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    Going to learn tail wheel

    I've got mixed feelings about this one. TW training CAN expose you to new techniques and require you develop new skills, but that depends on how you were originally taught, and if your experience is in the recreational/day-vfr/SEL/straight-and-level world. That said, you can pretty much count...
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    Do you still have a 5 1/4 floppy drive?

    Fun fact on floppy drives and modern aviation. Hopefully I've got the details right. The guy that invented the most commonly used drivers for the early 5 1/4" floppy drives back in the 70's was a guy named John Torode. This fellow went on to start several other companies, most of which were...
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    You guys- I've got a jet

    Haven't heard that in years. However, BFI still refers to the reservoir for arrivals/departures to the west -- the reservoir that was lidded about 20 years ago, and is now a park.
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    Do you still have a 5 1/4 floppy drive?

    A fun fact. So, the guy that developed the first (successfully) commercialized floppy hardware controller was a fellow named John Torode. We know him for a couple of different, later projects: He's the guy that started Dynon, and more recently Vashon Aircraft.
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    When do you change tires?

    IMHO: Why use brakes at speed? A few bits of information: For the airplanes that most of us fly, the takeoff roll significantly exceeds the landing ground roll, even without braking until slowed. For my Cessna 170, if I land it in a place where I HAVE to use the full short field...
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    Disastrous First (and Last) Annual - Advice Needed

    Just a side comment on Annual inspections and my view on how Bell206's comments are being interpreted. In addition to all the other lessons in this thread, a related (perhaps more minor) one is a reminder that an annual is an INSPECTION. My view of annuals changed dramatically when I started...
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    Insurance & Providing my Airplane as a CFI...Flight School? Flying Club?

    Ryan Short's summary matches my experience near perfectly. Have been providing instruction and rental in a Cessna 170 for over 10 years. It is NOT my main source of income. If so, I'd be a good bit skinnier than I am, and I'd be living under a bridge. Regarding insurance: It may be best...
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    Chuck Yeager Flies West.

    My family has a Chuck Yeager story that I heard in my younger years. My dad was a USAF fighter pilot for his entire career (F-100s, F-111s, F-4s, F-16s). One of his good friends, also a fighter pilot (at least F-104s, not sure what else) went to Oshkosh with us one year back in the '80s. Over...
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    C177 down Whidbey Island (W10)

    Turns out ceilings were pretty high that day - I was flying with a student about 10 miles south and east. I was surprised to hear that they were IMC when they got the engine failure (at 6-7000', IIRC?). It was VFR throughout the region. There was a weird layer of a few clouds/mist at about...
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    C177 down Whidbey Island (W10)

    When my students choose W10 as a landing site on simulated engine failures, they're almost always high. Shoot - it can be hard to see where the airport actually *IS* from many approach angles because of the trees. But that mental leap to decide on an off-airport landing when you've technically...
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    C177 down Whidbey Island (W10)

    Sad deal. Being that close to W10 would've been a mixed blessing. Yeah, it's an airport, but with a short(ish) runway at ~2500', and surrounded on 3 sides by 125-150' tall trees. You'd need to get a whole lot right to have it work out. (or, alternatively, less could go wrong.) There are...
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    Flying to Canada. ?

    Yeah, when you factor in the population and do the actual math, they’re only 3 times better than us on deaths, and only 6 times better on cases. Do they suck or what?
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    Talk to me about Seattle....

    Most of the major airports and sights to see have been covered well by others - and those would be the top billing for the area. I'll just add a few less well-known places to see (and to consider): Concrete: cool area, nice airport (even some on-airport homes), nifty museum. Bellingham: mid-size...
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    Talk to me about Seattle....

    I live in Seattle proper, and meh, not so bad other than traffic through downtown. How bad the traffic is depends entirely on where you're going and when. The AM and PM commutes from North Seattle to Boeing field actually haven't hardly changed in the last 30 years. But the commute at...
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    Did you catch it ?

    I'm really surprised (and disappointed) by how we as a nation are handling this. Testing and information/informed discussions about immunity seem lacking. Testing: As bad as I thought the data was a couple of weeks ago, it's worse now, if anything. Some folks think the coronavirus deaths and...
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    Did you catch it ?

    Huh. As an aside, I only skimmed the article, but saw no reference to the 70% in your quote for New York, just that 27% of the excess deaths in the state weren't attributed to Covid-19 - and with 37% of those excess deaths in NY City not attributed to COVID-19. Might be an inadvertent flip of...
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    Did you catch it ?

    You had donuts?
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    Did you catch it ?

    All I can say is it would be really tough being a governor right now - in any state. You'd be faced with the most significant decision of your life - with no good options and very little solid information to base it on. You could gripe about the lack of testing, but it is now what it is. So...
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    Did you catch it ?

    I don't post much, but figured I'd toss one into this thread. Peter, I hope you're right, and that "coercive" government measures make no difference. Because if you're wrong, about half the states in the US have just screwed themselves. And I fear they may have. I've got a semi-pertinent...
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    First time in IMC with Dynon HDX for Certified

    Dynon has sure come a long way with that product line. A buddy of mine and I co-owned an RV-4, and we put in one of the first D-10's. I think it was number 18 off the production line, but may have even been earlier (so this was a LONG time ago). It had a few glitches: In the pattern, if you...
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