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No, I understand. I believe there are two significant purposes for the reports: gathering data to aid in improving aviation safety and...

Didn’t mean to imply that ATC actively looked at an audit trail. My bad. What I meant was, unlike the OP situation, if a non-IFR-rated...

I can’t say every time but my experience is similar. Maybe because we log in before filing pre-flight (and therefore there’s an audit...

Violated the regs? Yes. Worth declaring an emergency, as described? Personally, I don’t think so unless you actually felt like there...

We’re with USAA, which seems to be one of the best for coverage and service at a competitive price and ours is going up about 50%...

More specifically, the retired Marine crowd, which is very vocal about any perceived loosening of their ethos. Look at the very public...

Lots of assumptions there. I don’t see the Marine aviation community losing their minds over this.

In regards to whom or what the marines give their awards… it ain’t none of my business.

They do and this guy was awarded it because he’s a pilot. Obviously the Marine Corps looks at his impact on aviation as a remote pilot...

I respect the points in your post (as I do in all of the others, including ones with which I disagree). For this observation, consider...

Does the USMC define them as Marine Aviators? Not sure but I doubt it. If so, their game, their rules. It’s not a People’s Choice Award.

Well the threat to those operating UAVs on the major FOBs in theater was minimal. A civilian contractor working as a cook in the chow...

And the guys who fly Air Force 1 and all of the Special Airlift King Airs, etc., same thing? But the guy piloting the drone and making...

So…the B2 pilots who flew their bombardiers from Whiteman AFB, MO and dropped their bombs from well above the range of any known AA...

This thread reminds me of a Bill Mauldin cartoon from WWII: (Note that the admin corporal is wearing a combat infantryman badge, which...