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Yeah, exactly. The rest of the people that did wrong way launches into traffic probably said, "oh, ****, my bad. Sorry! Here's how it happened" instead of "you have no authority over me". I've watched enough of these jokers in court that I feel fairly certain that the judge was doing little...

They reverse the thrust of the prop. :-)

This is an angle to investigate. I've never seen a protected waterway that prohibited motorized watercraft but would allow airplanes. They might exist, all depends on how the rules were written. But I've never seen one. Closest I can think of is some wilderness areas out west that prohibit...

The fishermen on this site might have concerns.

It was meant to support the general notion that unless otherwise prohibited it's something the states of implicitly endorsed even to the point of limiting liability. I explicitly noted that regulations do exist, giving the example of protected waterways.

I don't see anyone responding to this, so I'll give it a try. Unless specifically prohibited (e.g. protected waterways are a big one) it is legal to land on sand bars and in a friend's backyard. In fact, after a long battle, all 50 states now have recreational use statutes that protect...

Yeah, I mean at the end of the day it's a parking problem. Vintage already keeps expanding as more people keep showing up. So, can't really make the cutoff more liberal. I suppose you could make it more conservative, but it's already cutting off at 50 year old planes. That seems old enough.

I mean, it seems to work for you here.

Oh, sure. It totally makes sense. Just saying that it's not something I was ever taught and isn't on any checklist I've ever had.

So I wouldn't be allowed to buy them with my tax refund? :D

(1) Fixed-wing aircraft, must be at least 12 inches high, except that: (i) An aircraft displaying marks at least 2 inches high before November 1, 1981 and an aircraft manufactured after November 2, 1981, but before January 1, 1983, may display those marks until the aircraft is repainted or the...

I didn't see a way to look that up directly. But... DJI has a 74% market share. The drone registry has 864,000 total drones listed. Which would be 640,000 DJIs.

I definitely care. Been using them for years. Very happy with them and their ecosystem. Would be super annoying to have to change for, as far as I can tell, no reason. Show me a reason to ban them and I'm willing to reconsider. The reason so far seems to be "China bad", but in this case they...

Nope. A stroke is the asphyxiation of parts of the brain due to a blood clot or a hemorrhage. A symptom of a stroke is loss of control of nervous system functions. So the diagnosis of it being a stroke is the explanation of the transient loss of nervous system functions. Another reason could be...

Yeah, sure. I guess I'm looking the other way on that one because I can't remember if I've ever done a before landing brake check. I know my checklist doesn't have it, but think someone mentioned that his did.

Yep. That seems valid. And the pilot's comment imply, though doesn't outright state, that they didn't do that test.

Yeah, I'm not fan of Dan's, but by the time an issue became apparent a go around would have resulted in a much higher energy crash into the trees at the end of the strip. Based on what we know today, the second guessing should be on what might have been done differently to prevent the brake...

Yeah, it's like the morons who refuse to wear seatbelts because they "want to be thrown free". Even if you ignore that as being stupidly invalid even in a rollover, it also ignores the bigger deal that the vast majority of wrecks are not rollovers and now you're going to be eating your steering...

Including non-regulatory restrictions, like having the correct insurance in the event something bad happens.

That's a very fair point. The can I like is the one I like because I'm exclusively filling mowers, ATVs and chainsaws. i.e. things that you can rest the can on. For that, there is no better can. They are easier to use than racing cans and the auto-off when the fill is complete means no spills...