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Maybe, maybe not. States' regulating of clubs varies widely as do the tax consequences by type of business.

Sorry, I did not mean to tie the two thoughts. They were separate items on the laundry list.

It would be very situation dependent, but if the state didn't consider the club to be a nonprofit, then its federal 501(c)7 or similar nonprofit status would probably also be revoked. So now the accounting must be to federal tax standards with proper capital equipment depreciation for example =...

In our state, that activity would not be within the scope of a legal flying club. Check your laws.

For years, I have been reading snippets of forum advice that "you don't have to contact ATC'" or even specific legalistic advice to avoid contacting ATC. That POV just amazes me. To me, ATC is a resource that, used properly, increases my safety. On a flight long ago, my wife observed: "You...

Well, you have to tell them where it is. :) " ... we'd like to come across the field down to the mall, make a U-turn and come back out the way we came in ..." has worked fine for me too. There is a route they can usually give you at 4500' that goes right across the field perpendicular to the...

I have had no problems making similar requests. Time your flight so it is not rush hour at the main airport, tell the controller in plain English (like 'my house'). At that point you may get vectors or simply "proceed as requested." If the controller can't comply due to traffic he/she will tell...

Actually, not magic. Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow" gave me a theory that makes sense to me both in the context of sports car racing and the context of flying. He describes two mental systems. System One is the fast one, often acting before we even realize what's...

I took a brief drive in a friend's new M3. I think I could get used to the goofiness of the accelerator pedal wanting to also be a brake pedal, but having to turn my head away from the road in order to read the central display panel is a complete disqualifier. Many cars have central displays...

True enough and maybe that is enough for the OP. But is is still true that the few years after approval is when the rubber really meets the road. The FDA vetting is necessarily minuscule vs the real world. For example...

OK, then, speaking as SGOTI: The article was interesting; The two you are asking about have received FDA approval only in the past few months. From a career in high tech, I have observed that it is the guys out front who have arrows in their chests. If I were talking about my eyes, I would...

You don't trust your doctor's recommendation ? You'd rather trust SGOTI?

"Stick and Rudder" and Robert Buck's "Weather Flying." For the latter, get the latest edition, updated by his son. For reading enjoyment, anything by Buck. "North Star Over My Shoulder" "The Art of Flying" "Flying Know-How" "The Pilot's Burden" are all on my shelf.

Ad hominem attacks indicate that the attacker has nothing of substance to contribute to the discussion. I'll ask again: If you're being so badly treated, why don’t you just go elsewhere? The strength of the company is that it is constantly experimenting. For surplus products, IIRC that...

I really don't understand all the angst and hate that seems to be accruing to Amazon lately. The big picture is a man with a vision and an understanding of the fact that if none of your ideas are failures you are not trying hard enough. This, together with a refusal to dance to the quarterly...

So you don't go back to that store. Problem solved.

I don't understand. Is someone forcing you to buy from them? If not, what are you crying about? They're a business, you're a customer. If that is not an acceptable situation, go elsewhere. Sheesh ...

" ... my rule was if I pushed through a column, I had to be near the tops. ..." IMO he will find out plenty enough about limits without deliberate testing. In airplanes exceeding a limit can get you killed. Better to learn about limits from others' experiences and, inevitably, testing some...

It sounds like you have been lucky and from that have concluded that you are a thunderstorm genius. Remember that the goal for inexperienced pilots is to fill the bag of good judgment before the bag of luck is empty.

There are lots of situations with gray areas, but that does not mean that there are not also black areas and white areas. It's a pretty common logical fallacy to argue that the existence of gray precludes the existence black and/or white.