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Just get the basic requirements down and pass your test. It is going to be a long time before you consider yourself proficient at landing. IMHO landing gets much easier once you get to the point you can use the rudder without thinking about it. Tim

I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if anyone has mentioned this: our airport, Watsonville, CA, actually has a special rate for derelict aircraft: $1000/year. Predictably, then, there are a few utterly dead airplanes sitting around here. I can't imagine what the airplane owners...

I have seen people follow malfunctioning cars as they pull off the freeway. I call these people bumper zombies. They stare at the bumper of the car in front of them and follow it wherever it goes. Tim

Since he was sentenced to over 12 months in prison, I assume he was convicted of a felony. If so, that means he also loses his firearms rights forever. Maybe important to the guy, maybe not. Tim

In my neighborhood there's a move to get unleaded aviation fuel installed at Watsonville: https://www.watsonvillepilots.org/post/petition-for-ul94-unleaded-aviation-fuel-at-kwvi Tim

What a bizarre comment. Tim

I found a crazy Google maps bug once when I was driving to the Air Force museum in Dayton. I could see by looking at the map that the system knew where the museum was, and I had explicitly told the app to take me there, but the verbal instructions kept trying to take me to the main gate of...

I have often wondered why, if they get released all the time, I have never seen one while flying. I presume (wild-assed guess) that the balloons are still on their way up when they are in the bug-smasher altitude range, and so spend relatively little time there. I HAVE seen toy mylar balloons...

Evidently it's so efficient that retracting the landing gear in cruise flight is optional. Tim

I think the bigger issue is blackouts from blood loss after applying the Cat Muffs to Fluffy. Tim

Careful--someone might bring up cricket. I mean really...a lunch break scheduled in the middle of the game? Tim

On my first solo cross-country in a 172 I found BOTH doors had popped open (or maybe I just forgot to close them--I don't remember). Anyway, that's when I found out you can steer a 172 with the doors. Tim

There's some kind of glop that mechanics spray wherever they go that is said to stop corrosion. Maybe that's it. Tim

I stopped when I got to "lettuce wrap". Edit: I forced myself to get past "pee pees and doo doos". Tim

I suppose YMMV. Mine (as I learned too late) was well north of 400 bucks. Tim

Sometimes they were not even outlandish enough. I get a kick out of the old Star Trek TV episodes where the "23rd-century technology" has already been obsoleted by 20th-century technology. Tim

I have the same sort of deal, except my stick isn't marked with gallons. A couple notches at 5 gallon intervals, full tank notch in the middle, then mirror image notches for the rest of the stick's length, making it exactly twice as long as it needs to be. That way I don't have to worry about...

We have some friends who are high level professors and researchers in marine biology at UC Santa Cruz (CA). They are constantly applying for grants, and when they get one, the university forces them to share a percentage with the departments that peddle the worthless degrees. Otherwise those...

If you have Kaiser insurance, they won't sign off on a basicmed physical. Too many lawyers, I guess. Tim

What charity? Tim