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Some of us have a family member who needs us to be at home every day. Some of us are traveling with our family and cannot be home to move the plane. Some are in public safety or essential employees at work and cannot leave the area. Most of us aren’t so arrogant as to come down on someone else...

I bet that it’s more to discourage operations due to whatever the objectionable factors are.

I was thinking not just living at an airpark, but ours particularly. What a great group of friends our neighbors are! We have a really closeknit bunch and do things together almost every day. I’m sure almost every airpark is the same.

Our RV-8 had a lightly tinted canopy. It helped and did not inhibit vision. If I get another RV, though, I’ll go with Jet Shades. Our neighbor has those in his Bo and they are excellent - better than tint, by far.

I’m really happy with living in an airpark, but I’m getting less than completely sure that we’ll stay in Florida. No state income tax and gas is cheaper, but property tax and insurance are very high, plus health care sucks. Way too many low-performing doctors from Caribbean medical schools who...

For my endorsement, we did slow flight, power on and off stalls, incipient spins to both sides power on and off, spins both directions from slow flight and power on stalls, and incipient spins from a skidding turn. It was a blast, one of the most fun flights I’d done. The ground portion...

Sounds like another video coming up! “I flew this plane into lightning to see what happens” … do it!

In 29 years of law enforcement, not once did I ever have to fight with someone who was stoned, respond to an assault following someone smoking weed, or handle a coroner case where marijuana use was attributed to the death. On the other hand, if alcohol didn’t exist, law enforcement and court...

And not graduating people who aren’t cutting it. We need to quite giving eighth and tenth chances to students who can’t safely land a plane after dozens of hours. CFIs and flight school owners need to learn to say no.

The civilian flight world needs to adopt a similar approach. People really should be self-deselecting, or at least accepting their limitations and flying within their personal envelope. Not every pilot is suited for high-performance aircraft, or IFR, or acro. We’d have fewer pilots and planes...

The physical certificate will not have an expiration date printed, but privileges still expire if not renewed. The FAA just doesn’t need to print and mail a new card now.

One of the coolest things that happened during instrument training was a failed AI. It didn’t go quickly. Over a 10 or 15 minute period, it was gradually contradicting the rest of the panel. It really reinforced a proper scan, a lesson never forgotten. It had failed internally, a bearing if I...

Washing out unsat students is a big one. The military instructor pilots weren’t wringing their hands and doing whatever the equivalent of social media of the day asking other IPs “what can I do to pass this student who has been a failure at every level?” They got rid of students who couldn’t...

Not only was all of their time in tailwheels - more challenging planes than Champs and Cubs, their lives had revolved solely around flight training, they had been through multiple layers of vetting before being accepted for flight school (unlike civilian pilots, who only have to have a credit...

They’ve done that on other sweepstakes - work with the winner’s friends and associates to set them up for a surprise in person with the plane. A bit better press and more fun than just sending an email saying “hey, you won, call us.”

There was no emergency according to NOAA. They stayed in the eye to drop some probes, sounds like some type of drone. https://www.newsweek.com/plane-hurricane-helene-florida-update-1960193

He sounds a lot like Bill Brasky.

No kidding. I got this firsthand from an ATF agent as to how they had jurisdiction to charge a convicted felon for possessing a firearm. The suspect was in California, and the shotgun, a Remington, was made in New York. They got records showing that at some point in the gun’s history, the gun...

After living in California for 38 years, being gone for six years after moving to Florida, and driving back for a visit, I am even happier that I left and have no regrets.

Probable cause isn’t needed for having a K9 sniff the air surrounding a vehicle. Open air is a public place with no expectation of privacy. You can’t detain the occupants longer than necessary for the original stop while waiting for the dog, but in the case of a plane crash, a sniff while...