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You must not have been listening in the right places. It is far beyond just counting days. State revenue departments chasing escapees are doing things like checking where your dentist is located, where the vet for your dog is located, and other fairly subtle indicators. This is in addition to...

Check: Hangar Lease Local or state Fire Marshall Insurance Company Local or State EPA tank regulations, particularly any secondary containment and testing regs for small tanks.

Hard to say. We were cleared and my guess is that we were invisible under the King Air's nose. If the KA driver had been paying more attention visually he certainly could have seen us, but he obviously hadn't. I have assumed that he got the usual "Maintain x,000 until established, cleared for...

Speaking of making phone calls, @ Trogdor, don't be shy about calling the tower, TRACON, or Center, when you have a question. I do it maybe once a year these days but did it more often in the past. Typically you will get the shift supervisor. Ask about rules, why you were told to do something...

When the lockdown ends, definitely visit. I have done it several times. During one TRACON visit I was invited to come back and shadow a controller for most of a shift. Being "plugged in" and seeing how traffic gets worked is a huge learning opportunity. I also have a couple of hours plugged...

"Time to spare, go by air." Assuming your meeting is not at the destination airport, add time to call and take a cab from and to the airport, or to rent and drive a car. Time to drive to and from the home airport. Time to fuel. Expect that a large fraction of your desired trips will be...

Good point. At one point Garmin was offering "lifetime" data subscriptions for its consumer GPS products. "Lifetime of what?" Well, it turned out that "lifetime" referred to the lifetime of the product as determined by Garmin.

From a legal standpoint, the sale cannot wipe out lifetime subscriptions. Someone has to have that liability and the resources necessary to deliver on the promise. To do otherwise IIRC is called a fraudulent conveyance. Almost certainly the buyer either bought the corporation intact, so the...

That was my dream. An amphib to hangar in the city and park in front of our lake house. But eventually I figured out that float planes are so slow that they are not useful for the kind of cross country that I wanted to do. End of dream.

Yup. 3-carb Austin Healy 3000. Still have my Unisyn. Had some 120 series Volvos that had SUs too.

The app looks fairly slick, but one of the problems in VHF and UHF radio is signals getting reflected off objects, especially metal. With all those metal panels I see in the pix, I would worry about that. I suggest that you figure out the directions to the stations you want, draw them on a...

Yeah. I know that one too. Say it aloud these days and a crowd of the politically correct police will tear down your statue and throw it in the harbor.

Oh, well then obviously your friend's opinion must prevail.

Slipped bowline

This is wisdom. I had a young and aspiring pilot friend whose dream was the airlines and who hated the idea of going to even a community college. My convincer was this: "You are one failed medical away from being a former pilot. Do you know what you will be when you go to an employer looking...

A lot of it may be over your head, but reading it will make you taller.

Yes! Isn't it great? Definitely required reading.

Yes. People have a very unhealthy respect for numbers printed on paper. The first thing I do when the F&I guy slides the sheet over to me is to cross out the doc fee and change the total to reflect the cross-out. The absolutely predictable then happens -- every single time: "What are you...

Yup. I never pay those. The F&I guys look like they've been hit with a 2x4 when I tell them. It apparently never happens. One fun one: F&I: "You'd lose this deal for $200?" Me: "That's your decision." He caved, knocked $200 of the price of the truck so his bosses wouldn't know that he...