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Today was the highest gusty crosswinds I have taken off into or landed, so far, in the Sportcruiser. It handled it surprisingly well.

Wouldn’t you know it, the very Paradise I thought about buying got crunched this week in Florida. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/10/paradise-p1-lsa-n912zz-incident.html

Call John Rathmell in Lancaster, Pa and fly a Bristell, see what you think of it. They always seem to have a couple of older ones around as well, trades for newer ones.

When I stayed at the dorms a few years ago, it was really the first time in all of these years that I actually spent any time in the town of Oshkosh, over 40 years, other than occasional food run to places like The Roxy. Was very pleasantly surprised. Now I make it a point to get off the field...

Good luck, and have fun doing it. What I ended up with was more than my original paltry budget, but it worked out. Once I narrowed down to the Cruiser or Paradise. I could focus on finding the best one that I could afford. I lucked out finding a well equipped one with immaculate paperwork from...

Money being no object, I would have gone with a Symphony (They are rare) or a Bristell. The shorter Bristell wing makes it less prone to the LSA issue of thermal turbulence (These are very light airplanes, after all), but does make it slightly more susceptible to stall spins. Especially when...

Pipistrels, Harmonies, etc are all nice planes, but not really widely available in the US.

There are schools that teach in LSA’s all over the country, but maybe not in your back yard. Any CFI can teach LSA, but you need an LSA to solo and do the check ride in. My Cruiser handles very differently than a 172 or 150, and requires a much lighter touch. Dragging it around like a 150 will...

Depends on what you are looking for, mission wise. I break it down into two categories, some can fit in both. As far as “Play in the grass” airplanes go, there are plenty of them, and they tend to be inexpensive. My mission was a “Travelling” Light Sport, something that could easily do two-hour...

Decent used pickups are flying off the lots at well over the original selling price. I have seen used 3/4 tons priced in the $99,000 - $120,000 with almost 200,000 miles a couple of months ago.

Dear god… I wasted an entire minute of my life watching that.

He has had some decent advise from time to time, but he seems to be kinda full of himself. He went off the deep end on the Smyrna crash, trashing the victims instead of just focusing on what went wrong.

UPS is notorious for not paying claims. There was a class action suit about it some years ago.

An MD-87 that light would fricken soar off of that runway… 21 vs 139+5 is a huge difference, even if an exec config would be slightly heavier with the hot tub full. Someone on another board noted that it was likely fueled for a round trip, given that fuel cost in Boston is almost twice of what...

Karen’s just gotta Karen…

Oof…. Please never let this be me. My flying mantra is “Don’t become a headline.”

Comment from Kathryn's list: AnonymousMonday, October 11, 2021 at 5:05:00 PM EDT Two homes involved in fire. Elderly couple minor injuries, taken to UC San Diego Medical Center. Possibly aided by a good Samaritan, as the airplane (attempting to land?) hit a car, a boat and a "UPS' truck...

N7022G, a Cessna 310. Was out of Yuma heading for MGY, the tape sounds like he got lost and confused in the cloud. Weather was around 2700 broken at the time, gusting to 17. Audio, it starts around the 9 minute mark...

Videos from the immediate aftermath. https://twitter.com/ModernTimesLB/status/1447667375373893638 https://twitter.com/10News/status/1447672780099506177 Does not look good, into two houses and a UPS truck. Fire Chief reporting "multiple Casualties" at least two confirmed. Early reports say it...