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Original Star Trek had an episode where the computers decided who “died” in each battle. If chosen, you would enter a chamber and be eliminated. The opposing countries thought this was more civilized than using actual weapons. Spoiler-Spock and Kirk destroyed the computer so they would no...

Definitely use the largest sheet you’ve got or the fat drips over the edge, setting the oven on fire. I learned this cooking one of those two pack wright bacon from Sam’s Fortunately I checked before the fire started

Someone please tell me why the moon is bigger in some pictures than others. Is it based on quality of the filters? I don’t think the difference between ground and 5,000 feet in the air would matter much Someone sent me a video where the moon was basically a dot blocking half the sun (like a...

Just fly upside down!

Pass your instrument check ride is an audio book ($5 iirc) with hours of typical questions and answers. Good luck retaining anything you don’t already know at 2x though

At 6’5” it’s likely that your knees block the yoke (fully extended) and your feet block the rudder pedals. I recently flew in a 172 with no shoes so my feet were under and out of the way. Pushing the seat all the way back to get legs/knees out of the way means that the seat isn’t locked in...

Doesn’t the airport also have requirements? They require that you have xyz on your plane but joe pilot may not have that coverage when borrowing your hangar Right?

I have a stack of these awful books (IFR for me) and progress has stopped on all of them somewhere in the first few chapters. For a pretest my friendly cfi asked open ended questions. Yikes, it’s like going back to college 40 years later. Labor of love is the only answer for me. Otherwise...

Is it the same part number for 1966? Mine seemed to be longer tia

Yes I flew with a test pilot a few times in my plane and it was certainly eye opening

AOPA has a podcast called ask the a and p or something. Anyway, it’s Mike bush and two others with a format similar to the old car talk on npr This topic came up in the last month or two so it might be worth a listen. Documenting past work, taking the exams, etc. Fwiw

To be fair, they added new characters all the time since so many died or became pows I think that’s one reason why the show seems disjointed. Might have been wise to delve deeper into many fewer characters. The lady spy character arc was ridiculous too. I say watch it since there’s little...

Full flap extension: what am I missing?

Why does the airport care if I’m in a friends hangar? He’s insured, it’s insured, I’m insured the annual is up to date etc. Are they concerned about personal property taxes for state or county or something?

Passed your medical? There are many threads on this topic which describe what and how (and why) to go about it