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Yup, on the FB RV marketplace I follow, there continues to be an increase in listings, as well as an increase in "finance fell through" re-lists. Latter which is music to my ears, as it actually affords true price discovery in this so-called market. To wit, pricing on a few units are already at...

I mean, trollin' white sneakered nerds who take that carnie too seriously is not my going in plan for retirement, but it's entertaining to watch. Now, ducking out from said carnie, volunteer fuzz in rudderless pursuit, while the perp's in crutches, and gets away lol. Take away his uncharitable...

It's likely he'll get sacked too, as should also the SQ/DO. I find that angle of the AIB weird. Normally, it's the purview of the squadron commander to assign people to the Assistant Director of Operations role (ADO). The OG/CC wouldn't normally be principally involved in such low-level admin...

meh, single pilot airplane, definitionally not complex enough preclude single pilot recovery but allow dual pilot recovery. These things are overpowered saratogas, sorry if that offends the ego of owner/operators of the type. One could just admit upfront to a reflexive/emotional aversion against...

You did the right thing. O-4 to O-5 is slightly under 500/mo take home delta, depending on tax brackets in post .mil life (second career income, working spouse, et al). It's not game changing money. To wit, social security is still a bigger inflection point for retirement income, at least it...

The problem with Active Duty is that they make you pull 2 sorties a day, plus weekend cross countries, but then they also expect you to do all the other 6-9 qweep jobs on top of it, so 12 hour days become the norm and people burn out. We're keenly aware of that dynamic, which is why we don't...

Not causal, but gratuitous T-tail choice FTW. /s this one's so typical on my neck o the woods, we even have shorthand for it on daily RSU comments: EPP HSF FT. (early power pull, high sinking flare, firm touchdown).

Tailwinds sir, your contributions will be missed, the forums won't be the same without ya. RIP.

There's no moral appeal you can make to curb this dynamic. The only inflection you can hope is maybe underwriters creating access floors based on discriminators well inside the pt 91 regulatory thresholds (age, recency, outsized recurrent requirements, solo restrictions). Maybe some relent and...

They also do something we internally call RAP (Ready Aircrew Program) bingo, aka musical chairs. In short, they alternate batches of crews who will meet RAP that quarter/month while mothballing others, and then flip the schedule to catch up the runt next quarter. The end state is they have a...

In fairness, they went harder during Bent Spear '07. I was an FTU student right as it occurred, it was wild to witness. Weeks of milling around because all IPs were decertified pending an enterprise wide revalidation. It wasn't a fun place before, and sure wasn't a fun place immediately after...

crazy right? Powerplant pricing is the death knell of this recreational space. Kicked me right off airport property last year, no cap as my Gen Alpha kid likes to say... good luck.

yup, a complete clownshow, I was gonna do the big debrief on all the ways this crew doesn't deserve to retain the quals they held that morning, but I already ruffled feathers over on the mil site, so I'll let this one sit. This was just public confirmation of what my rumint/bomber-bro network...

wake turbulence. :biggrin:

....or (c) materials fatigue. Unless you think not prophilactically tearing down a lycosaurus to replace case thrubolts and studs after every flight falls under (a) lack of maintenance. Heck, the irony being that such a logistics- and economics- non-starter of an action would actually give rise...

to say nothing of it is also in the same gentrification vein that sunked EAB affordability in the first place.

...you spelled moot wrong. By the linked article's own admission: "Cost is the main impediment to wider acceptance." Talk about burying the lead. Should have titled the article with it. I do vehemently disagree with their closing statement though. There's shameless pandering, but then there...

Ain't that the truth. Only time I ever ran into the weight category potato issue during my crew airplane days, t'was over that. Doing a legit "need to check that runway code stuff" into some intl civil field (CYQG) for an airshow, trying to put a Buff on it. Bunch of back and forth due to some...

iow, buncha wishcasting of little import.

Perhaps no night visuals for the coal rollers would help them get caught up on whatever deficiencies they got in their ranks, before they kill 150 bargain shoppers and everybody gets told to wear diapers. ETA: oops, too late.