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Paul bought the taildragger?? If so, it likely could not have ended up in better hands. He did the pre-buy for my bird.

Buddy that took the leave from the regional stumbled into one flying a TBM for a small family company, at his home airport. Salary, home a least 5 nights a week, usually does out-n-backs in a day. Runs the show himself, and most importantly, MORE MONEY than a senior FO at the major regional. QOL...

Looks more like a classic base to final stall, IMO. Same thing happened to a Lear at Teterboro about four years ago. Unfortunately, the Lear can be very unforgiving in this situation, so much so that the FAA came out with a circular about tight base turns in the Lear.

Surprisingly good local TV Coverage, talking to a pilot that works for them. Small jet plane plunges into neighborhood near El Cajon during storm - (kusi.com) Video from a local RING camera. Certainly gives a clue as to what happened, I think. Plane crashes into neighborhood near San Diego...

He won’t say it, but you have a much better chance at being hired off the street right now, than from a regional with “flow”. Flow is the carrot they use to keep the regionals, especially the wholly owneds, staffed.

IAH to Victoria, had just leveled off at 4,800, filed for 6,000. According to a poster on Kathryn’s, that area is known for “Intensive” glider activity. From KL: N1116N never saw the paraglider. last three ADS-B returns. Time: :25:07 Pos.: 29.666,-95.925 Speed: 162 kt Altitude: 4800 ft Vert...

I spent days going around knocking on doors at the airports until I found a shared space.

Mine was years of hard work. Now the boat on the other hand, has come courtesy of a well-timed investment in DWAC.

Divorce???

GottaGetThereitis, I would expect… Kokomo-based airplane. Judging from the Flightaware speed track, and what look to be a few elevator rides, it is going to need a spar check. Lucky he didn’t rip the wings off of it. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N3008B

Stumbled across this TAF for Pueblo, Colorado for today at 1200MST: 15-Dec 12:00PM LIFR 280° 60 kt Scattered 10,000 VIS 0.5 miles. Winds gusting to 85 knots. Blowing dust. No current winds available, The Anemometer gave up a couple of hours ago, and has likely departed for points east.

Danville, KY Airport hit. Hangars down, several aircraft destroyed. https://twitter.com/kedwards_tv/status/1469670597718425608 Tornado went along, or over, Rough River Airport. From the videos, damage appears to be on the North side of the road...

Article from local media that interviewed the pilot. https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/air-tanker-crashes-kruger-rock-fire/73-77e124e6-804d-424f-8405-0634ec9f2b73

#BREAKING: The @LarimerSheriff confirms the the missing single engine air tanker fighting the #KrugerRockFire was found just before 10 PM tonight. They say the pilot and only occupant of the plane did not survive a crash. 11:34 PM · Nov 16, 2021·Twitter for iPhone Pilot was interviewed by...

8 planes at EKU hit by theft Monday night. The story says electronics were stolen, but doesn’t go in to detail. Keep your eye open for cheap Garmin panels on EBay, folks. Same thing happened to a Tune tornado plane that was moved to Gallatin last year, after being purchased from the Insurance...

Cruiser came out with an SB requiring CO2 Detectors recently.

This explains some of the recent guidance on CO2 detectors. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021_11_12_archive.html

The problem is all of the small islands in the shallow waters of the China Sea, we have no real way to access them if it came to blows. Many of these have small Chinese military installations on then, that can’t be approached easily due to narrow and shallow waters. Helicopters as we know are...

FL 24… Sounds like hypoxia?

If you like the P92, look in to the 2008. Slightly roomier, and a bit more capable.