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  1. flyingron

    The death of an insitution

    You can take the boy out of scouting but you can't take the scouting out of the boy.
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    Cholesterol, do I need to pick up smokin' and drinkin,??

    I found that going on the high fiber, low fat diet did nothing significant with my cholesterol. Working out and losing 50 lbs did a much better job.
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    Empty cargo planes roam the skies

    Yeah, they sent me a bill for my PO box and then another even though I had mailed them payment (and they had cashed it). I complained via the website and they sent the inquiry to the wrong (next town over) PO which had a runaround trying to verify my identity because my name didn't match what...
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    Base leg altitude

    10:1 glideslope is 5.7°. Most planes will not make the runway without power trying to maintain a 3° glideslope. But again, nobody lands here without getting further than 200 feet from my house. Many air carrier airports have approaches that take you less than 500' from vehicle traffic...
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    Base leg altitude

    I'm going to suggest we not go down the Trent Palmer rathole here. TP even by his own story (which the FAA and many others find suspect), HE WAS NOT LANDING. That's distinct from your supposition that you were flying the pattern to a landing. If you had to maintain 500' from every...
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    Base leg altitude

    What makes you think there is a FAR violation? I start a descent abeam the numbers and continue it around the rest of the pattern. The minimum altitude rule 91.119 begins: Except when necessary for takeoff or landing,...
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    Basic Med for first time medical cert

    It's an industry term.
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    Wings Program Test Question

    The program used to be simple and effective. Now, it is mainly inscrutable. Anything that you have to take a course to figure out how to take courses is doomed.
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    New Pilot Looking for a Headset

    Do you want to still have hearing when you get further in your career? You don't need top of the line, but you do need something that provides good attenuation. Your best bet is to go somewhere (Oshkosh works well) where you can try several on your head.
  10. flyingron

    Medical status in medxpress vs. airman registry

    Does it say "NOT USABLE FOR ANY CLASS AFTER 6/25" or "FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL NNN-NNN-NNNN" ? Those are the usual signs of a special issuance.
  11. flyingron

    WTF, over? (Video of a bad landing and go around)

    Half-arsed landing followed by half-arsed go-around. Really, once you have a bounce like that either close the throttle and ride it out or put the power to it, assume climb attitude and go around again. Trying to modulate a bad landing is just going to end up with more dynamics in your...
  12. flyingron

    VOR Radials

    A VOR is an entirely analog device. The radial is defined by the relative phase between two signals. There are an infinite number of radials.
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    Recommendation for previous military drug charge and mental health issues

    Forget AOPA. They won't give you useful advice. What you need is a good HIMS AME who will do a pre-application consultation with you as to what you are up against. The devil is in the details here.
  14. flyingron

    Amtrak service temporarily disrupted between Baltimore and Philadelphia

    Yep, there are fairly few passenger lines that work well in the US. The DC-NY corridor is pretty much the only one. Of course, that's until some Conrail guys are smoking pot rather than paying attention to what they are doing (the site of that crash was in our volunteer fire department's...
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    Amtrak service temporarily disrupted between Baltimore and Philadelphia

    Well, Baltimore to Philly is only that, but going from DC to NYC takes the same route and is affected by this and this is one of the few places where AMTRAK is a net win over flying. Downtown to downtown in less time than it takes getting to/from the airport on both ends. Used to regularly go...
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    IFR in a different category question

    Years ago I was heading VFR to Oshkosh. Getting VFR services from MKE I note that Oshkosh is IFR ahead. 27K: Milwaukee Approach, Navion 27K Looks like Oshkosh is IFR. Can I get an IFR clearance from you or do I need to go to Flight Service. MKE: (an audible sigh on the radio, like it's...
  17. flyingron

    Passing Medical with past drug addiction.

    No new content being generated here but bickering between the posters. Locked.
  18. flyingron

    IFR in a different category question

    In this case, it's like he doesn't have an instrument rating. Note that the Airplane instrument rating does carry over into the glider class.
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