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Useless critters? Hardly. Leeches, more like. If your account rules say you can run the money yourself do it. Listen to @geezer. Read: "If You Can" by William Bernstein https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf (free 16 page download) "The Coffee House Investor" by Bill Schultheis...

National drove me out of CAP a few years ago with a ridiculous airplane launch checklist. I had been working mostly as Air Ops Branch Director and pretty good at it. Several positive ratings from AF evals. The panjandrums at National, covering their A$$es came up with this incredible list of...

I would guess that his insurance requires him report any incidents beyond a certain severity level because they might result in the airport and the insurance company being drawn into a dispute.

Well, $110M would train 11,000 new pilots at $10,000 each. AOPA could train a few hundred congresscritters and big chunk of FAA's 48,000 employees as well.

He should get a market rate appropriate to running a second- or third tier nonprofit association. $1.5M looks quite high, especially in comparison to other AOPA salaries that are reported. Actually that's a fraught question. Generally a large amount of cash attracts malfeasance of one sort or...

Con? Well, they don't need your money. Baker pays himself $1.5M/year. The investment cash hoard, built from unnecessarily high member dues, is now over $100M. They could shut the place down and live off the hoard for the rest of their lives. Said another way, they could make a cash payment...

WADR, as a budding pilot you should be learning navigational skills, not how to follow magenta lines. Turn off that GPS and try some dead reckoning and some pilotage. The windows are not just to let light into the airplane.

... and if the stock goes down, you lose money. Both of these things are true regardless of whether a split is involved or not. Seriously, splits are an anachronism from the days of "round lot" (100 shares) trading. When a stock price was high, round lots became expensive and market demand...

All you need to know about timing the market: Taylor Larimore's market timing quotes https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Taylor_Larimore%27s_market_timing_quotes

I just bought a refurb Pixel 4xl on Amazon for $220. It was like new except aftermarket charger. If I paid a tad extra I'm OK with that because I expect that they will stand behind the product. So far no need to test that.

A couple more thoughts but outside Europe: First, we went on a river cruise in Vietnam (https://www.pandaw.com/halong-bay-cruises). IIRC there were less than 20 people total on the boat, so we got to know each other fairly quickly and it was like traveling with friends. Pandaw offers a wide...

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I have flown those CAP missions and even when you know what's coming, it's pretty exciting. Almost certainly the F-16 driver had information from a radar track but no physical description of the target. Possibly you were close enough to the target information that you were mistaken for the CAP...

Seems unlikely in that context, but they certainly can and will never tell you if they do.

Fascinating. Have you discussed this with the Lycoming engineers? And, what is your technical background compared to the background of the Lycoming engineers?

https://www.lycoming.com/content/leaning-lycoming-engines https://www.lycoming.com/sites/default/files/Fuel%20Mixture%20Leaning%20Procedures.pdf https://www.lycoming.com/sites/default/files/SSP-475.pdf

Thanks for the explanation. Buried in there was the comment that Amex is pricier than consumer Visa/MC, though, but that is not the point. The real point here is that many merchants, especially overseas, won't take the card. Maybe they are acting on old information or old experience, but it...

We have found that carrying a couple of debit cards (different banks) is adequate. In the last 10 years or so, cash machines have become very common and reliable even in 3rd world countries like Ethiopia and Myanmar. We do carry a handful of small bills to use for baggage handling tips, etc...

This! I would never consider them. Why buy a hassle?

Vinyl burns pretty well. I'd ask at your local FSDO.