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What are the thoughts of those who've "been there and done that". I have an opportunity to "tag along" and "manipulate the controls" from the backseat of a low-powered, small, hand-propped, two-seat tandem taildragger. I have 0 logged hours and this won't count toward any certification (which I...

Thanks. I have heard of going this route but she really spells it out step by step.

Is there a place (maybe here?) where I could post screenshots of a 17 page 1971 Operators Handbook for a Franklin 2A-120? The Franklin Engine Company doesn't exist anymore, and while the O-120 shares many parts with the O-235 and O-350 (it is basically half of the first and a-third of the...

Identification Chart Rene / Fiona I thought that the two questions that I asked here were relevant to the topic of the website.

As I said before, I think that -- like so many -- they perceive things they have done or things that they know other people have done and survived as safe . . .. So, not wearing seat belts, driving a pickup onto a frozen lake, and climbing onto a roof to nail down shingles after three beers is...

I think that's the only way to exceede 87 kn in a 7 ACA. :rolleyes:

I don't think that my parents are all that different from most of the adults that I know. They lack the ability to make rational risk to reward assessments and have a false binary "safe" - "dangerous" model in which the familiar is safe if it hasn't bitten them (so high school football, ice...

I'm so sad . . .. I even missed out on lawn darts! Although Martha Lunken's version with sacks of flour sounds like more fun. :rolleyes: (Don't worry, I'll stay away from bridges.)

I'm smart enough to stay away from speed. But, I certainly know other "smart kids" who happily accept scripts for things they really don't "need", because it's offered. I have plenty of classmates who drink alcohol and ingest THC (be it obtained by older siblings, friends, parents, or "grown out...

As stated the school employs a Nurse Practitioner. NPs can write scripts. I never said the school janitor was handing out speed, or that anyone was handing it without a script. But, you know, back in the 70s USAF and USA officers were handing out speed in SEA. Ritalin is "Meth-lite", and no...

Right now no official hours. I don't think that I can get a medical for about a year, because the folks I know about say I'd need a parent to sign. But that doesn't matter right now. When one of "our" planes returns I type the condition and time on a tablet, make sure nobody barfed (oh . . ...

Well . . . how dare you read books in school of all places! I hear you, one of our coaches, who I doubt can count to 26 . . . let alone 27 or 28 :rolleyes: was my study hall teacher this year. But I got all of my work for all of my other classes done in there and still got a math credit...

They are easy to distinguish, 18R / 36L is 4000 feet of nice well drained grass with yellow cones marking the sides . . . 18L / 36R is much longer, paved, and has lots of cars, SUVs, and semis on it much of the time. :cool: (CFI jokes are much like dad jokes.)

That's fine. If my CFI doesn't think I'm ready it's based on his assessment of my skills and what I need to work on. As opposed to my parent's refusal to sign a form allowing me to rent an airplane.

Horizontally or in a 90* dive? :cool: A-759 XXII. "Airspeed Limits Level flight or climb 95 m.p.h. (83 knots) True Ind. Glide or dive 129 m.p.h. (112 knots) True Ind."

I might have considered that if I could have started this summer. But I cannot "rent" the aircraft without parental permission and that is not happening. So, I have a year to save up and enjoy those free rides -- and free stick time -- that I am occasionally gifted. I know of people who have...

Seriously, if I walk to my high school I pass three dispensaries and four liquor stores. If I drive to the airport where I work I pass two different dispensaries and four different liquor stores. (Good thing that the economy has never been better, and we are all enjoying those 4 million new jobs.)

The district employs a nurse practitioner. Now, I'm just 17 . . . I'll be a senior in the fall . . . but dispensing free speed to adolescents you saw for 15-seconds -- if at all -- just doesn't sound like a very prudent policy to me. Meanwhile, a nearby state charged an insurance company...

I play the guitar . . .. :rolleyes:

I don't partake. And I know speed is a no-no even if the school says yes-yes. Since schools are not a place to learn, I guess the "golden rule" is to remain invisible until my parole . . . oops . . . I meant graduation.