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Good luck with whatever you decide. I am likely in the last few years of a 40 year engineering career - more than 1/2 of it at Fortune 500 companies. I found mega companies to be stifling. Most of them are not a place for original thought and innovative thinking. Others may have a different...

I use the folding bike - especially when I go to a nearby island with limited vehicle traffic. I am not one to mix it up with cars when there aren’t separate bike lanes. I also use use this bike to ride on local bike trails. It is heavy but it works for me...

I was listening to a podcast talking about the “loss of use” insurance cost that was accumulating daily. I don’t know if these are the same companies that insure GA, but they are going to recover their costs somehow.

I think I am registered but could not log in. I opted to have my password emailed but never got an email.

I think you might be talking about Michael Brown. He is friends with Austin Meyer - the Programmer / Engineer that developed X-Plane. His youtube channel is here. https://www.youtube.com/user/col2mab/videos There are a lot of good hardware reviews on there. The link to the hardware that he...

that is a classic. It is every conference call I am on. I cringe when I think of all the hours I won’t get back. I keep hoping companies will realize how much money they loose on unnecessary meetings.

I just watched it. Very well done as usual Martin.

I thought you had to be 20/20 minus -0. I do have the ophthalmologist fill out the 8500-7. Last medical the AME still had me take the vision test with the microscope style machine and I don’t do well with that. He eventually issued the class 2 based on the form. By the way- I wore glasses most...

Thanks Mark. You have a way of parsing these rulings that helps to understand them. That works for the OP since the company owns the plane. I could use GA regularly in my job (if my employer didn’t prohibit it). I regularly travel to one of our factories about 250 miles away, sometimes alone...

I’m in a similar situation. I can see 20:20 out of one eye uncorrected and the other I struggle to get 20:20 My ophthalmologist insists I don’t need glasses. I need to find an ophthalmologist that is a pilot or understands this and willing really help tune a prescription so I can keep a class 2.

Yes. Early 1980s writing code for CNC machines. We had a tape punch connected ti a flexo-writer. Eventually we bought some software to punch tapes from an IBM XT and used Edlin to write the files. “ the good old days”

I haven’t flown since December either. I was supposed to go up late afternoon and get some multi engine work in but canceled. It was howling. Glad you got it back in one piece. Ohio winter weather doesn’t have many flying days.

I am also one that ditched the CH yoke after 15+ years for the Alpha. I like it much better. As the others noted - the pitch axis is a little stiff. I would like to see a mechanical pitch adjustment that adjusts the spring pressure so you could trim off the pressure while holding the pitch in...

I really like ours. I keep the traffic on the left side and weather on the right side. It is nice having it on a separate display. Ours was no problem to install. Writing the check for the install was pretty painful!

79 hours After 15 years of procrastinating since the last rating, I added the commercial SEL this fall. I got a few hours of multi engine time over the holidays and hope to add the commercial multi in early 2020.

Damage is probably one reason. We used to take our wheel pants off our 172 in the winter. The mains can be removed with pretty quick without removing the wheels. The nose wheel has to be removed to get the wheel pant off and is a bit more involved. I would guess more than a few people just...

I would also suggest you think about putting a lot of money in an old GPS. We had a 20 year old 430 non WAAS. We looked at the cost of the WAAS upgrade last year and opted to go with a new Avidyne 440. After a year with the new GPS I am glad we did not put money in old unit. The Avidynes...

Like the others mentioned it is best if you hold off on doing approaches on your own until you start working with a CFII. Probably the best prep work you can do while flying now is work on precisely holding your heading and altitude. Learn to trim for hands off flying. It will really help when...

I wondered where that was filmed. I knew for sure it wasn’t the storyline airport- Port Clinton KPCW.

I went ahead and ordered the honeycomb yoke and ordered the Saitek single throttle quadrant for $59. I’m too impatient to wait for honeycombs throttle quadrant. Thanks for the PIREP.