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    Student Starts & Pilot Retention

    i'll have to stop by just because I love the name Amelia, that's my daughters name :)
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    Student Starts & Pilot Retention

    I dunno.. we're swimming in cash today.. more than i've ever seen. Some areas are suffering, i won't doubt that.. but more often then not, people own huge houses, multiple cars, multiple smart phones, multiple ipads, multiple computers, atvs, motorcycles and tons of other crap. There is simply...
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    Henning

    Whittier! I drove through the train tunnel to get there once and when i got in to town the first thing i heard was "Welcome to Whittier where the weather is always Sh***ier" They weren't lying, just going through the mountain into Whittier it started snowing on us.. and that was June 1st in...
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    A little let down today.. Kittie Hill airport definitely gone.

    Got your PM, i'll try and catchup with you here soon. I've got a busy weekend helping out my daughters camp so i'll be in and out. To answer your question though, with the prevailing windos being 170-190, i'd say any plot of land that is mostly north/south for a runway would be best. With the...
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    GA Safety

    Is the cost of GA hurting its safety? shortcuts, currency, maintenance so on and so forth? The rental i fly in, i spend a lot of time screwing around with a bad mic plug and busted vents, its hotter than doodoo in texas and i fly in controlled airspace so both things distract me from flying...
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    A little let down today.. Kittie Hill airport definitely gone.

    I'm in touch with a couple of the soaring clubs, asking about details in their apparent success/affordability. Starting to research other property hopefully within an hours drive of Austin - looking around 183 as much as possible. Ryan, is there an area that would make the most sense for...
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    Tesla

    Where do people make this stuff up from? Every generation claims to have it worse than the prior, yet, if you look at the data - The notion of it getting worse is entirely false and contrived. People need to stop watching news and start living..
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    A little let down today.. Kittie Hill airport definitely gone.

    I believe everything in/around liberty hill is private. Lakeway is pretty nice, over by the lake and has some great fuel prices, but not much room to grow, i'm not sure they can add any hangers/tied downs. Same goes for Georgetown, the airport is maxed out and prices are astronomical for...
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    A little let down today.. Kittie Hill airport definitely gone.

    Seems not many cities are friendly to aviation anymore.. I'm seriously looking at some other land to do a grass strip and maybe a club to help maintain it. The glider fields in Texas are doing something right, i may try and copy some of their successes.
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    SR-22 down in Virginia

    Sounds like a perfect CAPS deployment then! Glad all are alright. BTW, i have nothing against CAPS, in fact its a pretty big consideration in my purchase plans. I was just silently hoping it wasn't a running out of gas scenario.
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    A little let down today.. Kittie Hill airport definitely gone.

    I wish it could be a residential air park. We have the nice one just down the road at Brushy creek - Breakaway, but they want you to build mcmansions and the going rate for house there is 650k+.. its no wonder the owner to pilot ratio isn't that strong. Is there such thing as an airpark with...
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    Tell Me About Radio Controlled (RC) Airplanes

    I started flying when i was about 11, built this glider and flew it for a few years before i ate a fence with it. May pick it up again.. This was down in Corpus Christi and with the club that flew out of the abandoned naval bases. When the wind was too nuts for me to handle we stopped flying...
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    Tesla

    i could afford the payments on one of these, but the insurance for being near Austin is probably more than the loan.. anyone have one in Texas and care to share how much insurance hurts their wallet?
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    Icon A5

    would be nice if others could get the weight increase. I forgot, but do the BRS chute systems count against the overall wait or is there some way that safety features can get an exception?
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    A little let down today.. Kittie Hill airport definitely gone.

    So there is this grass strip called "Kittie Hill" just 10 minutes north of my house that I've been following for a while. It has 40+ hangers and had 80+ aircraft there at one point, but its end is near. The owner, is selling and it looks like the buyers have a contract to settle on Q4 2013 and...
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