Recent content by Skip Miller

If you taxied faster than a brisk walk you'd leave your wing-walkers Steering Gear and Brakes behind. Those wing walkers were not just out for a constitutional. They had a purpose.

The link doesn"t go anywhere for me....

Contact the school’s Chief Pilot and tell them you are seeing lots of bird activity in and around the hangar, and ask him politely to tell his CFIs to train the students that proper protocol is to shut the doors after moving a plane in and out of the hangars. I.e., start nice. Then you keep a...

Doesn’t work in PA28’s.

I used to reply “nobody in the pattern except us NORDOs!” -Skip

Also helps the tick population. The state adjacent to us is the home of Lyme disease -Skip

Also helps the tick population. The state adjacent to us is the home of Lyme disease -Skip

More likely he stepped back to look at it, spit on the ground, and hollered: “That looks about right! Hop in, let’s go!” -Skip

I had the RSV shot months ago, as an overweight adult male age 77 at the time. I had a reaction - just a slightly sore arm - for a day or so. So as a statistical insignificant n=1, I see no downside to getting the shot. Same with Covid shots as they became available. What “Covid debacle” are...

Youngsters! When I grew up, there was no such thing as Cable TV. We had three channels with decent reception: ABC, CBS, and NBC. No color TV, either, until I was about 12. It was not that we couldn't afford it... it didn't exist yet! Oh the horror of the 1950s! -Skip

Not since Hurricane Ian inundated and flattened large parts of Fort Myers Beach last year. My brother and his wife lost their home, its contents, and one of their cars. -Skip

Greg, I have Hydrocephalus. It was discovered when a sinus X-ray, maybe MRI, showed a section of my brain not intended to be imaged. I called my uncle (a very prominent neurosurgeon at U Washington) and he referred me to one of his students. The result was that they measured the brain with...

Check out the Westchester Flying Club, based at Westchester County Airport (KHPN). Yes it is in New York State, but it is on the state border with New York State, so very close if you are in southwest Connecticut. www.wfc-hpn.org they own Archers, Arrows, Bonanzas, Cirrus. -Skip Miller, a...

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