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Looks like Nevada Highway Patrol is closing their air unit.... Just planes could be a change out, but headsets, tugs, etc? Makes me wonder if they're getting out of the air business.

I can probably get her to Fantasy of Flight -OR- Pensacola Air Museum, probably not both. She likes planes and loves going to OSH, but she's never really had the chance to see and chill in FL. This trips is about beaches, waves, and a side trip to Orlando. As an aside, we looked at...

I love Whitted. Not convenient to northern Tampa though. I learned to fly at Vandenburg (before they added the second runway, and it was still X16). I really wanted to go there (you know, nostalgia), but the fees and fuel prices were crazy!

Great, thanks! I spent the first 30 years of my life in FL, seen more alligators than blades of grass. But it'll be a cool thing for her.

Hi all, Wife and I are flying to TPF (Peter O Knight, Tampa), visiting family for Thanksgiving. I would appreciate any suggestions, I haven't been back and outside of Tampa in 15 years. Schedule looks like: Start Nov 23rd: Fly down Sat and Sun, RON in Meridian MS Sat night. Mon...

Again, is the FAA's role to be my primary care physician? Or to screen for conditions that have a demonstrated likelihood of resulting in incapacitation?

Sorry Henning. AOPA is saying that the FAA is not my Primary Care Physician and has no business requiring pilots to get screened for a condition without evidence of its existence in that individual, and without evidence that the condition is an actual hazard to safety of flight. When did it...

Anthony here had a Tiger in Colorado, where density altitude at the runup pad is regularly over 9000ft DA.

I missed the online re-reg deadline (my own stupid on that one). I filled out the form they sent and returned it. They sent me a letter saying I sent the wrong form, said to use the enclosed form. The enclosed form was the same one I sent. Went to the website, got the RIGHT form (not...

My BMI is 39%. Here's what the BMI chart says I look like: Here's what I actually look like. One of these is not like the other. So Doc, am I overweight? Yes. Am I SEVERELY overweight? Right now I weigh 260#. Can I stand to lose 30#? Yes. Can I EVER get to the 155 pounds the BMI chart says...

Do you not recognize that BMI tables are based on body types within x number of standard deviations from the mean, and that there is a population which lies outside the range defined by the table? Again, address the young man with a 54 inch chest and 30 inch waist, who (according to the...

"At least for 1st and 2nd class" means your preference would be that it applies to 3rd class as well. For private, non-commercial ops, why is that your business?

I read your attachment, Doc. It says up to 30% of the population with BMI under 30 have OSA. So, we have OSA at epidemic proportions within the population with average body types. Where is the evidence that this is causing serious problems? Again, I understand the correlation with BMI...

Largely, yes. But partially, the concept of driving testing based on "rooting out" undiagnosed conditions. Where do you stop? I understand that >40 BMI and >17 in neck has a very tight correlation. But that's only a temporary waypoint. They have already decided they will ratchet the...

Did you read the first sentence?

That's why I said my place was different. Other posters said their airports updated the ATIS to say the tower was closed. Mine there IS no ATIS when the tower is closed. The point was that there is no single rule.

I don't have a problem with that. It's the racheting down to people with normative body types on the belief that they have to "find" every case of SA. Once you leave the range with tight epidemiology, it's nothing more that a witch hunt with no corroborating evidence. Why not just...

Whatever. That was a gratuitous insult, and extremely uncalled for. You don't know me, or anything about me. But based on that post I now know a great deal about you.

So, they are using their Federal regulatory powers to "root out" every person who has SA by forcing everyone who MAY to be screened. This is a very troubling precedent, forcing people to be screened for conditions they have not been diagnosed with, so they find every single person with SA...

Yeah, OK. Must be nice to have a "typical" body type. When I was in the Academy, running 5 miles a day and 4% body fat, I had 54 inch chest, a 30 inch waist, a 22 inch neck. I was 5'8", weighed 210, and was "obese" according to the CDC. My "target weight" is 155lbs. I couldn't get there...