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Thread derailment warning… I was rewatching Dr Strangelove last week. I had forgotten James Earl Jones was in it. It gets better every time I see it.

I found Garmin Pilot to be a lot more usable once I disconnected it from my FltPlan.com account. The integration was too annoying for me to get any value from it.

Walk the wings all the way to Vr. Passengers will pay extra for the entertainment.

I would suspect that a big part of the overhead on such a feature would be avionics certification. Prove on paper and in testing that there is no possible failure mode of the new camera, display, or wiring that can interfere with the operation of anything else in the plane. And do that...

Can anyone recommend a good book or even documentary on how the levels of precision described in this thread were achieved at the time? Millionths of an inch done millions of times is hard to wrap my brain around. In return, my book recommendation is Neptune by Craig Symonds. The audiobook is...

I think you’ll be amaized when the pattern repeats every spring. The quality might go down if we don’t let the field lie fallow for a while, though.

Not even close. The ground is too fertile.

Joke’s on you. Today was my Monday. Forty-sixth Monday in a row.

The pilot was found without injuries, other than his furrowed brow.

Thanks for sharing that. It looks like the Garmin post might focus on the Mac version of the software. Do you recall if they are aware of the issues I've been having with the Windows version? I doubt I'm the only one having them but don't want to miss a chance to get things fixed if it turns out...

I don’t know how the economics of the $150 Challenger model work, but I have flown through one of the Apollo missions (8, I believe, but it was years ago) at nearly that level of simulation. I paid $0 for the simulation software and $0 more for the spacecraft model. To me, $150 seems like...

They do tend to grow on you.

I'm updating two planes tonight. One has Database Sync, the other has two G3X Touch screens and a GTN. So far, the Windows GADM has locked up starting the download, permanently corrupted my normal SD card for the Sync plane, then wanted two SD cards for that plane so it could put the airport...

...or a second pass by the Airbus.

Lycoming is really easy: Attempt the POH hot start checklist twice, then proceed to the POH flooded start checklist.

My experience has been that the insurance premium is based on the highest-risk named pilot. If you buy an Arrow and have 10 hours in type and no instrument rating, you can add me as a named pilot basically for free. If you have an instrument rating and 100 hours in your 172, though, they will...

The Corolla illusion is a type of spatial disorientation that can occur when a pilot thinks that he will be able to afford a Toyota car before he signs with a major airline.

I'm curious if 60% of the dollar value of the damage was taken by the CRJ. A350 wing repair vs. CRJ tail replacement (or depreciated value of the plane less its in-place scrap value).

Just be glad you stopped watching back when it was at least about some form of gridiron football. Now it is mostly about whether Taylor Swift looked like she had fun eating hors d'oeuvres at the game.

In my simplified lexicon, “reasonable” means there has to be a logical reason for it. What is the logical reason for the fee this thread is about? Probably “turbine aircraft and their crews and passengers require more space, effort, attention, etc. so we should charge them more.” It missed the...