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:) I kinda think it's hilarious. And related.

Here anyway, UPS is way better than FedEx for delivery, but if I'm shipping I go to FedEx. UPS drivers are union employees, FedEx are at least partly contractors. On the shipping side, here I go to an actual FedEx owned facility to ship, where the UPS stores just rent a UPS logo and they're...

About the original guy, some people just freeze up on written tests. Some sort of panic thing. I think it's possible to fix it by almost over-learning everything, and by taking practice electronic tests. If he can fix a diesel engine he's not a dummy, but some bit of his head has convinced...

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Just noticed the helicopter part. You guys will be fine. No offense to the helicopter guys on here, but you guys are all a bit nuts, but also can certainly fly a fixed wing single. My advice is just to have fun, and to figure out if you're all on the same page about what the avionics and...

It's that thing that makes it so here I don't know anyone that doesn't have a nice lawn, and I don't know anyone who has lawn sprinklers. Oh, and that in the past X hundred years, I've not heard of a forest fire anywhere near this area - knock on wood - that has endangered a home. On the minus...

Not a lawyer. Did help out with a teaching kids to fly RC program. We didn't have any waivers. We did insist that at all times, no exceptions, there was never an instructor alone with a student. We also encouraged the parents to attend all sessions, and had parents present at all sessions...

If this is the one I think it is, I don't think the NTSB caught the revocation in their report. Not that it excuses anything, but how many times has this come up? I've read about pilots having accidents all the time that had expired licenses, but I don't recall reading one where a CFI was...

Just jumping to the engineering of it a bit, somewhere I just read that they're trying to sort out the behavior of the teflon seals as they change temperature and how that actually the ability to make the helium seal. As if this is the first time they've actually tested it across the...

Calvin and Bugs Bunny are two of my favorite Americans.

That's awesome! Congrats! It looks like an absolutely perfect place to be - runway, airplane, nature. Good to end the day reading about somebody reaching one of their dreams.

I'm not going to comment on the medical stuff. But I will say that if you have docs that say you're OK to fly now, that sport pilot sounds like a good way to start. You'll get in the air, and if you're with a regular CFI I believe all of your training hours will be count toward dual training...

....if you don't know how to uses the fancy door handles, it's not a good reason to just peel back the door instead.

They're not the same guy?? It's a good thing I'm not a parent. I would have wasted a lot of time trying to set tasers on "stun".

If I understand a long con correctly, it's acting in a predictable and responsible manner for a pretty good length of time, to build up credibility that can then be leveraged to take advantage of people's trust in the apparent good will built up. If that's right, it's not just Boeing, but a lot...

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We had a guy who kinda converted from a rifle guy, was on the Army rifle team, to a pistol guy, when he shot at a match in Puerto Rico in the summer. The pistol guys were all in shorts and t-shirts, while the rifle guys were wallowing around on the ground in the 100 degree heat in those heavy...

Very sad. From the linked interview, it was her gyro, he built for her because she wanted one, too. 2011 video: She pops into the interview around 6:46.

I guess I've been really lucky. Nearly all the helicopters I've been around were very courteous, and worked to stay in a separate area. Maybe because they were National Guard or life flight. The only slightly PITA exceptions have been down near NYC with sightseeing or news. Those guys...

Don't you get dizzy going round and round like that? I'm not sure I could do it without falling over. Turns about a point? Sure, all day. Turns about a point when I'm the point? Eh....