Recent content by bflynn

Or...radical idea...the pilots themselves. At some point, you're going to know that you're not capable anymore. Maybe an instructor will talk to you, maybe you'll be critical of your flights and decide it's time. But at some point you will know that it's time to stop. Don't forget that with...

Rule 1 to understand: Incentives are not for the buyer. They allow the manufacturer to sell at a higher price. If you’re buying an apple for $1 and I give you another dollar so the apple seller can sell it at $2, you should be indifferent. Incentives are to help companies recoup tooling and...

Savannah is one of the greatest towns I’ve spent time in. We usually stayed near Forsyth Park most weeks and walked into downtown for dinner, sometimes stayed downtown.

Wouldn't that just be One? Like Tora?

Oh come on...at this point we know that you know that we know that you ARE the type guy who would say both a false thing that is true and a true thing that is false, frequently using the same words. No fooling us twice....

I hear these guys are pretty cheap and they work for bird feed. Otherwise, we have the yellow->brown chemical detectors in our aircraft.

My wife and her father both have low blood pressure. Their (same) doctor recommended potato chips.

At least he DID go around. He might have firewall damage, but he went around. Too much speed -> landing flat or worse, nosewheel first. On the first bounce, go around.

Happy Sinko de Mayo.

Looks like grease. Possibly some thing was over greased, maybe in the wheel struts? Did you recently have maintenance done?

Is that Doc or Fifi in the hangar? I thought one was in Addison and the other at Fort Worth.

Link to AC 120-26M https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_120-26M_Assignment_of_Call_Signs_9_10_18_(signed).pdf

Seems to be the same reason there are so many maintenance problems - new graduates being put on the front lines too soon with not enough experience and little oversight. At least that's my impression.