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He could have been a CFI in another life. But seriously, he could have had his CFI revoked, he could have been a flight instructor in the military and never done anything to transfer it to the civilian world, or he could have been a foreign CFI with a foreign certificate.

Not a club I'd be interested in joining.

Not if you take as correct what you quoted. I can't recall the number of times people have stated that welding, medical and aviator's oxygen are different based on information that might have been true 50 years ago but is now considered old wives tales. Oxygen today comes from the same bulk...

Thanks for sharing. We all learned from it.

Anyone notice controller cleared him down to 3500 but he repeated 3000?

Visual aid for instrument training.

I would think an F-16 pilot, skilled in close formation, could easily slide into position to line up a shot very accurately. The terrorists in the cockpit would most probably never even know there was a fighter behind them.

Checked your reference and you are correct.

Has that changed? I always had to get separate civilian flight physical to fly any civilian airplane under the FARs when I was active duty.

Congratulations!

Syria had an extensive chemical capability both to produce weapons and to employ them. It didn't need anything from Iraq. In some ways it would have been a real problem for Assad to obtain, store, deploy and employ weapons from Iraq given their probable condition--possible but not practical.

It's called due diligence. If I asked to see the maintenance record for an aircraft I was renting and the owner/fbo refused to produce them. I'd call that a red flag. I'm not asking to take them home or even leave the room with them but if I were refused, I'd find another fbo/owner to rent...

They're not scoring a bombing run; + or - 10 degrees of what ends up being the heading is close enough for government work.

As an owner I worked out some preplanned weight and balance calculations and printed them out to keep in the airplane. I would look at the closest one and be able to see how the actual loading that flight would change to and see if it remained in the envelope. If it was borderline, I'd pull...

No one is saying you have to get on a scale or even formally write down a weight and balance calculation provided you, as PIC, at least mentally consider weight and balance. If, however, your loading on a particular flight, exceeds the envelope, and you have occasion to deal with the FAA, I...

You need to paste a sarcasm emoji after your statement or some people will think you're serious.

Find a different A&P. You can't legally remove a radio installed in a standard category aircraft without making at least a logbook entry to return the aircraft to service after maintenance since removing the radio is maintenance. Whether or not the W&B needs to be changed is up to the A&P to...

Wow. Now I understand why all those accident reports where the PIC filled all the seats with pax, loaded on their baggage, took on full gas, and crashed on takeoff, were perfectly legal because the PIC has no specific requirement under Part 91 to conduct a weight and balance. Exaggeration? Not...

There were most assuredly chemical weapons in Iraq before the invasion because Saddam used them against Iran before Desert Storm and after against his own dissident Iraqi population. At the time of the Bush Jr. invasion, however, all such capability didn't exist anymore. Saddam did a good job...