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What specific companies/industries do you think have monopolies/duopolies that are price gouging (at least on a broad scale; I'm not talking as much about very niche industries where those kinds of things tend to happen pretty naturally).

It's unfortunate, but some people just can't help themselves. I think it's their own insecurities that don't allow them to just use their own judgment on things; they want someone to tell them it's OK before they do it. Of course, that's the same reason Govt. employees never want to make any...

Cleared customs through FPR from the Bahamas this past Saturday. Knew we planned to leave the Bahamas before customs opened for the day, so called the afternoon before. Got an email with entry clearance about 30 seconds after I hung up with the customs officer. It's a dumb procedure for sure...

To me, what's lost in this conversation is the enormous responsibility that DPEs are given when they are designated. DPEs, in many instances, are the final "check" before a pilot is allowed to carry passengers (at all or for money), fly in the clouds alone, etc. Let's not pretend like that's...

Either Approach Fast Stack and/or Ron Nelson (https://www.nelsonaviationfl.com/) can build you a harness. I'd use them, which leaves you with a much easier task list of just doing the physical install, running the wires, and likely making only a handful of wire terminations yourself. If...

Just don't. A friend of mine put a BK Aerocruz in his airplane to replace a KFC150. It's been nothing but problems, and BK refuses to provide any support to the dealer.

Must be something like that. Hacked email server, intercept before actual delivery, adjust and send on. Pretty sophisticated operation at that point, but hard to otherwise explain why the email sent does not match the email received.

If you're wiring money, make sure you're calling a known-good number to verify, orally, the wiring instructions. Current sophisticated scam is intercepting emails and changing wiring instructions to the hacker's bank account. Saw it almost happen recently on a $$$$$$$$ wire transfer at work...

I find it fascinating when people feel the need to "protect" public figures. Guy puts himself in the public light, and some people feel compelled to go out of their way to make people stop offering negative commentary about him? Why?

K15 is great, but there are no hangars. Rarely is the weather so bad one is necessary though.

I'm a (former) part of the Twin Bonanza group, and we always appreciated the Vintage folks accommodating us as an informal type-club and helping us secure reserved parking. But several of us have traded up to King Airs or, in my case, a Duke - all of which were made after 1970. So we're stuck...

I've driven through Scholler once - driving someone back to their campsite. It's like a third-world shanty town. I'd never voluntarily stay over there; some people love it, though. But from my perspective, it's an unhospitable zoo.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I swear I saw something in the last couple years where EAA had a procedure for folks who want to camp together. But for the life of me, I can't find it. I've got about 6 planes of people who want to fly-in and camp together, but most of us don't qualify for vintage anymore...

Mark S. at PS Engineering is great. Call or email him and he'll talk you through everything you want to know. And I agree, don't skimp on the audio panel to save a couple hundred. Get the best one they sell, the price differential, in the grand scheme of things, is peanuts. I put a PMA6000BT...

I've got a similar setup in my (new to me) Duke - crappy old audio panel and a barely working Ky196 comm. I'm on my avionics shop's schedule and going to do a remote-mount Garmin audio panel, controlled by the 750, and a GTR225 comm for Comm 2 (my nav 2 is a working King KN53 I think). I'm a...

I assume you're referring to the "most officers aren't going to lie" portion. There is certainly a meaningful contingent of law enforcement that will 100% lie through their teeth at any opportunity. But I don't believe that most will do that. In any event, in the era of body cams and dash...

Apples to oranges. With a murder or other "physical" crime like that, there's usually other evidence that the crime occurred. A dead body, DNA evidence, a weapon of some sort, PLUS witnesses. With a traffic offense (which is what a DUI ultimately is), absent an actual accident that...

Rephrased for you: I'm certainly not one who supports the sovereign citizen thing but you may still want to question why the MEDICAL SYSTEM IS setup so you must hire a SURGEON at THOUSANDS of dollars an hour to have any chance of NOT KILLING YOURSELF PERFORMING YOUR OWN SURGERY. Anything...

I started to type up a substantive response to this, but I think a simple "LOL" will do here.

Which is why nobody in their right mind would submit to an FST or a roadside breathalyzer (though a lot of folks are utterly informed regarding their rights and obligations when interacting with policy). If the officer has probable cause, he/she will simply detain/arrest and take to the station...