Recent content by jollyroger

Thanks everyone for the pointers and experience. It's pretty disappointing that the ride part is looking so bad. I was hoping to use the young eagles rally because they already have the pilot population for the monthly event and being a national program would instill some confidence in the...

Hoping to see if anyone has ever successfully tried to organize something like this. My oldest is in the 5th grade and is really into aviation. There seems to be some interest in his friends when he tells them he goes flying so I had the quick thought that we should organize a school field trip...

That's funny, I'm the opposite. I'd question my mental capacity without having my morning coffee :yes: However not while flying and I must drink coffee at least 1/2 hour before depature to make sure a trip to the head has been accomplished :)

Well according to a study a while ago it was found that pilots using Glass were not any safer than steam gauge pilots. Unfortunately the right answer is "it depends" and a lot of it depends on your personality. Just like in Unix emacs vs vi some like the complexity and "knowing the failure...

Petaluma O69 has a pretty good burger joint, if you go as far as Watsonville WVI (My Home airport :) ) theres a relatively new restaurant named props that I've heard is good.

http://news.msn.com/world/passenger-gives-birth-on-plane-names-baby-after-flight-attendant Sooooo what's the nationality? If the mother is Russian I'm sure the baby will have that via jus sanguinis, but I bet that wont stop us from digging up arcane rules and traditions to find out the baby...

lol with friends like that .... (you know the rest)

Those were the stuff of legend, why do you think they are offering it now? :hairraise::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Did my first night bay tour recently, these are the best shots. I will say this Angel Island is "DARK" at night: SFO Golden Gate looking south Alcatraz and the financial district Financial district close up

To put this simply light travels in effect without a medium unlike sound which needs gas, liquid or a solid. So a reference for the speed of light doesn't matter. If you have the truck with point A and B and the truck is moving very fast, say half the speed of light going left to right then...

The kids have been getting into model railroading and I have to admit that I'm getting pulled in a little too. Funny that the kids grew up with aviation so it's not big deal to them.

My comment was in jest and assuming little injury :nonod:

That's only assuming you trust your passengers to divulge accurate information in the first place! :lol: I wonder if the NTSB will start weighing people :confused:

Well after all that, the freq was so busy it turned out to be easier to launch, wait for the freq to die down a little and then make my request. Oh well it still worked out. Man, San Franciso is beautiful at night! :yes:

Re: hi wing meets SUV Boy that's a pretty bad design, however looking at the displaced threshold I don't think he was high enough to reach it properly. But mostly this is just a bad design. Planes flying slow for an approach have limited visibility over the nose.