Search results

Don't get me started on that. As a prescribing MD in a pain heavy practice (orthopedic surgery) I've argued against the careless prescribing of narcotics for mild to moderate pain, and you are correct about the downstream issues because they rarely affect the prescriber.

It costs a lot of money to let a plane sit for a long period of time, plus it's an inconvenience to fix the problems that occur with it. Enjoy the time.

With a lot luck of his doctor doesn’t know either.

I always logged "IFR" time as under the hood or actual IMC then noted the actual IMC time in the comment section. My logbooks (all seven of them) are mostly for me but can be used to verify times required by someone else, like insurance carriers or even the FAA.

She got her certificate quickly after we returned from Alaska in 1998 but never really wanted to pilot the C206, although that’s an option if she’s interested. She’s 19 years younger than I am and could extend our usage but we have other things to do as well.

Got head start on the boat, a 30 foot motorhome, and a bigger tractor . . .

I am planning to stick around, here and elsewhere. Social media can be informative and constructive at the same time, even though it can go haywire every now and then. In the middle of the night a few days ago I conjured up a plan. I have to return to Pittsburgh a few weeks after my brain...

That becomes almost obvious when you look at the crash photos and read "survived" in the text. ;)

We all face it sometime, but my own time has come to be permanently self-grounded. With no warning, I had three small focal-aware seizures involving just my right elbow about three weeks ago (and none since). An extemely extensive work up in both Vermont at at UPMC in Pittsburgh ultimately...

It's crazy, but I'll be selling my C206 soon, so peronally I'm not complaining . . .

Might it be with the speeds associated with the altitudes? Oxygen comes into play well below the floor of class A, but I can see that it might be an ATC "convenience" to exclude relative slowpokes from the high speed traffic - just in the interest of overall efficiency if nothing else.

. . . at least something about reversers . . . :)

I think the data so far at least supports that position. I wonder how that may change as pilots on Basic Med get further and further away from their initial certification as they age and become more likely to have more medical conditions that would disqualify them from certification using the...

Why wouldn't you?

As with any risk management, all of the variables need to be included in the decision making. Pilot xperience is a big one of those variables, but so is the aircraft, wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and many other factors. In 50 years of flying I've never relied on a "numerical" answer...

The "ambulance mod" is what gave me the idea of an emergency bunk in the PA-12 on floats, mentioned above. (PA-12 was originally designated J-5). Bears are scary if you're stuck all alone in the wildnerness.

You also have a slight degree of protection from bears, or at least we liked to believe so. When you read about bear attacks on campers in their tents it's frightening - not that bears can't rip through aluminum fairly quickly but it might have given us time to grab the shotgun . . .

Here's my inbox a few days ago from a completely clueless bonehead scammer or someone that has some kind of hidden trap that I can't figure out. o_O

I'm comfortable sharing that but I will need to dig those up, and I think it can shoot a coupled LPV approach but not sure I ever even tested that. Send me a PM if you have heard from me in a few days.

My wife and I have done it fairly extensively in the C206. With the front seats forward we put luggage on the seats and have lots of room to sleep comfortably in the cabin. On our first Vermont to Alaska trip we spent almost every night of the five weeks sleeping in the plane after realizing...