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Oh, I'm comfortable enough flying the 182. It's a magnificent plane. I'm still scared of it a little bit. I was reminded of it recently coming back from San Diego at night, crossing over the grapevine in strong gusty winds (for me anyway, 20-40kt), having a stretch of almost 30 minutes of...

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Because you probably won't crash. Look, there is no magical threshold. The more you add weight, the higher the likelihood that the wing will no longer be able to support that weight, or that the landing gear will break on a rough landing, or any number of things. Is it certain to happen? of...

Yeah, mostly the members, but I'm told you can make arrangements in advance and be granted permission to land for a fee.

And then there's CA35...

They kinda are, actually. Even mine scares me a little bit every time I take it out flying, because I know how easy it is to screw the pooch. Heck, the whole notion of flying, even though I understand the mechanics of it, is still odd to me when I think about it hard - what do you mean the...

And yet, this is the best-behaved, most hard-working and productive, least criminal generation of kids in, like, forever.

So very true. I have a direct report that got caught doing meth about a decade ago, at a low time in his life, when he was young (early 20's). Did community service, completely recovered, rebuilt his life, just got married, invested himself into learning and working in a new field, and just...

This is a question each person must answer for themselves. There is a reward - a sense of belonging to a peer group, social acceptance, the high from the drug, etc. There is a risk - if you get caught, there will be repercussions, including the likelihood of losing your license and a shot...

Update: letter from my doctor hopefully addressing all of the requested information was in my mailbox this evening; just faxed to the folks in OK. Hopefully this will resolve the matter, I'll be following up with them midday tomorrow to make sure they got it.

And the "perfect knowledge" fallacy rears its ugly head again... this is a particularly noxious one, because it underpins the free/efficient market theory, which is all but a myth. Even the stock market with all the regulations on disclosures and information available to all market participants...

My kids and my girlfriend have all done that. They are the ones that fly with me regularly so they are used to it. Everyone else is too mesmerized by the experience.

Go see a doctor in another country and pay cash? I like the Disney reference.

No doubt... when this is resolved I will be here celebrating (hopefully) or planning my last glorious flight VFR into IMC and CFIT. (that's just a joke - honest - but I will be crushed)

Oh yea, the P-Ponk is awesome. When I flew to Santa Fe from Concord - about 800nm - I did it in a straight shot, no stopping, under 5:40h takeoff to touchdown, and landed with well more than an hour's reserve. You can do your own calculations, or if you don't feel like it, I can tell you I...

Ours is better than most :lol: I called the FAA again - I think they are sick of me by now - because of your post, and clarified, and they said that they don't care what caused the need for the extension, they will grant it. I am in communications with Dr Bruce as well in the background. I...

I DO live there!

Yeah, I filled out the inquiry form on his site, thank you guys for the suggestion. I hope he writes back [edit: he just did], I'd love to hire him. I am really panicking here because of this - I have slept maybe 4 hours in the past 72 because of this. It was a lifelong dream for me to get my...

Still trying to calm down. I also have a question to folks who understand this - Dr Bruce are you still here? - at the end. I marked it clearly so you can skip the entertainment in between if you'd like to be kind enough to answer and don't care for the rest. So my medical expired in August...

Says who? my 182 consistently does 135KT with no winds at <11GPH at 6500ft. Of course, it's a P-Ponk... :rofl: