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Business Admin? Is that the same as "BBA"? Nope. --BS Mechanical Engineering --MS Engineering Still respect the work done to get an MBA, but they're rather common these days . . .

Yep, the cables are for real use in real landings, while that stationary 9000' runway is simualting a 900' carrier deck moving 30 knots with a nice 25° right crosswind, while rocking side-to-side and riding the swells up and down . . . i.e., "simulated carrier" landings. Overshoot at Jax low on...

I do that every single working day and don't get paid for any of my preparation time or commuting time. If I did, I'd find a job further from home so my paycheck would go up (because I earn much more per hour than it costs to drive my old truck! :D ). But honestly, you earned 15 minutes' pay if...

One thrust reverser was INOP (left? I forget), so none available. Doubt the non-functional air cindutionung was involved, but they probably landed long over the Navy's carrier simulation cables and couldn't stop. Anti-skid won't help if you're hydroplaning across puddles. Plus fast from the...

Find a visible landmark (antenna? Tower?) that is 3-4 miles cr9 the field. If you can see it, you have visibility. Can't judge cloud height accurately from the ground, you'll need a report from somewhere--ATIS, ASOS, AWOS, pilot reports, etc.

If you can't drink more, at least use a mug. Good ones are nice and heavy . . . .

"Most people" don't have a boat . . . . When I bought my plane, my coworkers immediately looked up a new one and started talking about how nice it must be to have so-many-hundred-thousand dollars laying around. I agreed, said it must be nice, that's why my plane is a 1970 model. Shocked looks...

"Changing" altitude won't affect a sealed can. But opening one "at altitude" can be messy if you're not careful.

The A&P part is what's driving me away . . . Doing things without my approval, doing things i specifically said not to do, replacing parts that aren't bad, no communication while working, taking forever (my recent 70 day annual was only 63 days to logbook signoff, but it took him another week to...

Yep, general aviation is declining. I'm debating joining the decline, can't get decent A&P/IA work around here. But I can get fleeced . . . . There's still EAB, but I ain't building no airplane. Get a Repairman ticket, sure, but there's still the Condition Inspection requiring an A&P. And no, I...

It's not worth having if I can't read it clipped to my kneeboard, bouncing along in light chop with variable lighting. Hopefully the scribbling on the right, done in flight, is messy enough for your taste?

My CFII was a regional airline pilot transitioning through a mid-life career change, and took up instructing to help pay the bills. Had to get 5 hours in my Mooney before instructing. With 8000+ logged non-Mooney hours . . . .

But amazingly, whe they transition from vertical takeoff to horizontal flight, they get even noisier . . . .

I always make a cheatsheet like this, and write down all freq changes. It has sometimes come in handy on the way back when someone doesn't respond I can skip ahead to the next one. Thjs flight was almkst 400 nm. And I have a printout of the AOPA kneeboard format for eqch airpprt with all...

How is that any different from a single-engine airplane? I've heard them called a collection of potential single points of failure . . . .

Or loss of control followed by inflight breakup . . . . Sad either way

So, sac, do you not work for a living, or do you just not have a life? I'm honestly surprised that you ever have time to fly . . .

But I can't love those "different" people who push their agenda of forcing people around them to espouse the "different" outlook rather than their own. "I'll be me, you be you" doesn't float with some people, who think everyone should accept them as they are without them having to accept others...

Try reducing bread, rice and potatoes; eat less candy and dessert; increase veggies, and add at lweast one piece of fresh fruit every day. I lost 4 gallons' avgas from early August to Thanksgiving that way, and have kept it off. No other changes, so the exercise should accelerate the process.