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I almost always back in for that reason, as backing out of a space is quite a setup; idiots try to shoot the gap and if you hit them, you are at fault. Backing in does slow things down in a crowded lot but it’s worth it.

My Dad served 30 years and was basically the Ben Affleck of the military: started out on PB4Y Privateers, then was a corpsman with 3Rd div marines in Nam 65-67, then became a master at arms and served on destroyers, cruisers, mine sweeps, auxiliaries, landing ship docks (LSDs), ending up as the...

It is hyperbole. I have a Belgian friend, while we met over dinner in Las Vegas he related an experience he had at the airport taxi stand. It had a Disney-style roped waiting line with nobody in it, when he bypassed all that nonsense he was yelled at by the taxi stand guy to follow the line. His...

There are something like 20,000 airports in the U.S. some of the comments here sound a lot like people in the foothills discussing a tsunami. “It hasn’t reached me yet…”

I like the chart you posted but the problem is I have a hard time comparing "1 in a XYZ" chance. There is another way to quantify risk--micromorts--here is a wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort#Further_reading Basically it is a 1 in a million chance of dying, depending on where you...

Thank you! I don’t know everything, that’s why I am asking. I will def ask him if I should register it.

Sorry, I trust my agent. Don’t disagree those are actual citations but they defy reason.Are there any actual creators on this forum with actual agents who advised them to register their work? If not…

Thanks, I will. But I assume my agent has my back? After all any revenue I lose, he loses 15% ? It may have been true in the pre-digital era. Now, you cannot open, modify, or create a digital document without creating an impermeable timestamp. It would be trivial to establish provenance. We...

I just wrote a book and got an agent. He has not sold it to a publisher yet. Before I signed the contract with the agent, I sent the manuscript to several publishers that accept them “over the transom “. The manuscript has a copyright label. This discussion notwithstanding, I certainly believe I...

I fly all around the country with just a iPhone, SD to FL to Maine to CA. Use Flightplan Go (free) for navigation and it connects to the Flightbox which brings in weather and traffic. Plenty of screen space and it’s always charged from the 12vdc receptacle in the plane.

My understanding of copyright is that it protects the creator of the original work, not the subject of the work. So some of the posters here that happened to be in a picture would not be covered by copyright law (but maybe something else.)

This is just an anecdote, consider it with all the other inputs: Ran into a SW airlines pilot the other day at KBUY, he is 2 years away from retiring. His take was that the window is fast closing, that people hiring on now might be consigned to FO status for a large part of their career, that...

Update. You have to pay for the entire plane; the per-seat cost assumes it is full. There is an opportunity here for an after-market broker to find people to fill the extra seats if you don’t have enough pax to fill it yourself. The site is really easy to use and like fruit and fish, the price...

I haven’t seen Stafford (KRMN) on this list, if you are based around DCA it is a staight shot down I95 to it. Depending on traffic it might be less time to get there than anywhere heading west. There are various types of designated lanes that you can pay for or bring riders with you to clear...

As I understand it the issue at hand in the current case is not an agency’s broad power to set regulations; it is whether a plaintiff can get a trial by jury rather than acceding to the “kangaroo court” aspects of an ALJ. Reading the transcript of the case today, the 6 conservative justices seem...

https://rollcall.com/2023/11/29/supreme-court-casts-doubt-on-agency-enforcement-actions-without-juries/ I seem to remember the FAA uses ALJ’s when you get sideways with them; if the SCOTUS rules for the plaintiff here this could upend things.

Just want to thank everyone who has responded, lots of great info and some crazy ideas! Thank you very much.

Yeah exactly. I got the idea idea for it one time when I set down in Lajitas, Texas. There was a truck camp on the S side of the Rio Grande, every morning about a hundred of them would wade across it, do day labor, then wade back in the evening. I waded across and partied with them, they were...

Thank very much everyone excellent resources. It is a novel, not a documentary, I realize it would not be economically feasible, it is more a story of someone getting a new view on life. Again thanks all for the tips!

Hi, I am researching for a novel where the protagonist becomes embroiled in a scheme to fly undocumented immigrants—he calls them illegals to start out with—from airstrips along the Rio Grande to ones farther north, over the CBP checkpoints set up on roads in the SW. would there be anything...