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  1. NorthEast Ohio

    Answered my own question... unable to delete thread

    You are better off renting. /what was the question?
  2. NorthEast Ohio

    Starting a small cargo company

    AndyTowPilot I need a Twin in Northeast Ohio for timebulding. Message me. And maybe we can figure this twin thing out.
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    Ask me your hardest checkride questions

    Then it’s settled then - I will never fully and abruptly jam my stick forward into the instrument panel (at any weight), and I won’t have to worry about it.
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    Ask me your hardest checkride questions

    What are you guys even talking about??? I graduated from a prestigious four year degree puppy mill (not that one) ((not that one either)) And “Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators” was not on the reading list. Next time I’m at the airport I’m going to have to look for some Sport Pilot pay grades and...
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    Best Instrument Checkride Questions

    An Automatic Direction Finder; is neither automatic, nor a direction, nor a finder. Discuss.
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    Best Instrument Checkride Questions

    Traffic in front of you is cleared for the visual approach. ATC asks if you have the airport or the traffic in sight. You only see the traffic. ATC instructs you, “follow preceding traffic, cleared for the visual approach.” The traffic in front of you then announces, “lost sight of the runway...
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    Best Instrument Checkride Questions

    Filed: AALLE 3 arrival PORDR transition. Because fuel is so expensive today, you are flying at economy cruise = 250 knots. (Note: the arrival expects you at 280 knots.) Upon check in with Denver Center they give you a shortcut, “Cleared direct AALLE, descend via the arrival, comply with all...
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    Ask me your hardest checkride questions

    What checkride is this from? Seems to me a little above a general aviation pilot’s pay grade.
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    Trivia

    The C from National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was replaced with an S in 1958 on the hangar at Northeast Ohio’s Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center).
  10. NorthEast Ohio

    What are you flying?

    What I am flying: Pipistrel, the Rotax powered “Prius of the skies”. What I want to fly: a Rotax powered twin.
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    How do we (you) afford to fly?

    In one word: Rotax (3 gallons per hour of cheap unleaded)
  12. NorthEast Ohio

    Favorite conspiracy theories

    The communists won the cold war. And I only exist as a brain in a vat (matrix-style) in a Soviet laboratory.
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    Ask me your hardest checkride questions

    It is daytime, you are departing PCA in a STOL aircraft, 50% of the airfield is 0-0 in fog, the other 50% blue sky. You call the tower and ask for special VFR. Can the tower authorize special VFR? Can they deny special VFR? Do you need to request it at all?
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    Ask me your hardest checkride questions

    It is daytime, you are departing ACK in a STOL aircraft, 50% of the airfield is 0-0 in fog, the other 50% blue sky. You call the tower and ask for special VFR. Can the tower authorize special VFR? Can they deny special VFR? Do you need to request it at all?
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    Career Change to Aviation (CFI)

    Step one: get in shape. The journey you are about to embark on is not made for 56-year-old bodies. Do some weight training to help cope with the stress of primary students trying to kill you all day. Add-in cardio to counteract effects of being crammed motionless in a training aircraft. Step...
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    <NA> Motorcycle photo thread

    I threw my hog on the back of the wife’s minivan to take it to the Cleveland Metroparks for a fall foliage ride.
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    The two facts, one lie game

    “assignation?!?” Is that when you slap a ‘kick me’ sign on someone’s back?
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