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The first one was good. The rest were just creature-features, which I'm never interested in.

The short version: Trained at Tracy CA (KTCY) 42 hours over 4.5 months to solo (Sept 2013 to Feb 2014) 211 hours to checkride over 12.5 months (Oct 2014) Long version: My Discovery flight was on Sept 24 2013. My medical got deferred (Past Kidney stone and deficit in left eye) just as the...

Spam doesn't really bother me much. I too used to get a ton, now its down to a few a day. I don't do anything other than tell Outlook to add to blocked senders list. (Which doesn't always work.) But like I said, It doesn't bother me. In the grand scheme of things, it's no worse than the crap-ton...

Yeah, that's a great solution. Thanks for your contribution. Seriously, the US has the best healthcare in the world, as long as you're in the 10% that can afford to pay for it, or the 40% that qualify for subsidy. We recently dumped our insurance and put the money into a separate checking...

I was 6' and 300# when I started training. Wasn't pleasant in any of the training planes, but it worked. (Luckily, my instructor was a string bean.) It did inspire me to lose 50# though. Go for it.

I've been flying AA from DFW to either SMF or SFO a few times a year since we moved to TX. (Gotta go check on mom.) I haven't really had any complaints, other than the "all over the board" pricing schemes. I never by through a third party like Orbitz, Travelocity, etc. I learned a long time ago...

Thirty years ago, I made the mistake of going swimming with my Casio G-Shock on my wrist. Got full of water and died. My buddy said "I can fix it, and stuck it in the microwave at the 7-Eleven (along with my burrito). It came out dry, and alive, and ran for another 10 yrs without changing the...

Caps are on fire, and Vegas is getting spooked by it and losing their mojo. Momentum is everything in this game. Personally, I'd like to see Vegas win the next two, and force the series to 7 games. I'm having a blast watching it on the biggest screen in our home, which I can't do when the wife...

Blackshawks fan here, so I'd be okay seeing go either way. I'd prefer it to go to the Caps, just because I think OVs earned it. (And I went to a game in DC with my daughter, who is a Caps fan.) Yeah, the opening ceremony was a joke. It felt like a trip to Medieval Times but without food. And it...

Totally agree with the above two posters. I'm not crazy about dumping my insurance coverage, but it has gone up 40% every year for the past 3 years. We have had to reduce our coverage level each year just to keep the coverage affordable. I'm self-employed, so it's even more difficult to get...

I agree he needs to rule out CAD, without a doubt. But the only way I'd ever go to an ER is if I'm so bad off I have no choice. (Basically, unconscious.) I have had a lot of bad experiences with doctors, which have cost me years of pain and suffering, and thousands of dollars. Health care (and...

There are a lot of crappy AMEs out there. Finding a good one is probably more important than finding a good flight instructor. My first one screwed me royally, causing me a 5 month delay. The one I have now is so good, I'm flying halfway across the country just to go to him for my renewal in Sept.

Lemme guess. You put an extra zero someplace?

My wife gets the same symptoms when she gets stressed out. (It's why she doesn't drive on the highway.) She has had this since we have been married, when she was in her mid twenties. (She calls it husband pain.) She has had countless cardiac work-ups over the last twenty years, and no one has...

I (conditionally) disagree with this statement. Not everyone who is careful and professional about the buying and selling of aircraft is a person you don't want to deal with. I greatly appreciated the purchase agreement that the buyer of my plane offered, as well as his use of an aircraft escrow...

I never factored engine rebuild or repairs into my hourly cost of operation. When I bought my plane, it had about 1300 on the engine. My plan was to run it out getting my PPL, IR, and plenty of experience, then sell it as a run out. (Which I just did, a tad over 500 hrs and 4 years later.) Even...

Started with a paper logbook, but switched to digital just after I finished my PPL. However, I have found that the digital isn't great for endorsements and such, therefore, I've been maintaining my paper logbook. Every few months or so, I update the paper to match the digital. If I go in for a...

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Not yet, but I am showing it to the rep of a very interested party tomorrow morning.

Yeah, I tried everything and cannot get pics posted.