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Thank goodness for college students. What a great idea for when your neighbor's drone is ****ing you off. http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/13/michigan-web-firing-drone/

We don't pay you enough. Thank you for all the volunteer work you do to keep PoA running.

I have the poor man's auto pilot, Trim.

Absolutely my favorite Super Bowl commercial of all time. This was published in 2000 and for years i used it in school administrator professional development because leading a school IS like herding cats. Thanks for bringing this up.

PoA has a new server?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/06/technology/ces-2016-ehang-drone/index.html

oh, i have too many thoughts, but i'm certain others will chime in. 1. It's your money and you have total control over how you spend it. 2. Being a Type A personality is actually a good thing because you may be more in tune with your learning style. It's your instructor's job to adjust to...

Well, THAT and the fact that some drones are operated by idiots while birds have larger brains than some drone owners.

From the promo video, i looks like these travel higher and faster than other drones, so i'm hoping they're too expensive for the masses. http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/05/parrot-unveils-new-disco-winged-drone-with-50mph-top-speed-ios-connectivity

+1 My first was from Concord to Salinas and Paso Robles. Gotta love flying down the valleys. Hard to get totally lost.

I'm with you. Better safe than sorry.

Went to one last fall in Concord. Loved it. Plan on attending the Sacramento event.

Found this today. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/jim-morin/article50308940.html

And Walmart has the iPad Mini 2 for $199. Now, it's only 16GB, but it makes a perfect back-up iPad. I'm only keeping aviation apps on it and i still have room to spare. It's a much better back-up than my iPhone.

Thanks. i think i will now.

No. they were quite apologetic and offered another plane. i took the events as an omen and will fly next week instead. the plane spent the afternoon in the shop.

Tried to practice some touch and goes yesterday, just to feel more comfortable after being away for awhile. I started the rental, my favorite C172P with 180HP, taxied down to the run-up area, and did my pre-flight list. The plane had just been through a 100 hr inspection and i was the first to...

well, they are collecting email addresses, so i presume they'll be spamming the slobs. Still, with hundreds of thousands of drones being bought this winter, i have a hard time believing they'll get many to sign up. I wonder if they would require companies to put a flyer inside the box about...

My butt hurts too much after sitting two hours, so i like to plan a gas/stretching/go pee stop.

I use a bi-fold kneeboard and mount my ipad on the yolk for longer flights, but place the ipad on my lap for shorter ones. Besides the pad of paper, which i write frequencies and TPAs for the airports i'll be visiting, i have a print out of both the 172's pre-flight/post-flight instructions as...