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I've never understood the whole concept of "personal minimums" for IFR. If you're not comfortable with published minimums, you need more training. That being said, I don't necessarily launch if I know my destination is going to be at minimums, but that has nothing to do with whether or not I...

November 4th and 5th. BTW: I don't have anytime restrictions. I can take all the time I need. Although I would prefer to get back as soon as possible, so my wife isn't staying in the new place by herself for too long. (Get's spooked easily.)

So, we're gearing up for our move to Fairview the end of October. Four days after spending our first night in the new home, I'm flying back to CA to bring the plane over. (It's a 98 Archer III, and I'm PPL/IR with about 600 hrs PIC and maybe 10 hrs IMC and IR current.) Longest flight for me was...

I was born and raised in CA. It doesn't bother me one single bit if someone rips on CA. I am not CA, I am simply a person born and raised there who until now never had both the desire and the opportunity to get out. I didn't get to chose where I was born. To many, I suspect CA is the best place...

I am worried a bit, however, that you Texans are gonna laugh at my Honda Ridgeline.

First, I will NOT bring CA with me. I'm trying to escape the entire attitude of CA, not just their high prices and gross taxation. After only a week in Texas, I am embarrassed to admit that I spent so much of my adult life in CA. I love the state's geography and weather, but honestly, CA could...

After a week-long recon of the general McKinney, Plano, Allen, Frisco, and surrounding areas, we have signed a lease for a transition home in Fairview. Ten minutes from shopping, golf, ice hockey, and the airport. I won't be able to get a hangar at KTKI, so I'll be on a tie-down for now. (I'll...

Rolled my own by buying a couple different kits and combining them, then adding items that I felt I might need. I was a paramedic on a 911 rig for 12 yrs, so I know how to use the items I put in it.

1.5 hours, mostly morning fog layers, but it was quite helpful.

Seriously, arguing over a frickin' mechanical calculator? The E6B was invented long before digital calculators, and even longer before smart-phone apps that perform the same function and more. The fact of the matter is that if you can't do the same calculations that either does with a piece of...

If I were young and going that track, I'd stay 61. I loath sitting in classroom listening to someone lecture. It's the worst way for me to learn anything. But that's just me.

I had gout for years, and only got off the Allopurinol less than a year ago. Lost a bunch of weight, started playing golf 3 times per week, and just started watching what I eat. I didn't have to give anything up, (I stopped drinking 20 yrs ago.) I just started being more careful about what I...

It shouldn't be about the tech, because the tech is different from aircraft to aircraft, and even from pilot to pilot. It's about the principles, the science, the physics. We should be taught the math involved, the formulas, etc... My whiz wheel was tossed in the trash after I got my IR. I use...

Once per month, I go up and fly every maneuver from the PPL ACS. I also practice the critical emergency procedures, specifically the ones where you wouldn't have time to grab a checklist. And I do a simulated engine out landing whenever I fly into uncontrolled fields, and there is no one in the...

We're about 95% sure we're moving to McKinney TX in January 2018. All that's left is to go there and make sure that the humidity isn't too much for my wife to handle. We'll be there for a week in September, and if my wife doesn't pass out going from air-conditioned building to air-conditioned...

As for things like Seaplane, Multi, Glider, Tail wheel, I'll wait until I feel I'm going to use them. In my book, the instrument rating is a must. I was once of the mindset that I would not fly in weather. That didn't last more than a year. Eventually, I started venturing further, and pushing...

First, the fears of AI robots becoming our overlords are the stuff of Sci Fi horror movies, nothing more. Second, the advantage to an AI making life and death decisions is that there is no emotion involved. It's all numbers. The classic "save the one child vs a trainload of productive adults"...

I've used both my skyox system (with and without the pendant) and a regular medical O2 tank (same size, different regulator, for single feed only). Same altitude, some PaO2 results, same 2lpm setting on either system, and the same amount of pressure drop from a tank pressurized to the same level...

In N McKinney, there are 1 acre lots within gated communities going for $80k. Beats the $300k I'd pay here in central CA.

Just use a standard cannula. They're smaller diameter tubing and that stupid pendant doesn't save you any O2. You only need about 2-4 lpm anyway, and at that setting a fully charged tank should last longer than you have fuel on board. (At least, mine does.) I also find that the standard cannulas...