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    Greetings from another "Rusty Pilot" knocking off the oxides...

    Saddletramp - Yeah agree - am not a fan of excessive local, state, or Federal bureaucracies and regulations. Would be nice if the FAA along with all Federal agencies backed off a bit... I'd like to see more folks in GA but the resulting costs/compliance mandates are substantial, and a struggle...
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    Brad Z - Yeah got the Android dialed into some EFB/Planning apps along with a Stratux receiver feed. Also have the Apple stuff - use it reluctantly but chafe on the ever-present inter-product integration (err.. user restrictions). I'll admit to both IT degrees and an Info Ops/Denial background...
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    Thanks. The E-2 shows no signs of fading away, they have a cool multi-blade props on it now. LoL re. your NATOPS Manual quote. In the day, we called it the "Big Blue Sleeping Pill" - still smaller than the USAF flight volumes...
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    Greetings from another "Rusty Pilot" knocking off the oxides...

    Yes a newbie to PoA but not to Aviation.
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    Rushie - LoL I'm not so much into sea stories - having suffered as a recipient of many myself. ;) Chasing the Russian subs was work, fun and challenging, sort of like strategic 3-D air & water based Chess. Despicable spies like Walker, and corporate low-lifes like Toshiba selling critical...
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    Don't know. Boeing makes nice aircraft. Lockheed's P-3 Orion/L-188 Electra is a tough, but not so pretty aircraft, it was a real work horse along with the NOAA hurricane hunter roles. ...A classic along with the F-4, C-130, F-14, F-105 Thunderchief, SR-71 and so many many others...
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    Thank you. Yes - it's sad so many pilots were distracted from flying by family and non-flying career events. AOPA is trying real hard to get the numbers back up by encouraging "rusty pilots" both male and female to get back into the the cockpit. The current PPL costs for the young folks w/o...
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    Agree the tech is nice and convenient, just hope the batteries and bandwidth is there when you really need it. I've worked in info denial for decades, following the sub days. It's amusing to see folks "implode" when the local power grid goes down, and they have no way to charge their smart...
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    AKBill - Thanks for your efforts to keep the venerable birds flying. Yes the harsh saying in Navy circles re. the P-8A Poseidon relative to the P-3 Orion is --- "Twice the aircraft, Half the capability." There is a real reason turboprops were used - the technology fit the mission profile well...
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    Greetings from another "Rusty Pilot" knocking off the oxides... Today there are about 10x-20x more control towers than when I first started flying... Highly-controlled airspace is everywhere, and Electronic Flight Bags are all-the-rage, enabled by digital media, bandwidth, (and powered by...
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    Greetings from another "Rusty Pilot" knocking off the oxides...

    Hello to all on the PoA Forums. Today there are about 10x more control towers than when I first started flying... Highly-controlled airspace is everywhere, and Electronic Flight Bags are all-the-rage, enabled by digital media, bandwidth, (and powered by hopefully non-exploding lithium...
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