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I just can’t believe these kids don’t know how to manually retard and advance the spark nowadays! Don’t get me started about automatic chokes! I mean, what idiots they are! And while we’re on the subject, what’s the crap about antibiotics anyway? Back in my day, you lived or didn’t. We were...

Is it for sale? I do enjoy setting down there now and again. Hard to tell why it exists though. Was there a marble factory there at one point? Seem to be alot in the ground there. I fly out of MRB.

I am blown away by the response! It is not available until 7 Dec but is already #1 in presales in Cold War biographies and not far in the others: Amazon.com Sales Rank #90,713 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1 in Biographies of the Cold War #3 in Biographies of the Military...

I have the flag I retired with next to the flags my father and father in law were buried with. My dad had alot of decorations but I kept mine simple with just rank and warfare insignia. My wife says says when I die she will line all four boxes up.

Hi everyone, this is not an aviation-themed book but it might interest people here as I know there are several former military members here. This is out for pre-sales, release 7 Dec. So far an ebook & paperback but will release an audio version later; prices go up after release. Might seem a...

Any pilots from the UK here? At GA fields there I have noticed everyone is required to wear hi-viz vests, to the point they are not even allowed to disembark until someone walks up to the plane and hands them out.

I took the survey and wish you luck. I don’t know how it works on a larger plane, but on mine, when I toggle the heating knob I get a strong whiff of whatever is going on in the engine compartment two feet in front of me. The heater is just a half cowling that wraps around the exhaust pipes. So...

That is quite terrifying! Would you mind elaborating, if you haven’t done so previously? I am always on the lookout for lessons learned; that is the main reason I look at this forum.

My favorite after Titus Andronicus! I have the entire scene at the siege of Harfleur memorized. Hard to choose a favorite movie because if you have seen the stage play as much as I have you are bummed by all the lines the movies leave out. Henry V set the archetype for war movies for the next...

I graduated HS in 79 so wasn’t subject to the draft. Didn’t join ROTC but in any case it wasn’t on campus, the student had firebombed it a few years before and all the services pulled out of Stanford, not to return. The ROTC guys had to travel to Berkley to go; I believe they still do today.

Times sure have changed. My graduating class at Stanford had exactly 7 of us serve in the military out of a class of 1600. In the late 70s, military service was vilified on campus; there was no distinction made between those who served and the nation’s policies. Nowadays everyone wants to thank...

I kind of like seeing it; not only does it check the op of the transponder and the tailbeacon, it also gives me a ownship position if I lose GPS which happens occasionally. The adsb trace overlays the ownship from gps so it doesn’t clutter

I have a Tailbeacon and verified it worked with PAPR post-installation but never since. But I always see myself on the ADSB receiver which tells me two things: 1. The Tailbeacon is working 2. My mode-c works because the ADSB shows “VFR” which means it sees the mode c giing out squawking 1200.

A pig like that, you don’t eat all at once.

I regularly make a run from MRB-HWY-W75 that brings me under the IAD class B by a few hundred feet and right by the SFRA by about 2 miles. Never talked to anyone. When I first started making it, 30 years ago, the class B controller blew me off and I never tried again. I’ve made that run hundreds...

$280/month at KMRB which is near the periphery of the IAD class B. Used to think that was alot but reading this thread makes me feel good about it. It is class D and the field ‘s A&P is across the taxiway from me. Doesn’t have heat per se but it does have internet and electricity and I use it as...

I flew a load into Hickory NC yesterday and it went very smoothly. The tower had fixed wing landing on 24 and rotorcraft over on 19 to separate us. I was unloaded and refueled in 20 minutes. All kinds of people were there, sheriffs deputies, police, military, civilians.it was busy but organized...

I can see a challenge based on the Interstate Commerce Clause. CA is such a large user it will gave an effect on the rest of the nation; MO used this to contest CA’s mandate for electric vehicles.(still being litigated) Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Congress shall have power to regulate...

Posted this before but it bears repeating: My doc has been signing off on Basic Med since it came out, last time time told him, “You know, doc, the only reason I bother getting a physical is to get you to sign me off for flying.” (63 yo and in perfect health, stats all in spec and take no meds)...

I don’t know the details of this case, but my experience with Army helo pilots is they seldom adhere to the rules we in GA do, so I tend to be sympathetic with the snowmobile driver. Two weeks ago I flew in Hopkinsville and there was Blackhawk hanging out on the runway, not talking, then he took...