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    RWY closed except over 12500 lbs.

    Likely performing work on 13R/31L (the big runway) and want to limit ops on that runway to aircraft that can't use the smaller runways.
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    Operations Threshold to Establish a Tower

    TVL had a non-federal control tower, so the FAA thresholds didn't apply.
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    Latest Moderna vaccine ?

    I've had three or four doses if Pfizer with no ill effects and one dose of Moderna that took me out for 48 hours.
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    PA-44 down in Oregon

    Horrible, horrible video.
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    Remote towers - doomed?

    Are you referring to the webcam here? https://www.watsonvillepilots.org/airport
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    Remote towers - doomed?

    Unlikely. A screen showing "traffic in the system", whatever that means, is not the 360° view from high definition cameras that are the heart of a remote tower system.
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    Changes Since Your Initial Training (Get Off My Lawn edition)

    Cost!!! When I was learning to fly, I could rent a C-150 for less than $15/hour. They had a monthly special as low as $8.50/hour.
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    Proposed Rule - Agent for Service

    FAA is proposing a requirement that certificate holders with no physical US address designate an agent for service of FAA documents. https://www.regulations.gov/document/FAA-2023-1194-0001/comment While one might think this would only apply to foreign pilots who hold a US certificate, it...
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    Video of C-152 Stall/Spin @ Quebec City (CYQB)

    Pilot reportedly suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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    FAA Hiring Controllers

    Highly doubtful and certainly not any time since 1990. Looking at the traffic court figures, it was likely that PAO was the busiest single-runway airport until 1993, when SAN overtook it.
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    Suppose I lost my engine within gliding distance to Area 51

    Two plausible outcomes: 1. Whatever happened to SixPapaCharlie? 2. They find your body in the burnt up wreckage of your plane in a remote area 20 miles from the base.
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    Runways - how close?

    Who determined the RSA? According to the airport design standards, a 60ft. Wide runway has a 240 ft. Wide RSA (120 ft either side of the centerline).
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    Runways - how close?

    While 250' either side of the runway centerline is by far the most common RSA width, the standards are listed here: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/document.information/documentID/1040834
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    Tower conversation..did I mess up?

    That is what it sounded like to me too.
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    busting thru a tfr

    If you know the date, you can do an archive search at https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/
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    busting thru a tfr

    That link only shows current NOTAMs.
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    Mid-Air at Winter Haven

    Who says they allow that for a drone?
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    MiroCopter

    Anyone else notice the empty weight (249 lbs) plus the maximum pilot weight (273 lbs) is 1 pound greater than the maximum takeoff weight (551 lbs)?
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    Dear auto manufacturers.....[rant]

    Universal for backing down? It goes beep-beep-beep... for as long as it is in reverse. Mooring or anchoring?
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    Dear auto manufacturers.....[rant]

    My wife's Prius sounds a loud beep-beep-beep when it is in Reverse--inside the car, not outside (where it might make sense).
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