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I just got a market survey for my former airport where a developer that owns the hangars at the Charlie 121-service int'l across town is apparently nosing to build a dozen bifold T-hangars. Their pitch comes to about a 400% premium over my last rate before the plane went kablewy last year. It...

whatever it is, in the context of a recreational owner, I'd hope it'd be a severe punishment outsized of the infraction. The only way we'll get more people to abandon the space and internalize the absurdity behind criminalizing the same action EABers are allowed to flaunt in plain sight, is to...

Ol' Patty must have been drunk-carting (again) when she said that, cuz that's just not correct. The negative angle of attack induced by the relative airflow direction of a wind-driven airfoil (as opposed to the engine-driven case), will pretty intuitively show you what direction the lifting...

yabut the "guild" is antagonized by your desire (especially when publicly expressed) to seek independence via regulatory relief. They complain about liability and your small fry work not being worth their time on one side of their mouth, then screech to hell out the other when you go ask the...

It's just I was asking the exact same questions on here and offline circa 12 years ago. Answer never changed. And that was in a very favorable, disinflationary decade in username checks fashion. BL, I'm just trying to save you the belabored evolution.

just go EAB now. Trust me bro.

didn't the latest reauthorization bill have some provision that indirectly addresses the kerfuffle about kango court trying to hang ya over go-arounds being blown out of proportion by the typical residential real estate NIMBY? I think if we could at least get some guardrails against tyrannical...

That picture still gives me goosebumps. Never gets old. Bar none my favorite picture in this life that doesn't involve my kid. What an experience that must have been. It is a beautiful planet. 110+ billion homo sapiens sapiens conservatively so far come and gone, only a few witnessed that in...

I suppose involuntary manslaughter could still be pursued if they could establish he was violating FARs leading to the subsequent fatality. Slight tangent: In all reality, it's the financial penalty of a civil wrongful death suit that would be of higher import to a retired airline pilot, vis a...

Not an annual, but yeah, I experienced that. Managed to sell it in one piece though, which was a welcome relief considering how busy and exhausted I am week to week these days on the work/home balancing front. In fairness to me, when you amortize the capital loss over the ownership period, my...

Don't give them any ideas....

That is a great attitude to have regarding IMC recency; we'd have more folks and their families alive today if they took a similar professional attitude towards the proposition of recreational IMC.

Well, when I do any sort of self-help I'm called a scofflaw or a cheapskate, but please more of the victim-blaming serving, I'm running low on dessert.....

I respectfully disagree simulators only reasonably serve as part-task/procedure-trainers. As a career instructor, that experience has made me of the opinion any non-motion sim with sufficient peripheral view limiting and/or wrapping (>180 deg visuals would suffice) is an excellent and economical...

Oh, so we're finally admitting the pervasive nature to pencil-whipping in this space, endemic to a regulatory environment that economically incentivizes said dereliction. Good, we're making progress here. Remember, it's either a pervasive, or it isn't. It can't be both just to shoehorn a...

I'd have zero hesitation logging that approach towards the 6 count. Part 91 guys get a bit of a bad deal when it comes to these allowances, especially the unjustified resistance on the part of the regulators to let people count flight simulation devices like DCS platforms. flight sim has come a...

Post above have hit the highlights regarding the Arrow gear system. I had one of those with the rube goldberg auto extender. It was actually more patronizing than that. It would also keep the gear from extending if the pressure switch or connections, or diaphram, was on the fritz. Mine started...

It's more of a consent type of thing. You spring proverbial 7 on 7 off, or heck 6mo on 6 mo off for 20 years (hyperbole, even for most of the military, submariners probably exempt) up on someone who didn't sign up to be a part-year single parent, and yeah I think the grievance is warranted. But...

^^^^^Excellent article. Hits it right on the nose regarding the genesis of the controlled opposition by GAMA. Back to MOSAIC: Vaporware, and moot anyways. [prospective] Owners of standard AWC spam cans wanting to enjoy the LSA largesse are going to be disappointed. I understand the...