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Wonder if they evacuated him three separate times? “Ok Mr. President it’s safe to come back… er, hold that thought.”

Always check those TFRs... "President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were briefly evacuated from their Rehoboth Beach residence Saturday after a small plane mistakenly entered restricted airspace."...

Doesn’t flight service have access to the same NOTAMS that pilots do?

Yes same here. Monthly fixed fee plus hourly dry rate (whoever flies leaves it full). One decision is what you want to recoup with the monthly fee. I just try to recoup a portion of fixed expenses (tie down, insurance, annual), but you could also include payments to a reserve fund for an...

I’ve written this in other threads, but consider a non-equity partnership where you rent your plane to a few known pilots. You get the financial cushion of splitting operational expenses, but have the freedom to fully own & manage the plane. I had a traditional equity partnership that had to...

Just taking early retirement after 25 years with NASA. It’s been a good run, but time to do some other things… hiking, travel, financially supporting my local A&P. I’d like to do some college teaching as an adjunct but can’t stand the thought of prostrating myself in front of some Dean...

$5 million? I’d probably just fill up the tanks on the Tiger.

Only took me about 3 weeks to get my FRZ PIN. Never heard of 9 months.

Sorry for the necro-post, but this video came up in my Youtube feed - and its pretty unbelievable. The initial call from the Citation occurs around the 4:20 mark. Kudos to the ATC controller for recognizing there was a problem in the cockpit. The pilot blew a BAC of 0.28 two hours after the...

Nice - bring her up to 20N!

That's not bad at all. Did you use Airtex for the interior & performed the work yourself? That'd be my preference but unfortunately I don't have any access to a hangar.

The spray can suggestion is funny. That’s what the guy who flies with me suggested. I quickly put that idea to rest.

Yep that makes sense, although I can see merit in waiting a year for the looming recession or some other point where shops aren't booked so far in advance. Then again, every other aircraft owner is probably making the same calculus, so who knows.

Thinking ahead a few years to when I want to sell my Tiger. The current paint and interior is pretty bad. What’s the consensus - is it worthwhile to repaint & upgrade the interior prior to sale? Pretty sure the answer is ‘no’ from a purely financial perspective but I’m also wondering if many...

I'd say falling prices is an indicator that asset inflation may be easing, as most economists predicted it would. Fuel is a different story...

Now that's a Youtube video I'd like to see - someone doing an IFR approach to minimums using only their iWatch as a GPS source ;)

I specified IFR in my response. What good do paper charts do you in IMC, with no radios and no GPS?

1) GPS is far more reliable than counting on a working VOR or glideslope in my experience. 2) I use an iPad mini with a yoke mount. I don't like the idea of blocking my view of the panel with a larger iPad, but that's a personal choice. I have no problem seeing enough of the sectional on a...

PilotEdge is much better. It’s fully staffed & the controllers know what they’re doing. Downside is that you have to pay $29 a month, but I just sign up for a month at a time to refresh skills & then cancel.

That’s strange… I seem to recall 30 straight years of US military activity in Iraq, Croatia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. I don’t think the John Lennon song had a big impact on foreign policy.