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You are talking what are basically resell antique markets which by definition are governed by different rules - frankly, if you think about it, GA industry seems like Bring-a-Trailer type of market …. also eerily similar to your typical automobile market in Cuba or what used to be reality in...

Always good to have options so having Rotax around with their ever more reliable and powerful engines is a good thing … and yes ..anytime we can eliminate mechanical contraptions and replace them with equivalent electronics , it is a win for reliability - I don’t know anyone who longs for good...

Your engine needs certain amount of air to function optimally. As it happens the higher you go there is less and less air available - so turbo is just there to “bring back” some of that air via tricks like compression etc … So you are not really going faster up there, you just maintain the same...

Answering to the American people is like not answering to anyone in particular … basically mostly free reign with occasional irrational funding spasms ( going in either direction ) motivated by completely outside factors.

I applaud everything he does with this - it is like having new budget conscious NASA at 1/10th of the cost.

To be honest your typical flight simulator back from 2000s already offered superior map and terrain technology than all current top of the line EFIS systems. Ironically, your typical synthetic vision display is using exactly the same type of pre cooked height map data (with some 2d FAA airport...

Good enough… having a conviction like that on his record will make his life quite miserable going forward unless he does not care in which case staying in prison would probably be an upgrade in the first place.

GRT avionics displays can do that…

It is not up to SFDukie to determine if Crimea is legally occupied or not , so stay in your lane boy and keep taking good care of your daily business before you worry about legal status of foreign lands thousands of miles away , lands that you know nothing about.

We saved lots and lots of lives by directly taking on dictators and regimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and on and on … Just recently , it took this country 20 years of sweat and blood, thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands of dead natives , not to mention tens of billions of...

You got here a truly winning argument …

It is suppressed of course, it is a dictatorship after all, but Russia is more like Nazi Germany - there is dissent but rather minimal and majority of people fully support the regime ( at least for now )

Was the Russian jet flying within a few hundred miles of US border or was it the other way around and it was US drone flying close to their border ? So ..who is inciting whom ?

We are no longer United States of 1940s or even 1960s … we are gender, race and trivial ******** obsessed, 10 minute attention span society with total aversion to risk and inability to sustain anything worse than purely symbolic losses. Compare that with a totalitarian nation like Russia when...

You are cheering for conflict escalation with a nuclear power run by aging and ,what some suggest , a terminally ill dictator. That is insane.

The thing is that there is no meaningful “missions” for CAP ,just as there is no real mission for Boy Scouts ( except indirectly as a leaning experience for young minds - albeit that’s debatable if that’s the right way of learning - to me this whole enterprise with Boy Scouts smells of “statism”...

So it is basically Boy Scouts for grown (at least outwardly ) men.

On my Garmin GDL 82 , if enabled , it wont transmit my tail number as long as I am squawking 1200 - makes sense and good enough for me and frankly covers most of these “ I don’t want to be seen” scenarios people keep bringing up.

Use the anonymous mode - I often see planes without any N number on my ADSB display and as long as you are squawking 1200 nobody will know who you are , including FAA.

Indeed. A few months ago I was flying with 1200 squawk code about 2 miles or so outside of KARR , D class airport ( they do have radar feed from nearby O’Hare B class ) and they called me with their generic “ Nxxxxx say your intentions “ so I assume they got my tail number out of some kind of...