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Again, that depends on the embarkment nation. There are a number of nations in which we do significantly more thorough inspections for ships entering our ports than others due to that inconsistency. Some nations have a remarkably high occurrence of stowaways. Typically those same nations are...

The monk who set himself ablaze in Vietnam seemed pretty calm to me. I work in a field where the average person would lose their minds doing what we do on an average day. There are professions out there where what I think is crazy is normal. Most people cannot fathom driving a car at 100mph...

I think you might have stumbled across the single best way to explain this to a new pilot of *ahem* this era. Then again...I fear my oldest son (12 years old right now) may be one of the few in today's society who has actually USED a gas-powered mower.

There's a risk management concept taught in the Coast Guard (and many other areas) that is not mentioned in the PHAK...the Swiss Cheese model. We are all seeing and discussing the end result. We're simply making assumptions (albeit LIKELY correct assumptions) but to Jack's question, we should...

Wild that your friend thought to open the tank that way. The crazy things that happen in machines! It's all so simple yet so easy to screw up!

No, I'm not suggesting changing hiring requirements at all. Hell, with some of what we've seen lately I'm beginning to wonder if the 1500 mark should be scrutinized! What I'm suggesting is that someone in my position doesn't have a clear path without significant hardship on one's family...

Happy to. In my situation, for example I am the sole income for my family - wife and two kids aged 12 and 8. My income is more than sufficient to live comfortably on Cape Cod because I'm blessed with a rent payment that is somewhere between a third and half of what most have to pay around here...

@hindsight2020 It's too bad I cant react with multiple emotes on that post. I wanna laugh, like, and be angry at the same time. But yeah...get rich or die trying seems to be the way. And so long as we have young pilots coming out of college programs and fast-tracks willing to work for...

The whole time reading through this thread I'm thinking to myself that the OP took the time to find this site, create a new profile with a user name specific to the upcoming post, wrote that really long, almost unintelligible rant, clearly didn't proofread it, then post it, and think he was...

Apparently there is no limit until you work for an outfit that does all your fuel calculations for you (airlines) and even then, chances are never zero.

Replying to the OP question before reading through the whole thread... I got back into GA after a 20 year hiatus. My local field that has a flight school is CQX, a target of anti-airport activists. Nearly every week in the local paper there's some negative nancy screaming at the clouds about...

My family lives about 5 miles from the crash site. I'd really like to know when this guy ran it out of fuel. Plenty of better options to put down in that area than on the access road of a major highway in town...right next to a high school. All of the highways that enter and leave Victoria...

While there is certainly "grey area" in almost everything I feel that the grey has become so very wide that most folks are only willing to call right/wrong when it is clearly obvious. It's so rare for folks to recognize that's there's simply evil people in our society and one does not need to...

So what if my departure field is non-towered such as CQX? Call Clearance Delivery on the phone? CQX is notorious for not being able to hear Boston Approach or CD from the ground.

Happy Thanksgiving, Aviators! As per usual, the President is on Nantucket for Thanksgiving and with him is the 30nm TFR. That TFR covers every field on Cape except for Provincetown. I've read the TFR, of course but I'm a little unclear on what I as a VFR pilot can do in a TFR. Am I just...

What sort of variables were included in the calculations? Aerodynamics of existing cars or future designs? Fuel types?

Pilot couldn't have asked for a better place to put it down. NHRA's Safety Safari are the best out there. Sounds like the on-scene time was seconds. Too bad he couldn't line up with the strip as opposed to going in perpendicular. By the way...that same race had a driver break the 340 MPH...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet but a home copy of Flight Simulator can be very helpful. Tomorrow, the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is supposed to drop and within it are flight lessons and a "career" mode. Don't get me wrong, flight simming is not a substitute for what you do...

Given that they've all been removed from YT I doubt we'll ever see them again. Especially given how much the aviation community came down on the absolutely terrible airmanship. At this point, I think most of us are waiting to see what the NTSB finds.

And nowadays, smoking is so much rarer that the smell is significantly more obvious. I learned this the hard way when my family moved to California in the 90s. Smoking wasn't nearly as popular in that region and all of a sudden I was getting bullied for the smell of my clothes. That had never...