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No, it is just hyperbole not a literal fence. It is just referring to a point that is short of the approach end threshold, and sometimes referring to the "50' obstacle".

Russ Francis was no neophyte, either. https://www.petaluma360.com/article/sports/former-49er-great-russ-francis-still-flying-high

How are you still paying for the Kingdome?

The Bing AI generator makes some pretty amusing stuff.

Another discussion that is actually an argument for flying AOA. <duck>

Randolph (and others) actually call the latter "bayonet temples". https://www.randolphusa.com/blogs/blog/bayonet-vs-skull-temples I fly with Oakley Straight Jackets and Half Jackets under Bose A20s and have no problem maintaining a good ear seal, even without the leather helmet.

This is actually the correct answer for the vast majority of "what airplane should I buy?" threads, regardless of what mission the posters think they're trying to buy an aircraft for.

I am amazed how little time, relatively, it has taken for society to take overnight (and other short timeframe) delivery of consumer goods for granted. Few people seem to remember the days of "6 to 8 weeks for delivery" for anything mail-ordered, and sometimes much longer. If people were to...

Agreed, I was more criticizing the entire line of "questioning" as part of an FIRC.

The perfect error-free flight has never been flown.

I have been using American Flyers FIRC since 2012, and just began my latest refresher this morning. I appreciate that the FIRC content changes constantly, but this time around rather than just multiple choice questions based on the material there is a large amount of free-text answer questions...

I say callsigns using grouped numbers at work all the time and have never heard anyone complain about that. "Indy Center, Air East thirty-one, level three four zero."

I've been trying to get to the bottom of the origin of the 80-knot check for about 10 years, and still don't have a definitive answer as to what or why. BUT.. "Patient Zero" in the 80-knot check was potentially a Lockheed test pilot, Jay Beasley. It still isn't clear how this propagated over...

It isn't about what point I'm trying to make -- it is about *yours*. I would like to know what from what experience perspective you are coming from that has formed your opinion about the relative (de)merit of landing on the taxiway at SNA, and it is completely relevant as to weather or not you...

That's not at all what I asked. Have you ever landed at SNA? How about ORD?