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I started watching Palmer's youtube channel way back when he first started, maybe 4 or 5 years ago now. He was a complete newbie pilot, quite naive and I thought this guy is gonna kill himself but he was good at videography and created an interesting show with imminent drama. At one point he...

"Zero adult camping experience" My advice is buy a cheap tent and try it out. There's a good chance you might just want to toss it in a dumpster rather than pack it up and bring it back home again.

Wow this is still going on? If he had just taken the six month suspension it would all be a distant memory now but apparently he's been lying awake nights gnawing his teeth for the past two and a half years over what everyone else sees as a silly "oops, probably shouldn't have done that - lesson...

The whole ZDDP thing borders on a conspiracy theory. Sure you'll get testimonies from people who put it in their engines and had "good results" but then there are thousands of people who didn't put it in with equally good results. It all started about 20 years ago in muscle car forums but the...

When I got my authorization, which was long ago when you just walked into the FSDO, no appointment, no bulletproof glass, you just walked in and saw an agent. The guy I got didn't want to sign me off for the powerplant so okay, I'll take what I can get. Afterwards we were standing outside by the...

It doesn't matter what the FAA puts into writing somebody is going to start the "sounds like" "seems like" "looks like" analysis and generally overthink the whole thing. How about just take "guidance" for what it is? No need to villainize the FAA over interpretations.

If you have checked everything and failed to find a problem then you need to start all over because you missed something. I know that doesn't help but it's impossible to answer your question from our perspective, other than to just guess. As noted the rigging procedure is a linear step by step...

From casual observation and without doing any actual calculations I figured that the Earth's rotation gives you some advantage but it gets less as you increase in latitude so, as noted, it wouldn't be a constant speed.

Here is an interesting math problem that I'll let someone else figure out: How fast would your airplane have to be to follow the eclipse path and remain in totality from Texas to Maine?

You've seen "several totals"...Where? Including Alaska there have only been three over the USA in my lifetime and I'm 70.

It's quite an obvious event, it doesn't occur until complete totality and lasts throughout the duration which can be 2 or 3 minutes depending on your location. You'll understand once you've seen it.

You don't need glasses to look at the totality but you do need them if it's 99.999%

Imagine if your job was to wake up in the morning and write enough stories about the days events to fill a newspaper or broadcast. You're gonna have to throw some filler in there to get the bulk you need. Call it embellishment or just exaggeration for effect if your stories are as dull as a...

The tripod vertical stand bolts to the crankshaft flange so every component can be removed including splitting the case right down to the bare crank. If you hang it on an automotive stand I suppose you could get the cylinders and oil pan off, maybe the accessory case but then you'd be stuck.

In regards to "alternating LH/RH traffic patterns" perhaps what he was meaning to say was that maybe they should consider changing the established pattern from left to right or vise versa in order to avoid residencies? Granted, if that was his intent, "alternating" is a bad choice of words but...

Not always, if you want to fly during the golden hours of dusk you don't have to wait until nine o'clock in the evening to do it and as you get older, if you didn't take a nap or two during the day, by nine o'clock you might be ready to hit the sack ;)

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As I said, there is no standard for a pre-buy inspection. It can be excruciatingly thorough or pitifully lapse, that's up to you and whatever you think affects the value. It's your money and your decision.

An annual inspection is not the same as a pre-buy inspection. It's not going to tell you how worn the carpets are or how dirty the headliner is. However there is no standard for a pre-buy inspection and honestly it should include everything an annual inspection is because what good are plush...

I retired three years ago. My advice is don't make any big plans, just ease into. It's a big lifestyle change and you may find that your desires and routines don't necessarily end up being what you thought they would. Give yourself a year or so to figure it out and unwind from an entire lifetime...