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Makes the Camry's paltry 5 years of sitting time pathetic by comparison... I'm surprised that of all days to pick -- you'd choose to start a 20-year-idle truck when it's 15 F out :oops: . No way the truck enjoyed that!

This was a hilarious outcome, thought I'd post it. Since it's been a year I'll recap: I was offered an essentially brand new Camry that hasn't been turned on in 4 years. Parent got too old, lost their license and just left it as a paperweight in the garage. Then everyone here offered good...

Thing is... A "pair of headphones" makes sense. Each individual cup on the headphone is a singular headphone. There are 2 "pant" legs, so a "pair" of pants makes sense. But is a single arm on that considered a "plier" on its own? If not, how is it a pair of pliers? ... Friday morning musings...

The most hull value AVEMCO would give me at that hour range was $250k a couple years ago. Other insurers were fine going quite a bit higher, but the insurance premium was substantially more. I don't think insurance would care that much about an extended amount of dual time unless there's...

Gary has been my bad weather layup spot on my way back home to the west suburbs of Chicago. The BColeman FBO is nice. I gobble up the free popcorn, fast Wi-Fi, and the nice big roof I can park my plane under. And I think my landing fee is like $5.00? Not bad. Plus Gary controllers have always...

Going to fall well short of hours goal (225). Life gets in the way sometimes... But still managed to put up a respectable 158 hours YTD, compared to this time last year I was at 200.4 hours YTD. Trips: attended all the ones I planned to! (Rough River, 6Y9 and Gastons). Plus did my long XC to...

It'll be plugged in the whole time, right? It can generate its own heat to keep the circuits toasty and warm :D

Your situation is quite similar to mine when I bought. 1972 PA28R-200, ~3000 TTAF. Between 2003 and 2020 it only flew 250h (and during that time there were years it only went up for a few hours). Last OH was in 1993. Had 4 100h inspections, all back in the 70s. We pulled a cylinder during the...

When it comes to morality the only thing of which I'm positively certain is that delegating responsibility for your beliefs and your actions to any "higher authority" is among the most profoundly immoral things you can do. It is tantamount to turning off your God given rational perception and...

Ha! That sounds like what I experienced when stopping at Coolidge Airport (P08) 2 weeks ago. Just this huge cluster **** of flight school planes that migrate down from the phoenix bravo. On the radio it was clearly a lot of CFIs keying the mic either having circle-jerk bro talk with their...

Thank you all for your recommendations. I'll find out shortly if the trip is going to happen :)

Social/soft skills as a whole have been waning for the past 1-2 decades, and people's conflict resolution abilities along with it. I would expect any lack of civility observed at an airport is simply another example of that.

I mean... Anchorage *might* be an improvement over the 14F lows I've gotten 3 of the last 4 nights...

It sounds like to had a trip you will truly never forget.

That's awesome! Exactly what I'm hoping to do. Thank you!

Any outfits you would recommend for rental?

I have the opportunity to travel to Alaska on very short notice (before xmas). It's TBD if I pull the trigger, working on logistics. Any recommendations of places where I may be able to rent a plane in winter in Anchorage or Fairbanks (either flying with an instructor or doing a check out)? I'm...

Just got back from flying that area last week. Gone out there a few times. If you're on with flight following I don't think you'll have trouble traversing it. If they do deny entry, cant you just fly over the Luke special airspace to the north? That way you can keep your altitude up and avoid...

Our department head would take his family and inlaws to a big sporting event every year, usually picking whichever team in the area was doing the best. For whatever reason they had to cancel and he was left with a dozen tickets. Rather than selling them he decided to gift them to the employees...

Yeah, the thought process behind that ties into the initial wording of "about", "approximately" and "for a normal approach..."... Not every one will conform, which is why there may have been initial confusion. But I freely admit I chose the most extreme example I could find just for the sake of...