Recent content by Jim_R

Okay, I guess that's nifty. But if the OP is staring at that info while flying the pattern instead of...well, flying the pattern, then perhaps that's part of his problem. Like you, I just point my airplane where it needs to be pointed so that it goes where I want it to go. If I'm 20 deg...

What do you have that's constantly measuring your winds?? What about winds aloft bothers you during night flight that doesn't apply during daytime flying?

Yes, there is some of that. But I really don't think you could relax the regulations enough to lower that financial barrier to new entries to the market, without seeing impacts to safety that would cause those new entries to quickly exit the market due to liabilities incurred via wrongful death...

No, it isn't. There are other places in the world with different economies and laws and there are jillions of new cars to choose from in those places. There is no place in the world that has a market where "affordable" new planes are available, because there isn't the demand to create that...

Too many of the planes that were affordable to the upper middle class and professionals from 1950-1985 are still available, and still priced where they are affordable to upper middle class and professionals. If that available fleet of aircraft wasn't meeting demand, they'd be selling for much...

Don't be ageist. 80 year-olds can still do quality control!

Reply hazy. Ask again later.

I got ChatGPT to write a bot that uses ChatGPT to write all my posts for me. Works well enough that I don't even visit PoA anymore.

My '73 PA28-180 has overhead vents (fed by a vent in the vertical stabilizer) and floor vents (fed by vents in the wings). On the ground I use a Kool Scoop in the side window. In terms of air movement, those have served me well. The only thing I've ever wished for is cooler air on hot days--I...

Not really sure why a new FB group is needed. Adventure Pilot already runs an iFlyEFB Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/adventurepilot/ The iFly message forum transitioned from an older, no-longer-supported platform to Xenforo (same forum software as PoA) almost exactly one year...

Yes, in part. This is the most egregious problem. Yes! The point is that the depicted blind spots are ridiculous, especially for the top plane. At least the pilot is on the correct side of the wing for the lower plane and it's just the angles of the blind spot shadow that are wrong. Had the...

In a first for POA, every answer above is correct!

I don't actually have a clue what that movie is. Sounds like I probably missed a joke!

I'm pretty sure The Hunt for Red October was not intended to be a realistic documentary about submarines.