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For the sake of comparison, see this table listing a variety of engines by cc/HP. A top fuel drag race engine (which requires a full rebuild per "use") is about 1cc/HP; most auto engines are in a range of 12-15. Not on the chart, an IO-360 (5.9L) making 200 HP would be almost 30. That seems...

I was just reading another thread here where the pilot/owner told of his $75k airframe unexpectedly requiring a >$50k engine replacement due to cracks in the camshaft, crankshaft, and cylinders. Oh, and its AOG for a year. I cast no shade on his decision to bear up and pay. In fact I am...

"With a rebel yell, she cried 'More! More! More!'"

Those HDCP plans were cheap because they WERE insurance, not a prepaid medical scheme that included the cost of every aspirin.

Yes, everyone will need medical care of one kind or another eventually. I think far more people than you anticipate will need roadside assistance. When that happens, and your car is smoking on the side of the road, you have zero negotiating leverage with the tow driver. If they want to charge...

Hey, I was against Obamacare. As far as I'm concerned, you don't "HAVE" to buy health coverage either. But I digress... As a cash customer, my experience is that it was and is a challenge to pay a reasonable market rate for medical services in the US. YMMV. Hell, I once couldn't even get...

Do you have AAA roadside coverage? An equivalent through your auto insurer? How about 128 million households who pay $60/yr for membership to Costco? Its a very workable business model.

If you say so. Good luck with NHS.

Well, those leeches, as you put it, ended up saving me considerable coin, even after accounting for the costs they imposed on the provider (see, "back-office hens") and something for their trouble. YMMV.

I can't help but wonder how much of that cost differential reflects drug price caps that foreign governments impose; and manufacturers accept because the US economy is truly subsidizing drug development worldwide. From my POV -- taking into account my experience above of being rather severely...

Insurance is supposed to be a sharing of risk. You cannot profitably insure against what is inevitable for everyone -- like needing routine medical care.

I had an issue with my spouse needing an emergency dental extraction a few years ago. Due to an HR F*** up, my insurance (and I was not the only person to suffer this) was dropped at open enrollment. I wasn't notified of this fact until I tried to get an oral surgeon appointment on an...

Is that the model with the Tosche converters and the upgraded motivator unit?

We're talking about an off-field landing location. Those usually don't have taxiways. Nor runways lights.

Since you describe it that way and consider your description dispositive, it seems to me that two different levels of review took a good hard look at the evidence presented -- and couldn't agree on what exactly happened. Instead, they groped around for whatever rationalization seemed good...

Back to Mrs. Lovejoy, the aggrieved neighbor.

I'd love to see how the Big Brother pilots here would spin the case to hang Trent had he actually landed. It seems landing is the only way to prove that flying lower than 500 ft. was "necessary for takeoff or landing", even if doing do would have been "reckless and dangerous". Better yet, a...

"If I could read minds, officer, I'd likely be in far better financial condition than to be driving myself."

It's shocking how many pilots here can't possibly fathom how easily that THEY might someday soon be the pilot on the pointy end of the FAA's skewer. Keep counting on good luck and a "Big Sky" theory to keep you out of harm's way.

How exactly did he get the FAA to ****can its best direct evidence of where his aircraft was and when? Jedi mind tricks? Maybe the video wasn't quite so dramatic as the breathless neighbor Mrs. Lovejoy represented it to be...