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It's amusing that those who use the phrase "first world problems" don't actually know what the term first world means.

The reason that MRC01 has not responded is because there are no "regulatory definitions" of the words avoid and prohibited. This is not a case of "what the meaning of the word is is." These conventional words and their meanings, as used in an AFM/POH, can be found in a dictionary of American...

What, those are the "regulatory definitions" that MRC01 referred to? Source, please.

Okay, I'll bite: What are the "regulatory definitions" of avoid and prohibited? Please cite the source of your definitions.

You must have a degree in Lexical Polemics. It's not necessary to argue the difference between the terms avoid and prohibit, only to understand the meaning of avoid. I interpret "must be avoided" as meaning, don't do it. Your argument that it's okay to disregard warnings, cautions, etc. if we...

In a word, nope.

The 747 offered pilots a unique vantage point--it was the only big jet that I have flown that allowed a peek at the wingtips from the pilots' seats. But the distance and angle made it impossible to judge wingtip clearance with precision, as a few folks unhappily discovered. So yes, as Kayoh190...

You've received lots of good responses. It appears that the informed consensus is that, under the circumstances, you would indeed be setting your students up for a disapproval. Were I the DPE and our applicant attempted to operate the aircraft in a manner specifically prohibited or (in this...

Discretion is the better part of job security: I know of folks who had to fight for their jobs for posting stuff they were told not to talk about. Unless the smaller aircraft is stolen, or a rental. Well, that's how I used to do it, before I became too lazy to track-down the boom lift every...

I am privileged to fly an airplane with a 213’ wingspan at work, and even more privileged to fly an open cockpit biplane with zero forward visibility (on the ground) for play. Despite the vast and obvious differences between these two great aircraft, there is no difference in the way that I...

May I introduce you to 91.3(a).

Nonsense Also nonsense. NEVER rely on others. More nonsense The parking brake is the most effective threat mitigation device in aviation. On the ground. Stop, set the brake, resolve the issue. Continue. This goes beyond nonsense and borders on BS. Not sure which “they” you are referring...

You’re batting two for five.

In #141 I described it as flying like a bathtub, but I really like the lyric poeticism of your simile.

You reminded me of one that I had forgotten. BTW, CAAP = Citizens Against Acronym Proliferation, FWIW.

YGWYPF RW ATP/CFII/FET/MEI/AGI/IGI/BA/BS/YADA/YADA DSI, CAAP HA

Jake, The last time I attended BM was 1997. By then, the event had “jumped the shark” as far as I was concerned, a victim of its own success. Shortly thereafter, I moved into a space with a 50-yard line vantage point of the Folsom Street Fair, and spent the following 14 years inventing reasons...

As someone who has been, and continues to be “involved in the liberal arts,” and who has been to the playa, I disagree. Unless you remove “best place” and replace it with “a place.” But then again, subjectivism is a prime element of liberal arts, so anyone, or no one, can say what’s best. Oh...

Always late to the party... NealRomeoGolf, I wouldn't presume to try to talk you out of, or into, anything. But if you don't mind one more perspective... I have about 100hrs in a SR22, and if I were shopping for a traveling machine in the form of a late-model piston single, a SR22T would be my...