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Are you asking for qualifications which aren't strictly necessary to do the job? I see many openings posted with qualifications which just seem intended to limit the size of the pile in the inbox, especially when the first screening is done by an HR department. A local university was hiring a...

No. An increase from $20 to $60 is a $40 increase, or 200% greater. We've been bombarded with dishonest ads from car dealers and politicians for so many years we can't do honest math anymore.

Hannah's the cover model. The OP was about an ad in the issue, not the cover. Women's magazines are generally the ones pushing unhealthy skinny models on us. Men's magazines usually go for women with curves. All those beautiful women who were the inspiration for WWII nose art would now be...

This has been a fun and educational thread. I was talking to my stepson, Nick, recently about his urge to learn some basic (with a small "b") coding. I reminisced about the fun I had with the early Commodore VIC-20s and the 64. Learning to write code which would run within the machine's...

One oft-overlook consideration in choosing small cars with high MPG is the practicality of the low-rider front ends. My wife's Prius cuts it close on speed bumps, and can't even straddle road kill on the freeway. My mother-in-law's Corolla is much better, and mileage isn't much worse on the...

I know of one situation years ago in which the FAA came to a discussion of Sport Pilot/LSA with questions about the attitude of the community toward proposed changes based on posts they'd read on the internet. I doubt it's useful in many civil cases. That said, I'm amazed at how many people...

This forum and others like it are social media, too. It's amazing to me what people have posted about their activities, apparently assuming the media and the FAA don't look on the internet.

When I get collection robo-calls for other people on the phone number I've had for many years, I suspect people have submitted fraudulent loan applications with phone numbers picked at random, and have run up bills they never intended to pay.

Vance, in some of my early Part 61 airplane instruction my CFI actually noted "to commercial standards" in my log for tasks like maintaining altitude and airspeed, and I wondered why at the time, since I was training for the Private certificate. Now, it makes sense.

OP, If you choose the Sport Pilot route now, but want to hold onto the option to go Private later to fly the biplane, just make sure you get your Sport Pilot flight instruction from a full CFI, not a Sport CFI. That way the dual hours can be counted later toward the Private. But I'd second...

A real nugget among the loopholes in Part 61 is 61.31(L), which allows the holder of a Private certificate in one category to solo in another category, with no requirement for any training, checkride, or endorsement - IF the aircraft in that other category is an experimental. It's one of the...

Might be fun to rename your private strip "Objectionable Field" just to make the identifier correct again.

It's an ad. It's not targeted at you. Marketing thinks it will bring qualified prospects in the door, and is willing to risk annoying people who won't buy one anyway. Personally, I feel the better route is to run ads convincing people looking for an excuse to write the check that the purchase...

I found VFR navigation around cities to be even easier at night for this reason. Airport beacons can also be seen a LONG way off. I made a couple night cross-country flights after getting my Private in which I had the destination airport beacon in sight for the entire flight.

When I was learning to fly in the Portland, OR area, there were enough small airfields in the Willamette River Valley to always keep a runway within gliding range of a Champ or 172 by flying at 3,000' or higher. The unlit ones made the landing light critical equipment, but I took that risk, and...

I disagree. Greyhound had more legroom, was quiet enough to allow sleep, didn't charge extra for a carry-on, and at least you knew going in that the guy in the next seat might be crazy.

I had a different reason for cutting the cable. Comcast had horribly unreliable VoIP phone service, customer support so bad it could have passed for a parody, and when someone in their billing department stole my wife's identity and trashed our credit, the camel's back gave out. My OTA...

AOPA chapters? What would they do? EAA has chapters because the whole purpose of the organization is to mentor amateur builders, and much of that has to be done hands-on and in-person. The two organizations have very different focuses. I can't really fault Craig Fuller for what happened to...

As a 30-year veteran of the radio business, this thread has been fun to read. The growth of stadium shows has much to do with the technology to properly stage and promote them. When the Beatles played Shea Stadium in NY, they used the house PA system built for ball games. Even for $4 a...

I couldn't care less if he's illegal. Laws and liability precedent have become so oppressive today that I feel calling the cops is often the wrong thing to do morally. If a person behaves recklessly but is not endangering anyone but himself, I applaud his spirit and might even applaud his civil...