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As a gyro pilot, I couldn’t agree more with you. It was shameful to see people on the rotaryforum try to rationalize this guy’s actions.

I don’t disagree with a single word you said AND I still am not sure the statement that “…the motivation for them to build businesses diminish…” is substantiated. My observation is that people tend to optimize their assets within their environment. Change the environment and they’ll change their...

That feels a lot like it deserves “The canard about high incomes paying lower tax rates taking away from the top, and the motivation for them to build businesses diminish, and the downstream effect is less employment or even layoffs, needs to be beaten down with extreme prejudice every single...

Not sure if that will happen but I gotta say, private equity is ruining lots of things in lots of domains, especially healthcare, IMHO. To see what they’re doing to assisted living facilities, ER groups, even plain old “senior living” places is disheartening. Overall I’m a fan of capitalism but...

I have this one and like it https://a.co/d/aIA1TAA

With Mothers Day coming up, I wonder if you can have a chemtrail named after someone like you can for stars

No, I understand. I believe there are two significant purposes for the reports: gathering data to aid in improving aviation safety and secondarily (to them; primarily to us pilots), to provide an alibi in certain situations when a pilot knows something went sideways. In this case, one could file...

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 pilot filed an IFR flight plan on line and then had some event that triggered a look-back, there would be a pretty good paper trail of how many times they filed...

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 trail), they don’t need to ask then but for pop-ups there’s less indications of who it really is.

Violated the regs? Yes. Worth declaring an emergency, as described? Personally, I don’t think so unless you actually felt like there was something beyond your resources (personal ability, aircraft resources, etc.). I’d contend there’s not a lot that’s harder in a PA-28 in IMC than in a...

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%, partly because of a recent claim but mostly because of increased home value plus increased claims overall. I spent an hour on the phone with an agent “negotiating”...

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 missiles (especially ballistic and cruise), V1 and V2 rockets, and even long-range artillery in certain circumstances. Stand-off capability has been around for...

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.

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 literally life and death decisions isn’t? This makes me think of IFR flying. We all know that for most of the flight in IMC what our brains tell us is...

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 stuff were “warriors” but the UAV operators embedded with a unit in Kandahar and subject to attacks from the ground for the months they were deployed were not?

It’s a figure of speech. Nobody has mentioned clouds yet either. And, yes, I’m participating in the discussion by bringing in a different perspective colored by my past personal experience with military awards (nominating people for them, seeing people get them, etc.). It just seems there are...

There’s a process for that. Write or call your Congress member. I worked on the other side of that fence for six years in two different jobs, dealing with complaints about medical benefits, etc., among other policy roles. Otherwise, this is just yelling at clouds. Which is entertaining for...

Like a manned aircraft aviator of the year? Sure - if they think it’s worth making the distinction. And I’m sure there are some fighter pilots who think airlift, tanker, AWACS, and other manned aircraft aviators should be excluded too. I served at a time when only physicians could command...

In which branch did you serve?

If this award, which is not explicitly a combat award, incentivizes innovation in warfighting that increases our effectiveness while decreasing our risk, what’s the downside? And it sounds like the guy didn’t even know he was a serious contender for it. Meanings change over time. Change is...