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Carbon credits is the most likely path. It is the least expensive, markets for credits already exist, will make people feel good about themselves for flying “green” United, and will certainly be a great PR achievement. People will pay almost anything to get that feel-good emotion of helping the...

He can be a hoot at times! His dry, sarcastic wit can be used to drive home important points.

I don’t think airspace was as complicated “back in the day” as it is today which virtually mandates the use of some type of GPS in some areas of the country. Out here in the PNW, I still use a sectional map on occasion just to keep up on the piloting skills although I no longer use an E-6 but...

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Just went over to the dark side and bought a Traeger. Before that I had a Cabelas Pellet grill which was “ok”. The Cabelas replaced a Weber Genesis that I had for 20 years. Pellet grilling and propane are two different animals although depending on your meat choices, you might end up in the same...

Each county has multiple taxing districts that separately establish budgets annually and then apply a millage rate applicable to your property. For example, there are 13 taxing districts that are applicable to my property on Coeur d’Alene Lake. They range from Kootenai County and the Coeur d’...

Boise is growing very rapidly and as a consequence, there are pressures on the housing market, job market, and the cost of living is climbing. Boise is expanding at an incredible rate and it nearly extends nearly as far east as Mountain Home and north up the Treasure Valley. It’s the home of...

I have used Pledge for both inside and out for quite a while on the windscreen. Lately, I have been using Plane Perfect’s Eyes Out with a micro cloth. Way cheaper than Plexus (which I use for my motorcycle) and seems to work pretty well. A single bottle get me through a season. I also wash my...

North Las Vegas (KVGT) is an option. Several threads on this topic of where to fly into and around Las Vegas. Several posters appear to fly into KLAS frequently on IFR flight plans and others were able to fly into KLAS recently VFR because of the COVID reduction in traffic. Me, no way would I...

You can also look at AOPA’s Rusty Pilot program. A friend of mine with thousand of hours flying for the FBI did it about 6 months ago after probably a 15 year layoff and said it was a very structured way to get comfortable with new (to him) terminology and gasp, a GPS. Once he completed the...

There is one advantage to owning your own airplane that nobody talks about. And that is, it my be the tipping factor to force you to complete your training. Lots of us, particularly us, ahem, older pilots encountered training blues where we aren’t making progress (or so we think), and we get...

I was doing my Flight Review on Friday and I showed the CFI something similar to what @luvflyin posted on my IPad. I use Garmin Pilot and the CFI used Foreflight. The same Class G airspace did not display on his IPad with Foreflight. Is this just a Garmin Pilot thing or was the “kid”/CFI...

Now I know why my oldest son refers to himself as a “bone mechanic”. There’s some heavy metal there and lots of screws. I’ve had a fair amount of metal myself from a motorcycle but the Army made me remove most of it. Hope all heals quickly and you can move forward with a plane purchase.

Yep - got a thick wad of them in my airplane - Garmin 530W, S-Tec 50, GPSS, etc. Amazing how much stuff you need to have on-board beyond the ARROW requirements.

There is no confusion. These passengers simply think the mask rule, complying with crew directions, not getting drunk and becoming loud, obnoxious and aggressive with crew and passengers, and a heck of a lot of other rules, just don’t apply to them. For whatever reason, they see themselves as...

Unless you are going to use your name or something close, you will want to check with the Secretary of State’s corporations office to make sure the name you want to use is not being used by someone else. Check all of the filings available to you (corporations, LLC, etc.) including the dba list...

My questions are if I have that much money to buy say a GIV, could I still wear epaulets while riding in the back, and if so, how many bars and stars could I have? Oh, and yah will the FBOs’ always roll out the red carpet for me and have a receiving line of no less than 10 people to greet me as...

We definitely pay way less. I guess it’s largely because we don’t have HBO, Showtime, or the other “premium” subscriptions. For most of the year, I think our total is something like $20-25 a month. Now if I allocated the Prime membership, it would be closer to $35 a month. My last DirectTV bill...

We’ve had both shots of Moderna. First shot nothing more than sore arm. Second shot, different story. I felt really fatigued on day 2 with bouts of nausea. Wife had chills and aches - similar to flu. For both of us, the side effects lasted only 1 day. My wife loaded up on Emergency and took...

I have a Concorde battery and use the maintainer recommended by Concorde. Neither the battery or the battery maintainer are cheap. I keep it plugged in when not flying.