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    Flying thru fronts

    During my training there was a Cessna twin pilot at the airport leaving to take off. Believe he was a contract pilot. I still remember seeing him in his boots and jeans in the FBO. He flew through a front line that he could have flown around the tail end that was between Houston and Dallas...
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    Brand New PPL. How to challenge myself but stay safe.

    STart with easy flights like the ones you did in training. Then gradually expand your distances and lengths of time away from home base.
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    You fly? Why? You’re gonna crash and die!

    You ride a bicycle. You are going to die at the same rate that GA pilots die
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    178 Seconds to live VFR into IFR

    or you could teach better weather prognosticating skills so people don't get into that situation in the first place.
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    Anxiety On Cross Country Stops

    You are launching into the air in a 40-50 year old metal thing with 1940-1950s technology..... I will just stop there.
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    Flight Bag Recommendations?

    No matter how uncool my nephew says cargo shorts are, they are my flight bag.
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    Degreaser (caution, WAY in the #e!! OT)

    Goop hand cleaner should work and is cheap. Home Depot carries it. It will also clean the belly of your plane including cleaning the brake fluid which is really hard to get off.
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    United Airlines FA has a federal air marshal arrested and handcuffed

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    NA - Retirement recon? NA

    I am a couple months into wildland fire training and working on my Pack Test. Pack test is a good metric for staying fit. While those are not needed for this job, it would help. I am sure the PPL will also help. https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/503409300
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    Finally flying my own plane!

    Everyone that I talk to is amazed that we don't have to check with someone or ask permission to launch on our next adventure.
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    You too, could go Down in Flames.

    Besides Boeing issues with boring batteries there was also an issue with bike light batteries having issues. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2011/lithium-ion-batteries-used-with-bicycle-lights-recalled-by-geomangear-due-to-fire I think HP had some issues with laptop batteries going south.
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    Chinook Rescue

    Because the cool looking ones lose lift and can't pull it off
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    Pilots are more important than regular people.

    Auto news bot writing with people being lazy on oversight. There are more PHDs in the world than pilots. Darn tooting we are special.
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    Stratux, phantom traffic

    If you have adsb out you can tell stratux to ignore your plane. If you don't have ADSB out, then this is a radar return from a ground station that is being combined with other ADSB contacts and then transmitted to the STratux box.
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    Would you fly over a bridge with towers 440 feet tall under a 1200 foot bravo shelf?

    Sully did it....... Once.....
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    Smallest GA plane with lavatory

    A funnel and some tubing and you are good to go.... so to speak. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/pspages/pilotreliefventuri.php
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    Hangar Burglary

    I believe these guys were flying into airports around houston and stealing stuff. https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/local/jefferson-county-sheriffs-investgators-conroe-police-bust-houston-man-in-12m-airport-burglaries/502-423409504
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    Anti-venom flight during 9/11 shutdown

    wouldn't have been faster to give the anti venom to the fighter jet pilots and let them deliver it. Just saying.
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    I need tie downs for OSH

    a length of coil proof chain. 1/2" spikes. good rope. done....
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    Hypoxia Training

    Did the Houston one recently. Most of the young guys needed the mask before the 5-6 minute limit was achieved
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