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  1. Datadriver

    American Airlines puts down deposit on Boom Overture Aircraft

    Maybe the Raptor dude went to work at Boom ;)
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    I bought an airplane. It was a lifelong dream. 6 months later, I'm out. (Reddit post)

    I've had fun dumping on the original Reddit post but the underlying issues the author complains about have been true for at least the last 20 years, and they are: Shortage of A&Ps to work on GA. They would return your calls and seek out your business if they needed it. They are perpetually...
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    I bought an airplane. It was a lifelong dream. 6 months later, I'm out. (Reddit post)

    Alternate title to the reddit post: "I didn't test the OBS knob so I gave up my lifelong dream after just 6 months".
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    I bought an airplane. It was a lifelong dream. 6 months later, I'm out. (Reddit post)

    The fact that this guy couldn't get good help in no way means "it's long dead and we've just been looting the corpse".
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    3 dead in chopper crash in Russian far east

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/bears-eat-star-athlete-rich-tourist-couple-after-helicopter-crash-in-rugged-wilderness
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    Can I file/fly IFR right away, or need to wait?

    The examiner has the authority to write out a temp, and you could have filed IFR and flown home in actual IMC on the way home. That's what I did.
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    Cirrus musings

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    What Did You Enjoy During Your Build

    The good: solving various problems The bad: thunderstorms over the metal hangar making it too loud to work The ugly: Finishing the build only to discover the single source of training approved for liability insurance(the kit factory) is not currently training
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    Part 141 instrument training?

    I went the 141 route for my instrument training. It was a good experience, I especially liked the "stage checks" done by the lead instructor. The lead would sometimes take my regular instructor aside and say "hey, he's doing ok here, needs some work there".
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    Dark Aero 1

    About Dark Aero, some of you have may have followed the project a lot closer than the rest of us, so does anyone know if it will have a temperature limitation? Asking because I recently flew a DA20, and there is a big 55c temperature gauge between the seats to measure the superstructure temps...
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    Dark Aero 1

    THIS
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    Hangars

    after 5 years of being outside it is going to need some paint, that's for sure
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    Robinson chopper down

    Yikes!
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    Robinson chopper down

    tail rotor visibly separated
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    Rental Pilot vs. Ownership

    My rental experience PIREP for today: locked out of airport, had to call and get code (gate has never been closed) airplane had brake fluid all over the outside engine compartment brakes petals doing some vibration thing they'd never done before (plane just out of 100 hour inspection) upon...
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    What’s going on with aircraft registration?

    Email them, they were sitting on my registration for an experimental for some reason, but I got it a week after contacting them.
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    Alice: Electric plane

    Wow, that's almost a half hour. "but Tesla" ;)
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    New Lightspeed Zulu 3 Giveaway

    About 6000 entries in the last contest
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