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    Thinking about giving up on aviation

    I’m in Naples, Fl, hangars fairly easy to come by, especially when the damn people from Michigan go home in summer.
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    Even More on Airline Safety

    Cape Air. A guy I worked with, his wife was on a cape air flight sitting right seat, Cessna 414, when pilot went into diabetic shock. She bellied in the airplane. The pilot somehow hid his diabetes. They gave her a trophy made from one of the bent blades. I think she worked security for cape air...
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    Even More on Airline Safety

    Air Tran changed their name from ValueJet. Marketing decision. They put a deep hole in the Everglades. This list is BS.
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    What's the Problem??

    Ah yes, the bonanza drivers that think they own the sky. I chased one around the airport once after he cut me off on final.
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    Cessna 182G rigging

    Maybe a bent airframe and a attempt to get it to fly straight, maybe whoever owns it just doesn’t care.
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    Raptor Deposit?

    I worked at eclipse jet, they had plenty of deposits also. They were much better funded too.
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    Raptor Deposit?

    Good luck but I wonder if that deposit you’ll never see again is tax deductible as lost money. There’s been more than one of these too good to be true airplanes.
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    Passengers Report Stolen SeaTac Plane, Grounded Flights

    There has been more than one instance of suicidal pilots that took a load of passengers with them. Why is everybody so concerned with security with this one incident. I’m more worried about the guy up front deciding he’s had enough when I’m sitting in back, not some guy killing only himself. I...
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    Passengers Report Stolen SeaTac Plane, Grounded Flights

    Every mechanic has a key also. How do you think we work on them?
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    At SWA even the rampers like to drive fast!

    Besides the aircraft steering bypass, not a pin, a lever that is pinned, there is a shear pin in the towbars. I know, I have seen it in action.
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    VFR on top

    Appears to be the same as yours. You are not a troll. Can you figure out what that means?
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    Thinking about giving up on aviation

    Want to sell your Questair?
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    Smoking rivets - Cessna strut

    In over 40 years at major airlines, military contracts and general aviation I have never seen a jo bolt tool. Why buy it when a hi lok can be used and requires no special tooling. Typically fasteners such as jo bolts and huck bolts are used in production where it speeds up production. I had a...
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    Marvel Mystery Oil

    Mystery oil, cam guard, wd-40, stp. There’s a sucker born every minute.
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    Best time for a Touch n Go at ATL?

    You could probably do 4 or five t&gs, how long is the runway, 10,000 ft?
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    Smoking rivets - Cessna strut

    In my career in aviation starting in 1978 working the major airlines and military contracts as well as general aviation I have never had the occasion to use a jo bolt. Do they require a special tool?
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    No Flying Today - Airport Closed

    Am Amazing how when someone screws up it’s always a aircraft malfunction.
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    Chinese Cargo Plane Nearly Lands in The Grass at KORD

    What type of aircraft, looks to be four engines.
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    Do we need another military branch?

    Are bone spurs a deferment in zero g?
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    100LL

    More than 28,000 posts, it seems like his full time job.
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