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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    So are you suggesting disabling a vehicle to prevent trespassing? Seems like building a fence and closing the gate would be a lot easier to defend.
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    DOGE and the FAA

    The government often disagrees with that.
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    DOGE and the FAA

    Unfortunately “in need” is defined by government in such a way that it often doesn’t agree with anyone else’s definition of “in need”.
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    DOGE and the FAA

    Keep in mind that during the Covid stuff, a large portion of the U.S. population was deemed non-essential. Not that I’m disagreeing with trimming down government substantially, mind you.
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    Can a CFII instruct with Basicmed instead of an FAA medical?

    Keep in mind that the context of the thread is instrument instruction…if there’s a view limiting device involved, the instructor needs to be qualified as a crew member, correct?
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    Forward vs Aft CG and Cruise Speed/Efficiency

    Cessna tried that, and got sued. :rolleyes:
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    DOGE and the FAA

    If you do that correctly, by the time you get to the “slowest possible speed,” stalling won’t change the outcome much.
  8. M

    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    yup…Like most anything in learning to fly, you can learn to do it right or you can learn to do it wrong.
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    It's official... BasicMed expanded

    They count licenses and fish in coolers when you come back from a Canadian fishing trip.
  10. M

    Southwest Airliner Hit by Gunfire in Dallas 11/15/24

    They made that thread drift in X as well? I thought Elon had better control over that. ;)
  11. M

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    So does farting Freddy, and I’m not sure which is more dangerous. ;) Or, if to a pilot lounge, you could pull out an E6B.
  12. M

    The "Back in my day" Thread

    C.O.D. turns! You could probably eject the egg without peeling it. ;)
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    Update on Catalina Baron crash

    While I’m not disagreeing, the pilot has to not only have “aviator brain,” but also the training and/or experience to recognize that too many adverse factors is, in fact, a problem. That could probably go into the thread about areas in which pilot training is generally deficient. As instructors...
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    Forward vs Aft CG and Cruise Speed/Efficiency

    Cleaning the bugs off will do more yet. ;)
  15. M

    The "Back in my day" Thread

    At least you didn’t drywall them in during a bathroom remodel…:rolleyes: I’m still not sure how many tools I lost in that wall.
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    The "Back in my day" Thread

    the first drive-in movie I remember was Patton…my parents used to go to drive-ins for date night, probably because they could pack my brothers and me along and not have to pay a babysitter. Chevy Vega station wagon, orange. ;)
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    FFS. I need a new hobby.

    I wish I had pictures of the thing I welded…or, more correctly, melted. Two pieces of 1/2” rod to a piece of U channel to bolt onto the pickup hitch for pulling the airplane (tailwheel first) to my uncle’s airstrip. The U-channel was mostly recognizable as such, but the 1/2” rods weren’t...
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    The "Back in my day" Thread

    Not only that, but Karl Malden shilled for ‘em. ;)
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    Forward vs Aft CG and Cruise Speed/Efficiency

    I used to play with it in the Beechjet 400…fuselage fuel was in the back, and transferring it forward moved the CG forward. After leveling off at FL410, as airspeed approached the barber pole, I’d start transferring fuel to slow down a few knots, then stop transfer to let it speed up, and start...
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    The "Back in my day" Thread

    Jeppesen trip kits.
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