Recent content by DJTorrente

I shopped used Bose Ten (X) back in the day when the A20 was the new hotness. Those CFIs moving up (God love them) and needing TSO'd also needed money and wanted $900 for a used headset that sold for $950 new. Maybe they got that much, just not from me.

Then how the hell could he make "Red Tails" so forgettable?

The story of Part 3 could have been interesting: Trying to find redemption via the Church, but finding it wanting; passing the torch to the next generation; shielding his daughter the way his father tried to protect him. The casting they were stuck with, however...

The legal system, the "FAA" (EASA) silliness, the tax system, they are all one system. You can't quite pick and choose. They have plenty enough bureaucrats, who look and function a lot like lawyers do here. They don't have as many "lawyers" per se, meaning free agents, as we do in part because...

Where GenAv -- as we know it in the US -- is all but nonexistent. They fly gliders and have to winch launch since 100LL can sell for 2-3 Euro/liter -- $9-12/gal !!! Aside: I noticed this on the EAOPA page where I checked current fuel prices: "According to European Directive 2003/96/EC only...

Tangent: This is REAL higher education we need more of in our world. Go Aggies.

I find almost everyone who likes to channel Shakespeare on lawyers changes their tune dramatically as soon as they need legal services. YMMV

An ANR headset with ANR turned off is not the same as a non-ANR headset. Don't use that metric to determine that you need ANR. If you want ANR, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it, but I'm on a personal crusade to "Fight Fuzzy Thinking". An ANR headset is designed to maximize noise...

There was a pilot (anonymously) on a message board I routinely read now decades ago who would remind fellow pilots that his employer (which I took to be Textron, also anonymous per him, but very thinly veiled) who owned a [the] leading volume GenAv airframe producer [read as Cessna, now also...

Short ribs (flank; belly) have more attached meat than loin/back ribs (what's left after you take a rib steak -- or roast -- off the bone). As to crispy critters, I've read attempts to explain the process (applied to brisket to explain "the stall") as a chemical process akin to the melting of...

Perhaps because sarcasm does not transmit well over text, I believe you and @Warmi are speaking past one another. I do not believe s/he was saying the Cuban auto market actually IS healthy; rather the description of the domestic GenAv market as healthy is mistaken because of the similarities...

I weep for the electrons needlessly slaughtered to make this thread possible.

My belief is that the extent of GenAv in the middle east is a small handful of what would otherwise be considered commercial passenger airframes, up to and including the A380, finished as a flying palace for one or more ruling families. If it were in the US, as much as it looks like Part...

OMG, it looks like it jumped off the bone. Can you share some deets? Time and temp? What kind of wood?

Which kind of makes me wonder, whatever his merits or shortfalls, would this thread have been a real conversation in a real room where Gryder was sitting?