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First and most important, you are training to be a pilot, not a dessert specific pilot. Your most important flight in the future may be in Florida, Louisiana, or Oregon. There, if you forget to sump, the guy about to hire you will send you packing, as water in the fuel is a daily problem, and...

Many years ago I had a near miss with a Marine Jet. He was traveling at 300 Knots, passed directly in front of us, close enough that we could see that the pilot was looking straight ahead. We should have tried to read his aircraft number. We were on flight following, but our controller failed...

G-Man describes renting and flying this exact plane. It has 125 HP, and the track shows it as high as 13,1000 feet earlier in the flight. It is certainly capable of crossing the pass. For unknown reasons, it gradually descended to 8,600 at the time of the reversal, near Loveland pass, per...

Play that with frequent stops, and note the distance from the plane to its shadow. Amazing they made it.

Excellent training flight. The preflight planning was suitable for the flight, you paid attention to the airspace use as you approached decision time, and fit in the traffic. Kudos to the tower for being friendly and double checking the important parts of your request. Not all "touch and...

Master Pilot Award? How do you apply for that? Last PIC was Dec 2022, PPL Dec 1969, that is 53 years. At 90, you begin to think about what will look good in the obituary, even if in good health.

Md U still runs training, just no smoky fires. I was not entirely happy to be scheduled for fire school, as I had already been in 3 burning buildings. The worst, firemen would not go into the burning electric substation because the smoke was so intense that they could not see the floor. I...

I only read the first 80 posts, so this may have already been addressed. Most planes getting painted have not had a measured weight and balance since the last paint job. All the mods, repairs, and removal's since have been calculated, and the odds of an error is well above zero. The club...

I am currently 90 years old, and possibly 5 minutes from my first stroke. Due to my age, my friends tend to be old too, and not surprisingly, in the last 24 hours, I have had conversations with 4 people who have had small strokes. Not one of them is competent to decide if they are safe to...

3 DIT, 4 DIT, 2 DIT, DAH CREI, CREI, RAH RAH RAH Very inside joke cheer at ball games between Bliss Electrical School and Capitol Radio Electronics Institute. They both had very active Ham clubs, so code skills was a given for the students and players, but not necessarily others in the stands

Pretty sad snow tires, that kind teaches you the true requirements for successful driving in all kinds of snow and ice. I would have loved to have such a set of wheels when I was in High School, our budget was a bicycle. When it snowed, I still rode the bike to my paper route, but walked the...

In the general aviation world,. 350 pounds of firefighting agent is a lot. A skilled firefighter is a big factor, but my first adventure with a 100 pounder on wheels was a success on an oil fire. Gasoline is much tougher, but technique is the deciding factor. An engulfed fuselage from a burst...

Awesome trip, and pictures, Jim, and the smiles tell the other part of the story with the kids. I went out RT 66 in '63, and did do the meteor crater. It was less expensive then, and less controlled. I walked all the way to the bottom, my wife only half way was enough. Coming back from LA...

Defective concept, no steering tiller. Needs a shifter for baking up, presumably stick since the people old enough to use that know how to use one, and the efficiency is better. No seat belt, rollover protection, antilock brakes, no way that can be approved. Just noticed, that needs wheelie...

Cosworth Escorts were fantastic cars.

His 35 is not beats per minute, it is the puzzle number. Possibly % of his highest BPM?

Plain Escorts were lackluster, but the GT's were fun and fast. My 83 went over a hundred in 4th, continued accelerating in 5th. Great commuter, mix of city, and 3 hour country trips. 15 inch alloys with H rated tires cornered as well as my Porsche, but better gas mileage, with sequential port...

I think the King found the cost of enforcement was more than he was willing to expend. One of my best friends is a Great great.....grandson of a Hessian hired soldier who opted to take his pay, and stay here when his term ran out. Doubt that he was a seriously dedicated soldier for the King...

And his BAC was.............. He obviously did not consent to a field sobriety test.

The real right decision would have been an immediate go around, land at a very long runway. The mechanic there may not be cheap, but much cheaper than the present status.