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Teachers, yes Administrators, no A local school system came up with the extra money “needed” for additional buses to handle additional students (we don’t need to go into why there were more students). How? A couple of administrators resigned suddenly (insert scene from West Wing about education)

cheese

I went looking to see the hangar rents at KBED. My googlefu is failing or ma$$port is not making the rents publicly available. 16-ish years ago, the J row Ts at KBED went from $505/month to $606/month. With that increase I bailed and moved to a $85/month tie-down with the HAFB Aeroclub.

Duck!

um.

thanks a lot guys. now I have to try to make my own....

during one flight lesson, my CFI said "oh, there's Plum Island..." and then pulls the throttle for simulated engine out. I did a fine job setting up to land on a long empty parking lot next to the beach. My instructor said that was ok, but let me show you an even better place to land and...

In the my case, yes.

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It’s been a while (20 years), but my 140 gained around 60 lbs when it was weighed. Disappointing but a previous owner had the plane painted by a lousy outfit and I had made several modifications (adds and removals). We thought we did all the math and measurements correctly but…

tough

manufacturer

I'm sure drugs were not involved.

excuses

A recent episode of Slow Horses, one of the characters had a handgun fired to shoot off handcuffs (sort of). The audio after the shoot had that muffled hearing you'd get from a temporary threshold shift.

it's my understanding that TV and movie audio tracks don't use actual gunfire for the sound of gunfire. Apparently recordings of guns being shot don't read well, especially with viewers that don't have experience with actual gunfire.

cadet

otoh - I would not have much trust in a business that would nickel-and-dime me... especially if they had the attitude that anyone owning an airplane can just throw money down the toilet.

NASA (the old decmate II spellchecker would always suggest nausea to correct nasa)

avast