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Given the growth of costs, I would venture to say most people are underinsured to some degree. Just think about the average cost of a car today and compare it to your automobile policy limits. And then consider the number of vehicles out there on the road that are well north of a $100K. If...

There were 2 flight schools in my area. A co-worker had used one of the flight schools and said their planes were dogs and poorly maintained resulting in a number of cancelled lesson and other problems. Since he was a nuclear engineer (and me a mere attorney) I figured he knew what he was...

I do practice maneuvers from time to time. Steep turns, power on/off stalls (for some reason power-on stalls still scare me - weird), slow flight, etc. I think it’s good to feel the plane in different attitudes and configurations from time to time since most of my time is cross county flights. I...

Ouch - not gonna buff out anytime soon.

Not really. Sometimes I would gain a lot of satisfaction after say 3 pretty good landings in a row. Unfortunately sometimes those were followed by 3 that weren’t so good. I liked my solo cross-country flights because you could begin to see the possible. Sometimes it was interesting like when I...

Vote for lawn mower/tractor or 4 Wheeler. You can use it for something more than just pulling out or pushing in your plane.

I will be blunt. Worst idea ever. If your boy friend can’t qualify on his own for his loan, then he needs to fix that before he starts flight training. And if his credit score is that low to begin with, good luck getting a job post graduation at companies that use credit scores as back of the...

70+ mph. Still without power for 2 days. At least 1 person died from being struck by a tree and we have several hundred trees down. State Highway 97 is still closed. Some places remind me of North Carolina after a hurricane - just huge swaths of trees down!

Very cool and glad to see you sold your home and hangar. Congratulations and well done!

I have an ADF in my 91 Tiger and it still works. I would like to get rid of it to recover the useful load, but the cost of removing it along with the antenna is more than I want to pay. Maybe I will have the head removed and leave the antenna in so I don’t have to repair the holes in the honeycomb.

Welcome aboard. Always want to fly into Kamloops for skiing but my Tiger really isn’t an ideal winter airplane. Maybe this summer if the Canada ever let US citizens back in.

My AI has a Grumman A1C Lynx with an 0-320. He can cruise around 130-135 Kts and it has side by side seating with decent baggage room and at least 22 gallons of fuel. Not sure about the fuel range but I tend to think anything over 2-2.5 hours exceeds my bladder range anyway.

My wife and I supported an MAF missionary for something like 15 years. He got his A&P at a local community college. His parents owned a plane and so he was able to get his ratings (Private, Instrument and Commercial) that way and got his tail wheel from some friend, all out of a small...

Here in Idaho, we have mask rules but they are largely ignored. I guess that’s why the Southern Idaho hospitals have invoked their crisis management protocols and are now rationing health care like some parts of SoCal. My mother in law lives just over the state line in the Spokane Valley in an...

I agree 2020 wasn’t all bad. My wife and I welcomed 4 new foster grandchildren bringing our total of grandchildren to 9. My son and his wife are teachers in Kotzebue, Alaska and are now fostering 4 native children. They joined us for Christmas along with the other 5 grandchildren and their...

One and 1/2. First one got only 1/2 way through when the IA called and said I was wasting my time and money. Second one was completed and I bought that plane. Overall, I made 3 offers on 3 different planes. The third one I got beat out by $500. We had reached an agreement on price and we’re...

I simply don’t add it up. While I have a budget for my plane, I don’t much care whether I am under or over running the budget. I do look at my costs at the mid point of every year but I rarely make any kind of adjustment. I’ve lived way too many years squeezing the buffaloes on nickels to make...

I am a third generation pilot and the second in my family with a PPL. I had to wait until my 50’s to afford lessons and then subsequently a plane purchase although I started flying in my teens and in my 30’s. Usually story, no money and no time. My wife and I use the plane for travel and...

Do they see a shift in the way student pilots learn today (particularly those 25 and below) compared to say boomers, and if so, what adjustments are they making in their materials, teaching approach or style, to address these differences? I know I learned very differently from how my children...

Maybe I am cynical or perhaps simply worn down by the low standards of today. I’ve represented witnesses at 3 congressional hearings and have been a witness at another. Truth is not what congressional committees are about; rather it become some macabre game of point scoring by the majority and...