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Happy Fourth, all!

I'd rather stick to Amateur Built just so that the FAA couldn't decide that the restrictions on Exhibitions don't fit their whims anymore...

I’m aware of the different experimental categories. I was getting ready to give you a toldyaso and pulled up the aviationdb page I had on it. I’d accidentally jumped over to the next reg number which was indeed an amateur built. After moving the page back to the 149 it is indeed exhibition...

Car guys (of which I am one) have a pastime called bench racing, where we just discuss options for building and modifying cars. I will *hopefully* be finishing my grad program before too long and I'd like to buy after I find a job. With that in mind I keep tabs on Trade a Plane and on...

I am anti-electric when it comes to enjoyment vehicles. If you want to electrify bulk people movers like minivans or things like trucks, go ahead. But don't try to tell me that an electric sports car or motorcycle is more satisfying to operate than a vehicle where you are wringing a high...

I've found I like the sound of any engine that has lots of pistons moving very fast.

I used to never want to use Flight Following when I first started doing my solo work during my PPL. I dunno why, but I thought that ATC was looking for reasons to violate me. After a while I started using it a lot, then basically for all VFR work. I even took a date for a sightseeing flight...

Can we imagine if HD made airplanes? Loud STC exhausts. Ape hanger control yokes. Metal flake paint jobs. IO-720 engines and 95 kt cruise speeds. Meanwhile I'm over there handpropping my Triumph airplane, even though it has an electrical system and I confirmed that the **** battery is...

I really hate it when gov't writes laws that read "if we wanna get you we will get you," which is exactly what this is. If we are talking accumulation of flight time and goodwill as benefits, and the pilot doesn't have to be the one receiving them, let's look at the following scenarios. A...

@N1120A your cat does sleep on the flights okay? Mine is okay on car rides. Actually he is great. He has had a couple of rough vet experiences so he fights a little bit going into his carrier but once he is in there he does okay. I usually put a blanket or a towel from his bed or my bed in...

I get what you're saying, but it also depends on the level that the student is at. If this is a freshman level aviation business class or something of the sort and the class assignment doesn't necessarily involve some sort of specified sample collection, then it may very well be that this...

I think that the filing in VFR is a great idea after I do my IPC work, actually. After my training I was quite comfortable flying the airplane by reference to instruments, and when I took a VFR flight again after doing a bunch of instrument work it was almost disconcerting to me to be looking...

What the title says. I know that they make Mutt Muffs. Let's assume that there was a pilot who liked cats and had a cat. And for some reason unfathomable to anyone but him, he had a desire to take said cat flying (and not the kicking it off the bed kind of flying). Does anybody know of an...

That is another big part of it. I'm very comfortable on radios and pretty comfortable talking to ATC. I was comfortable with the airplane that I had reserved, but the airport I would have been flying to was near an airport for a fairly busy regional university. I didn't want to get down to my...

It was borderline ice conditions and it would have been my first actual IFR flight that wasn't a training flight, and I would have been solo. I just didn't feel comfortable doing everything by myself and not screwing it up haha.

One of the last things I did before the pandemic hit and I took a hiatus from flying was get my IFR. My checkride was ugly, but I think I passed on the pity principle because I had dealt with some problems prior to the ride - funny story if anybody wants to hear it. Anyway I did a couple of...

Sorry to disappoint, Mike! Hopefully you'll be able to get it soon! I feel really lucky. This is one of the colleges that I teach at and it is smaller but they use a lot of adjuncts to supplement their FT faculty and they take pretty good care of us.

I still think it’d be an awesome project! I sat down with the EAB percentage worksheet and looked over how it could be done. It’s a matter of time and space haha. Plus I kind of started to think I might like something a little quicker for travel.

No sir I rent. I want to buy after I graduate. I am leaning towards an RV4 or RV6.

I've had 1 so far. One of the schools I teach at wants its adjunct faculty to get vaccinated and got us appointments, which I am really thankful for.