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I'm no doctor, and apologies for speaking out of turn. Good advice for all of us.

"Bill Clinton needed quadruple bypass surgery soon after leaving office, despite having had several normal stress tests as President." If you're in doubt, a coronary artery calcium scan is the gold standard. Non invasive and inexpensive relative to a cardiac catheterization. just sayin'.

Which is fine until you find out you have just enough fuel in the system to do the taxi, runup, and takeohhhhh!!!!!!!!! when you forget to swap in the proper fuel line....

Always loved that story.

I believe the idea was A) To attract people that want to begin flying hey, recreationally, and maybe take along a friend while working toward the PPL, or not, in a certified airplane. B) To lower that first rung of the ladder toward more advanced tickets or some point in between. The PPL may not...

Nah, makes the CFI gag.... now solo on a nice day, and I always drape a towel over the seat as a courtesy to next pilot, lol.

Some of us marry our teenage sweethearts, some don't. The difference with airplanes is, you can own and keep as many as you can afford! LOL

Let's just require every Piper single engine aircraft flying to have the inspection at the next required annual OR 100 hour inspection and thereafter at every annual for eternity. That would be safe.

Yeah, I guess I'm one of the few that can see the obvious benefits and the logic of a license to fly with an incremental path forward. It sounds like anybody interested in pursuing a rec ticket would quickly have that notion beaten out of them anyway, lol. I understand all the points favoring a...

There are decent 140's in the low 20's, just gotta be ready to pull the trigger, and be patient looking. You won't get much in the way of avionics maybe, but for those of us living outside major metro areas it may not be a big deal, and the ADS-B stuff seems to be coming down a bit anyway. For a...

High wings spread the shock loads through the braces from a wider leverage point, can't speak to the engineering math but it's something to keep in mind. With the low wing, one attaching point is all ya got. Another thought is the low wing Cherokee, et al., has the attaching points for the wings...

You may be right, and as you say it doesn't really matter. Final comment from me though is it's pretty hard to build a market for something nobody wants to sell, even if there is a demand. Hell where I live you have to be a tracker to catch the scent of CFI, I may end up driving two hours one...

This. Me? The only way I will ever own that 50 year old Aztec I dream about is if I win the lottery. If I win big there will be room in my hangar for the turboprop next to the Aztruck and the Cherokee, but as Davidl13 says, if you can afford something that burns Jet-A, hire a mentor pilot until...

Nope, just wishing in my left hand! I'm kinda self-enjoyed, so yeah, gotta love tax time.... NOT! :eek:

Okay thanks. Kind of what I guessed, but we dare not assume. And as per usual, why the hell can't they just SAY that?

No offense, but I think this attitude is largely responsible for the lack of Rec ticket holders. For a lot of us with different goals it makes a lot of sense, but there's a lot of resistance from the "We know better than you, gear up, flaps up, shut up and stall the ship". LOL Somebody want to...