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The older Cherokee Six 300s will carry six full size adults and their bags, or seven with the extra seat. The club seating and huge doors make it easy. Cessna 205 and 206s can handle the weight, but require gymnastics and body folding to get in the back seats.

Recording? Nah, when we called collect, you got an operator and our phone numbers began with two letters. Ours were AL2-XXXX. Gas was $027.9 when I worked at the ENCO (Exxon) Station. Blue boxes were too expensive, But 2600..... In High School, we shared time on a terminal connected to...

That's their shopping list. They are smarter than you thought.

Unfortunately, the bad habits are never corrected because most military instructors have little or no civil aviation experience and don't realize the pattern is depicted to avoid overflight of hazards and usually houses. I started life as a civil airplane pilot and instructor and was shocked at...

I have heard some crazy interpretations of this and flying a pattern on the wrong side is definitely not how it is done. For non-training operations, taking off and landing as direct to the final spot on the airfield is the best way to go. Avoiding overflight of fragile aircraft and structures...

After finally realizing my eyes were no longer correctable with glasses, my eye doctor laid it out for me: my eye were shot... I had lens replacement surgery and it has been amazing. My vision is restored and I no longer struggle to see, especially at night. LASIC would not have fixed the...

That is a regular sight in Portland. Day and night.

We had VLF/Omega in a few Army Helicopters for a short while. It was decent RNAV, but not as robust as LORAN-C. One of the local airports here had its VOR/DME decommissioned and is now just a civil DME with no associated ATC function. Part of the Minimum Operating Network.

They did in Korea. They have their own more modern version. Accurate to inches.

Other than just plain yellow mustard, I like Korean Samjang on a hamburger. Try it! Vegetables are unnecessary distractions on meat.

I actually went to a live recording of a Bob Newhart Show episode. We applauded and hollered a little extra long so we could hear ourselves on TV. I wish I could remember which episode it was.

I did it all on my own dime, before any of this crap was mandated. After 1300 hours of CFI time in two years, I was more than happy to learn new stuff and get the ATP with no classes or extra training of any kind. I spent a weekend studying my butt off and took the checkride cold in an airplane...

I flew with too many Captains who were spiteful, grumpy bastards and did not appreciate my humor. Mostly the guys I flew with enjoyed my personality and requested me for the hard IFR flights.

Touch my ****, I'll kill ya!"

Believe it or not, the ATP AME is almost the same stuff, but with tighter standards.

I would go to a POA fly-in if it was within a couple hundred miles of Central Texas. You would think with all the Texas and Oklahoma POA members, there would be a get together somewhere near here. That, and I have no air machine...

Those are my people.

I will not live long enough to have access to a hangar within several hours of where I live. Now that I can no longer afford anything that will fit on a trailer and park in my driveway, it just doesn't matter... :mad:

Oh yeah, I practically lived in the coastal mountains and rode the whole length of Skyline, usually climbing Highway 9 from Saratoga and spent lots of time on the South side by Guadalupe Reservoir. On the other side of the bay, I rode up to the Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton. By the time I...

Hey! That's my old stomping grounds in the Santa Cruz mountains. I cruized every road in the vicinity of Lexington Reservoir (shown).