Recent content by BigSam

Probably the best route is a tax exempt muni bond fund. ~4-5% dividend, tax-free (depending on your state), fairly liquid, and doesn't tend to fluctuate in value as much as stock-based funds. There's usually a ton of choices with no load from a Scottrade or similar account.

Gonna have to lose some weight, you're over gross!

Did that as the last leg of my longest x-c. Hit fuel-reserve time and KDTO was $.50/gal cheaper, anyway.

My first logged flight was KGKY-KGPM followed by the even shorter (winds 180) KGPM-KGKY.

52F-KWLD 247NM 2.5hrs up 3.5hrs back (20kt headwind, was barely outpacing ground traffic on I-35) 172B

If your airplane is collecting dust, the problem is lack of use, not lack of cover.

I'm torn. At one end it seems an extravagant waste of avgas. On the other hand, I love puppies and it could be a great way to build time so I could qualify to do Angel Flights. Denver is a bit far to take the trip in a 172, though.

As much as that sounds like a joke, I've used the golf-ball launching attachment with an AR15. There are 2 types of blanks for AR15/M16. The first is a practice blank for "live fire" drills with a blank-firing adapter. Those are the ones used to launch the golf balls. The others are designed to...

Hell no, I won't go! The FBO where I finished my PPL had a 172 with a yoke that squeaked very close to the pitch of the stall horn when it was pulled back at about the same point as rotation and beginning of the flare. Took me quite some time to fight the urge to shove it forward when it did...

Make sure not to use the grenade-launcher blanks.

If you plan to upgrade quicken or quickbooks, go with at least 7. With MS dropping support, you can expect software vendors to follow suit in short order.

So long as there was room under the clouds, and the gust factors were not offensive (~8-10kts gust factor on 15-20kts is too much) or too cross-windy, (20kts, no problem, directly across the runway, no way!), we went. I tried to chicken out when there were some radar returns, and ended up...

At least now there ARE new airplane designs. When I started flying in 1994, that was not the case. Complain all you want, but Diamond, Cirrus, FD, etc. really didn't exist then. The past 20 years have been a decent recovery for GA.

Age: 40 Occupation: I make the internet go. FAST. "amateur" investor. BBA, Summa Cum Laude, Beta Gamma Sigma. (gotta throw those bragging rights around somewhere, they're of nearly 0 value at my day job) Hrs/types: 70TT Just got my ticket in November after a 20 year student pilot career...

Singles are much more dangerous. Especially singles that started the flight as a twin.