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LOL. Where's my plane?!?

Either my math was bad or the date changed. I'm guessing my math was bad. I'm 3 days away from becoming a 172 owner, right?

2 days away. I look forward to bringing her home from Texas.

Just say his name 3 times. (as in Beetlejuice)

If you have a know-it-all persona on the internet you'll attract hecklers. (As opposed to real life conversation where people nod politely and plot their escape.) If you're an internet know-it-all who can't tolerate dissent from the "little people", your path to a temper tantrum is set...

I understand completely. I'm being a bit of devil's advocate in favor of the cruise ship. I thought before I went that I'd hate it. I kind of liked it. I have an Alberg 30 project boat sitting in my back yard. I hope to get that back in the water one of these days. Right after I finish...

People are sheep; they gather in herds. I found it very easy to find a quiet spot to read a book and watch the waves go by. Those boats are BIG.

:rofl: Yup.... I was going to say Henning's numbers need to double but then we're just arguing details.

I've been on exactly 1 cruise in my life so take this with a grain of salt. I think the buffets are low quality but the sit down dinners in the evening are good. Not GREAT but definitely good. Cruising on a cruise ship is a very passive experience. I've done a bunch of cruising on small...

bah.... they had some entertaining episodes but Clarkson is just too ???? for me. I already have netflix so I'm sure I'll tune in to the first few to see how it goes.

When these discussions come up I'm always amazed at the number of folks who say cost isn't a factor. I guess that points on the income bracket most pilots are in. Cost is the #1 factor that limits my hours/year since getting my license.

Making position announcements on the radio doesn't preclude looking out the window.

They're not dead yet! (perhaps pining for the fjords) https://www.duat.com/news_item.html?item=18

It's all in the delivery. :D

Congratulations! I'm far enough long in IFR training that I understand your story. :D

Would it be morbid to have an accident forum? It would be nice to see the follow up on a lot of these crashes. As it is, threads like this scroll off the front page and we never hear what went wrong.

You have a point. Only person I knew that owned an airplane was my uncle. He was a surgeon.

Hey, he had to leave the donut shop to come over to the aiport. He'll find a crime somewhere. Maybe a nav light is out. :D

My optometrist keeps bringing up the "clear lens replacement" option for me because I'm very nearsighted with astigmatism and NOW barely squeaking by the FAA's never vision test. I'll soon have to start toting around reading glasses. He keeps saying the surgeon would fix me up and I wouldn't...

Chilling. :hairraise: I'm approaching the halfway mark in instrument training. These pilots had so many tools at their disposal but the extra information didn't help.... All they needed was VOR/DME and an altimeter.