Recent content by CJones

Interesting. So instead of saying "Do loops around Lake _____ to hold", they say "Go back to point XYZ and come back in and try again", which essentially makes the whole approach route a combination arrival/hold route.

On the bright side, I can carry whatever size pocket knife I want for this trip!

That's what got me this time - less flexibility than normal. A "gotta get there" time on Friday combined with a "can't leave too early on Thursday" forced me into a window that I didn't like.

We've had experience doing the "wait out a passing line of storms at a sleepy FBO in the middle of nowhere", so that's not new to her. But I don't want to think about the steely glare I would be getting if we were sitting in that sleepy FBO at the time that we were *supposed* to be at the party...

Yep. GA to IA. What hosed me on this trip was that we NEEDED to be there by a certain time on Friday (for the graduation party). Usually we have somewhat open-ended arrival/departure times so I can take the long way around or sit a line out somewhere, but the schedule demands were too tight and...

It's usually around $120/ticket. So in this case, if I had bought them last week when I was looking at ~$500/ticket + $120 refundable upcharge, I would have still been better off than what I paid last night. DOH!

Wellp, yet another attempt at using GA for XC travel just bit the dust. Was hoping to fly the family to Iowa this weekend for a nephew's graduation party, but the WX is just too darn iffy - or maybe I'm just getting wussier in my old(er) age. It has literally been years since we used GA for...

My high school girlfriend's mom was from Enterprise. And that's all I got to say about that.

Saw one in the wild at a restaurant in Cali a few weeks ago. I was very underwhelmed. I was underwhelmed. Seemed like it took up the space of a full-sized truck, but I don't see how there is ANY kind of room inside (especially for someone like me that needs decent leg and headroom). Sent the pic...

Pre-covid, I used it as a good way to try out different styles and models of vehicles. Post-covid, it seems that the fleets are mostly made up of small cross-overs and minivans and very few SUVs or 'niceish' sedans.

I like that. I need to find something smaller for EDC. Currently lugging around a Gerber Custom Sedulo - had to do 'custom' to get it US made. It's nice, but a bit bulky (and pricey).

So THAT'S what you were doing on the way back from Hoppy's that night - you weren't taking us into the woods to kill us, you were just shopping for real estate, right? RIGHT!?

I have carried a knife for as long as I can remember. Grew up on a farm and later worked in retail and private ag, so it's just ingrained in me I guess. And yes - I also have the leather belt-loop pouch for carrying the pair of mini-vice grips that my dad used when he was farming. I still feel...

The vast majority of the time, I use National for work, except for a few years ago when I was driving from home to a site and it was easier to just use the neighborhood Enterprise office for pickup. The biggest pain I had there was that they VERY rarely threw an upgrade my way, despite...

Several years ago when I was tinkering with RPi's, I thought auto-aiming/leveling landing lights would be cool. Never got around to actually chasing it down though. Was watching a Mark Rober YT video the other day with my two boys and he was introducing his new 'HackBox' - a microcontroller...