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Why plant city?

Any recommendations on where to base an airplane between Orlando and Tampa? Obviously there's Lakeland, but it gets shut down annually and has high traffic otherwise. Winter Haven seems to be an option. I don't know much about Bartow. Am I missing anything?

Dad's side was better by far. He lived life My mother's father was a drunk. His wife was much better off when he passed.

Golf or bird strike?

On submarines there are classic stories of Admiral Rickover testing security of "his" submarines by pulling different stunts. I was told one where the topside watch raised the intruder alarm, pulled his sidearm and racked the slide when Rickover tried to walk past him without properly...

Or at least let them say there is no plausible deniability

No, it’s cabbage.

Have you heard of Cole's Law?

Happy Halloween everyone

Ehhhh…won’t they interpret this as reapplying for a medical? Its happened in the past when a well meaning doctor sent something in.

This one looks pretty good

The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go.

Hmmm, investigating more, I see that foreflight has an activate button too, although that will require connectivity on the ground. I can tether through my phone, so that should work.

I file from FF because it's easy, but I don't usually open them because it involves finding a frequency that works, maybe tuning for duplex. If it could be opened with ATC or if calling Radio was always as simple as calling ATC, I suspect many more would do it.

Tailwheel taught me more about landing than 300 hours of other flying put together. I've always slogged my way through crosswinds landings, usually landing in a crab, then timing straightening out to try to minimize side loading and drift. After just 4 hours of tailwheel, I was coming in with...

Sure, I was here three times in 1944, but I never landed.

The 90% give the 10% a bad reputation