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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    Private property rights are enforced on a federal, state, local, and native reservation rights. This has been fought more than once and the property owner wins about 99% of the time. Keep trying folks, you might eventually find some corner, obscure, non-related AH-HAH! case. Edit to add: Has...
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    You're making things up now. They can leave, and they can take their property. Just not on the runway. I said it's unsafe, I'm the airport manager, owner of the property, and I have to answer to the deceased relatives that I have authorized a flight in unsafe conditions. Now, if the popo show...
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    DOGE and the FAA

    Funny enough, I bought a yacht this year. Here's something for you to chew on. I paid more in taxes this year(incl state sales tax) than you made in income.
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    DOGE and the FAA

    So, is $50B in waste not worth eliminating? What is your threshold for wasteful spending by a govt? My threshold is zero. None, nada, nyet wasteful spending of my hard earned tax dollars. You - I can see disagree with that level. No we don't have any 50 years of effort to contain waste. In fact...
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    They can leave, just not by aircraft. The runway has been closed. Ergo, the Piggly Wiggly parking lot has been closed. Leave by other means, but leave. The person is not being restricted from departing a place they no longer want to be. But - unless they want to disassemble, and trailer the...
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    Would welcome opinions with a valid law degree in hand. Sans law degree I will give the opinion all the attention it deserves.:cheerswine:
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    So, College Park MD(strange, I've been there) is publicly owned, and open to the public. MY Personal airport is PRIVATELY OWNED, open to the public. I can and will enforce trespass on private property. By hunters, drivers, walkers, MC riders, and - operators of aircraft. I've run off hunters...
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    I know. I've been there many times. I've driven the road from the airport to the town in a small jitney(in the late 80s), and it's a mega-hassle. We'll see if operational changes are made by the Conservancy. What I see in my crystal ball is the conservancy deciding that a runway on the island...
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    DOGE and the FAA

    I don't know where you get that 'suggestion'. I was and even stated I'm talking about history. Ron expressed that many govt jobs 'went away'. Well, in about 1946, yes they did, after WWII. I hope this clears up any confusion regarding a 'suggestion' (that was never referenced).
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    DOGE and the FAA

    I get that you have a different ax to grind. Stay on the course, and open your own thread about 'those in need'. I can define $10B right now in a matter of minutes that is wasteful spending under the auspices of the exec office that can and should go away permanently. And, $10B is only a small...
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    DOGE and the FAA

    History reminded me that we had a war to support, and then fight. Many of those labor positions converted within 12 months to soldiers, sailors, Marines, etc. Plus the labor to build war materiel. They didn't really 'go away' so much as changed uniform.
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    DOGE and the FAA

    You are determined to get this thread shut down I see. Can you related your concern back to wasteful govt spending cuts? Please?
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    DOGE and the FAA

    A nation cannot tax itself to prosperity. We don't have a taxation problem in the US, and even if we did, the tinkering with tax rates, and distribution is a different discussion altogether. Taxation and how it's collected can be discussed in another forum(if the mods say so), this forum thread...
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    The "Back in my day" Thread

    Don't start. If you know what these are. it was cold - it was dark - and it will last the rest of your life.
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    DOGE and the FAA

    Perhaps this will clear up my POV on the subject: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/pack-up-bureaucrats-vivek-ramaswamy-reveals-how-trump/ Provided it doesn't get me perma-banned. The process is to go after exec controlled, and exec managed functions that the exec and now DOGE knows are...
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    I'm going to offer up another opinion on the PIC state of mind. I suspect, the PIC knew he was going to leave Avalon airport when he was on the ground on the mainland. There was nothing short of a disabled aircraft that was going to stop him from pushing the throttles forward at some time that...
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    As you said, the airport mgr told them the runway was closed, but he didn't have the authority to stop them from taking off. I don't know if he said anything about dangerous or not. I am an airport mgr. And I can tell you right here and now if I say the airport is closed, that means there will...
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    Pa32 lands in pits at Pomona dragstrip

    Is the airfoil on the short wing a NACA 65-415? I don't know much about either the Cher 6-300 or short wing fabric Piper, but I though the airfoil was the same, or very similar. Like NACA 65(2)-415. The Cher 6-300 has a high lift wing for its span. Later tapered wing is a diff airfoil section...
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    The "Back in my day" Thread

    Broadsheet printed newspapers. As a young kid, I recall grabbing the intl section of a newspaper one morning. I learned what went on in a place called 'New Delhi' that the prime minister was a woman! After that I consumed newspapers for years. I miss it.
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    Thank You for Your Service

    I never make my status known. Except for discounts. My kids were in 3rd and 4th grade, and the elementary had a vet night on Nov 11. They had records of all vet parents. They called out names, and all the kids clapped briefly as the vet went to the front of the cafeteria. I was near the end and...
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