Recent content by DavidWhite

I think the only real assistance that AVIATE offers is an $18k stipend to get your private if you don’t have it already. Otherwise it’s just a flight school.

Hiring anyone based on anything other than their qualifications is absolutely ridiculous, especially for something as critical as pilots. Ron Schneider has a pretty good bit on this. I’d love to see the gender and race section go away completely on all apps. I have a friend who applied twice...

Apparently that particular pilot was quitted out of Atlas training, sued for discrimination, and was given a second chance to complete the course.

I think you suspect accurately.

On this we can agree wholeheartedly.

You mean "The father of capitalism"? The guy who would today be diagnosed with schizophrenia? Yes I am familiar with his "works". edit: I actually like a lot of what Adam Smith has to say, but the economic system he envisioned is not currently what we have implemented in the US. It would be...

Again, is McDonalds a necessity? Some reading comprehension may be in order.

So do I need to go through the entire New York Stock Exchange line by line? McDonalds is not the only corporation experiencing this phenomenon of increased net profit while squealing that they are having to increase prices due to the rising cost of labor.

Is McDonalds a necessity?

Corporations have figured out that the market will bear almost anything when it comes to necessities. The alternative is homelessness/malnutrition. The American dream is as dead as George Washington and we have no one to blame but Wall Street and corrupt politicians. It's not about party lines...

So if all the nice people that run these massive corporations are doing everything they can for us, the little people, then why are corporate profits (nearly across the board) soaring to record heights? Why do prices continue to rise? I agree with you that this inflation isn't transitory, but...

Okay so shouldn't prices be going down then?

Corporate profits drive prices considerably more than employee wages do. McDonalds made over $40,000/employee net last year for a grand total of $8.5B, a 37% increase from the previous year. All that despite the cost of wages going up. If you want to be mad at people for prices going up, don't...

I will add, that the way both Flightsafety and CAE train circling approaches is an absolute joke. I don’t know what the right way to do it is, but teaching someone all the “tricks” on how to circle into a single airport (usually somewhere very flat) isn’t it. I’ve always thought Truckee would be...

Thats not how that works. Here’s a good article about stall speed and bank angles. I agree, never any reason to bank more than 30 however.