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  1. DJTorrente

    Student Pilot radio comms and Class C -- step-by-step in chronological order

    Your CFI should be your source for this training. If he/she is not, you should find one who is. I am not a CFI, and particularly not your CFI. Procedures may vary based on how busy the airport is, which can change based on time of day. Some of these positions may be consolidated into fewer...
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    Opt Out of My Legal Rights?

    Not to stump in favor of compelled arbitration, but the most frequent filers of arbitrations are credit card companies seeking enforceable judgements against default debtors. Lenders have an institutional capability to prosecute their claims; defaulting debtors don't. Defaulting debtors also --...
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    Improper Sale of an Airplane?

    A municipal employee taking a termination quietly? That's the part of this that's hard to believe.
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    Opt Out of My Legal Rights?

    What is it about the acronym "FAA" that compels the subject it describes to be so disagreeable? :rofl:
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    Opt Out of My Legal Rights?

    I agree that dropping by for a chat would and could be a reasonable and possibly preferable way to resolve any questions you may have. Just be wary that anything you are told won't amount to anything enforceable against the credit union. When push comes to shove, anything put in writing will...
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    Deferring Marriage and a Family to fly professionally

    It's all in the name. Kudos to "em" for using an 8-year old, long dormant sock with 6 total posts to uncork that one.
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    Improper Sale of an Airplane?

    Too late. The FAA should have wanted to see Letters Testamentary or other Surrogate's Court papers attesting to the Next of Kin's rights to sign for the registered owner. The 2013 buyer, having never been recorded as owner by the FAA, would have -- at best -- an equitable interest in the...
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    Blue Angels IMAX

    JJ Abrams. 'Nuf said. I wanted to see it opening weekend, but there were no evening showings at my local theater. It's too bad they couldn't get the theaters to commit to run it as a feature film, even for opening weekend.
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    I Hate Enterprise

    About a year ago, my wife was put into one of those minivans on a college-hunting trip she took with our daughter. At the time she had been long driving an '07 Honda CR-V, which had a vertical shift lever that was centrally placed on the dash, below the radio, but higher than what should be...
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    What's For Dinner?

    Looks fantastic. Do you enjoy the marrow? Gremolata?
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    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    I think that neither I, nor anyone, should get to decide what is "excessive" profit. After 275 years, Adam Smith (of "Wealth of Nations" fame) is STILL right. Command economies have collapsed everywhere they've been tried -- to say nothing of 100 million people slaughtered because they were...
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    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    Or it could just be naked rent-seeking enabled by restrictive government regulation. Who's this guy Occam, and why does he need a TSO'd, PMA, STC'd razor to shave?
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    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    And the other 10,000 parts of the airframe, engine and avionics? Many if not most of which cost more than $400? If I grant you a nickel per part, per day, that's $500/day cost of ownership -- $180,000 per year. Thanks for making the point, even if unintentionally.
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    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    But... "Free shipping". WINNING! :yeahthat:
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    If [BLANK] is what you find too expensive about flying...

    I just wanted to come back to this. As was discussed elsewhere, "If the cost of your tools is keeping you out of flying ..."
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    What's For Dinner?

    Getting back to Chicken Fried Chicken...
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    N/A calling Calculator Nerds - what's the best graphing calculator these days?

    I believe the TI-94 (?) is the model my spouse's middle school provides her math students.
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    I think food should taste bad

    I understand the historic reasons that brewed alcoholic beverages were safer to consume -- particularly after storage -- than "fresh" water. That said, in today's age of easy, cheap and abundant filtration, sterilization, and refrigeration, I'm genuinely shocked at how prevalent drinking...
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    Do airlines or employers care what kind of logbook I have?

    This discussion charmingly reminds me of certain former classmates -- in the paleozoic era when e-mail was a communication tool, but electronic documents were not yet ubiquitous -- who, when being forced to provide a 2-page resume to make it readable and not a block of microscopic text, would...
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    What's For Dinner?

    By that you mean "F*@&ed up"?
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