on headroom and the in-ear helped for that. I used to be 235 and my CFII had about 80lb on me. We had to throw 50lb into the baggage compartment to remain within forward CG.

That's actually less of an issue as the pointy stuff is at eye level and folks at 6'5" are used to ducking things like door jambs and light fixtures.

You have another 2in on me. I found that the Cessna products, even the 152 was good on headroom. Payload wise you should be able to take pretty much any student in a 172. You may rub shoulders. Best would be a 182, just not many people who will pay to train in one of those.

Prob better off with 2.4 if you have any shrubbery in the path. At times, those kind of setups work in the winter and get wonky once stuff greens up or needles get wet or covered with dew. There are some bridge products that are on proprietary bands so they don't have a interference issue with...

Yes. 2.4 is also better through drywall. But building to building with a clear line of sight that should not matter. If the OP lives in a place with 250ft between metal buildings, I would assume that 2.4 band congestion is not an issue (I live in a apartment complex where it is).

5.8 has nominally a higher bandwidth. If the traffic goes from your barn is to the Internet, that doesn't matter as your speed is governed by the ISP connection.

TLDR on the covid detour As an asthmatic, you don't want RSV. This used to be a virus that was only a threat to young kids who had damaged lungs from premature birth and to severely immunocompromised adults. This has changed, the brand of RSV that has been going around in the past year has...