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We know what happens to a herd of deer on an island with no predators - disease, starvation, poor health. Wildlife managers work hard to prevent such situations - it's why they've reintroduced wolves here in the west. Then, when managing the health of our own species, we seek to kill off or...

The symptoms are the body's attempt to fight the virus, so technically the miserable part is not getting the flu, just experiencing your body's response to either the infection or the vaccine.

Yep. Got my primary training in a Champ at Airhaven, south of Portland, OR. I could also have chosen to drive across the river to Vancouver, WA and do it in Cubs at the time. Both were charging $35/hr wet, and another $35/hr for the CFI, back in 2002. Ah, the good old days... Come to think of...

The mods are now completed. Too bad...those videos are among my guilty pleasures. So many rental trucks bite the dust!

There is no COM antenna which provides a perfect match at all frequencies you'll want to use, or even at any frequency as they come out of the box. If you're lucky you'll see an SWR of 1.5 over about a 4 MHz range, worse above and below. I tuned my com antenna for about 121 MHz, since I most...

Unlike some professions, in aviation, regulation requires jobs go to the prepared. I believe airlines would rather hire a woman than a man right now, if only to correct the conspicuous imbalance, but the fact is anyone qualified to fly an airliner right now is going to get hired, male or female...

The breaker's job is to protect the aircraft's wiring from overheating, not to protect the radio. But if protecting the radio, I'd go with 10-amp anyway. A 7.5 is cutting it a little close, especially as the breaker ages.

Yep - "Radio license" used to be the second "R" in the documentation checklist acronym, "ARROW."

I recently got a Samsung smart watch, and because it's the LTE version, it has its own separate phone number. It's great to be able to leave home to walk or bike without my phone and still be able to take important calls, but it looks like whoever last had the phone number now assigned to my...

So, in that circumstance, call him "white Cessna. The FCC does not require you to identify his radio transmissions by callsign, only your own. In the US, your aircraft registration is an FCC radio license. The FCC requires transmissions be correctly identified in any licensed service so...

Tim O'Connor, the VP of the Popular Rotorcraft Association, offers an annual online ground school for Sport/Gyroplane each January for 12 weeks. Because there are so few gyro CFIs, and because getting ground school from a CFI an hour at a time is generally unstructured and inefficient, Tim now...

I've never seen a "police" scanner made since 1990 that didn't cover aircraft band. These things have to be $5 at yard sales by now. I have a couple I picked up that way, and they work great. Note, however, that using the included telescopic whip antenna in a metal hangar will offer...

Nate, I've been off this board for a few years, recently got back, only to see this thread. I've really appreciated your comments, perspective and humor over the years. So sorry this has happened. Regarding "don't put it off," my younger brother was working long hours at a sedentary job to "get...

There's some seriously crummy mic technique and diction here. If you need subtitles on your video, that should be a hint to speak more clearly!

Many veteran airline pilots are being shed by the airlines when they hit forced retirement age. It would be great if the pay was enough to lure some of these guys back into instruction, but they might not feel secure investing the time and effort to get into teaching. As one prominent CFI told...

The Jeep J6 concept truck has the proportions I'd want for off-roading. If only they'd build this!

I'm in the market for a new pickup to replace my 17-year-old Tundra, but nobody sells what I want in the US. I want a standard cab with a split bench seat, but in a higher trim with a decent off-road package. And I want it to fit in my short driveway. They all insist I buy a back seat that's not...

I'm happy to report that I'm finally going to retire from the day job on August 23rd, 2019, and expect to finally be back behind a mic soon on a weekly basis. Thanks for all who've kept encouraging me during the long hiatus. When the time comes, I'll start a new thread. Feels good!

There's no gray area here unless we try to create one. The problem lies in the company paying you for the time you were flying, and the subsequent use of the photos on the company's promotional FaceBook page, which is a commercial use. You and your coworker were essentially paid to take...

I find I can usually look it up in the FAR as quickly as I can post it here and wait for answers. Now that my hard copy of the FAR is three years out-of-date, I find the internet is my friend: Part 91 If someone tells you there is a rule requiring a TSO'd radio, he's the one who should be...