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My Piper Dakota stalls at 56kts. Missed it by 2kts.

ADHD could be an issue. When I was a kid, we called that “being a kid” but today they drug everyone up. Talk to an AME about this. There is a possibility you were misdiagnosed but you’ll have to prove it.

Send me your G5s and I will send you some old vacuum gyros. Haha.

On a recent flight to Europe, our FO announced that we were under the command of Captan Kirk something. :D

It’s been very calm here. I flew yesterday morning and there was no wind to speak of at 9am.

DA at KTVL was about 8400'. I would not take a 140 up there in those conditions. One person has pretty serious head injuries... probably no shoulder harnesses as they were not standard on the older 140/180s. My 1968 180 has them, but I am not sure if they are original.

Stick and Rudder

Anyone planning to ride with Jerry is basically a red-shirt.

Why bother looking at the AI when it’s much easier to simply ignore it?

That thing glides better than a Cherokee 6.

I would have thought Kai Tak (Hong Kong) or Narita (in the 1980s) would be the busiest single runway airport.

I have flown near it on an IFR flight plan when they allowed me through the restricted areas but I was still probably 20 miles from the runway there. Lots of other places to land.

I give my IR students a clearance to copy starting on about the 3rd or 4th flight. True, it’s not a “real” clearance, but we do fly it, and they get used to copying it down. By the time they get a real one, it is no big deal.

In the summer here, full power can be less than 75% at our density altitude.

They are recording registration numbers and types. Someone in Guatemala got a picture of my plane parked there.

Only if Donald Rumsfeld was working that shift.

The Lada Niva will survive anything. They were everywhere when I lived in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

Are you a US citizen? Do you have legal residence in the EU? When I lived in the Czech Republic (on a residence visa as I am American), I was unable to fly on a US license even in an N-registered plane. I was told this was because I was a legal resident of Europe. To get a Czech license I was...

Make sure you can get a medical certificate. You you have been on any ADHD medication, be careful. Hopefully at 15, you have had no encounters with the justice system either.

What product are you using for cloud tops?