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Required to have a beacon on board, then blasphemed for using it.

I think being in water with wings submerged is the safest place a pilot could be in a Cirrus.

I stopped too, next week will be two years. I've stopped from from time to time over the years when it seemed like a good idea (usually for weight and conditioning) and don't say that I've quit, only that I've quit for now. When I don't drink she doesn't drink as much either, and our wine...

On the way back from OSH another piston twin flew about 60 additional miles and stayed in the clear. As you noted, it negated the need for any fancy footwork or scud-running.

Do they provide a list of error messages so they can get a head start on the necessary training required to use them?

You old guys have your old-fogey ways, now doncha? You using rotary dial or Princess for those calls? :P I call them most of the time too, mostly as a hole-card for TFR's. What else am I going to do while driving to the airport?

In HS you quickly learned never to ride shotgun in a car with a chain dragging the ground.

We have an inherited Long at the farm in OK, but I could have swapped it in the package of stuff I sold when we sold the KS ranch and kept my MF-135. Have often wished I had done it, but have now delegated all tractor work to the help, so they drive the Long and I drive the Yukon.

Most products meeting that description are just mutual funds packaged in variable annuity wrapper, and originally designed primarily for the insurance industry. Some VA's are now sold as stand-alones, but most are dissed by the advisors.

I had a JD 317 with a 60" deck that could be quick-changed to a 48" blower in 15 minutes. The blower would throw our normal 4" snowfall and 3' drift about 40' and quickly demonstrated why anybody who ever used a blower will never again use a blade. Only 300' of driveway for me, but another...

Yeah, that explains your answer. *snort*

As usual.

Most agents now have various annuities and other products to plug into the "invest the difference" gap, so they're not out in the cold if the buyer decides to buy term coverage.

Whole life policies are two products in one wrapper. The insurance portion is declining term in which the payout drops each year as life expectancy decreases. The annual cash value increase (paid for by the excess premiums over the cost of the term insurance) is sufficient to maintain the...

When you have more experience with troubleshooting electrical systems and understand the complexities of alternator-related failures, please check back.

At your simplistic level that might be true. If the problem is sufficiently difficult that real aircraft mechanics are required to work on it, a number of problems could be present and require extensive testing and troubleshooting. What are the reasons that an otherwise good alternator might...

The clothing industry has not produced a sufficient quantity of striped shirts and plaid pants for that to happen.

Three 2'+ blades, no idea how fast they were turning, never seemed to matter. They were the best at the time and very popular but may have been surpassed.

I'd put my Lilliston 7-6 against whatever else shows up for pasture and acreage.

You really think a few knots or a few pounds means jack squat in real life?