Recent content by TommyG

You’re still young. Live life, sample some girls from around the world, enjoy the craziness of being single for a while. You have plenty of time to find a girl, get married and do the dad stuff. You don’t want to be 50 wishing you had more fun in life when other guys are sharing their stories...

Yes it’s visible, but also when I tell a student to switch the tank, I actually watch them do it. Kind of like telling them to change frequencies, you can’t just assume they did it without looking.

Why do you hate it? Why are you doing it? Those are the two questions that matter.

My good friend is a manager at a big FBO. Waiting list for a T hangar is long. But so many planes are unused, barely used, or just rotting away. But the owners pay their rent, and keep up on their Insurance so they sit where they are. He would rather get people in there that will pay their bills...

It’s a sad world we have now, where people are worried about bye r stalking by following the life of a former airplane they owned.

I have run numerous planes through Vref. I never saw one estimate close to what the market was calling for.

1970N, non opening window.

Me and my partner have been doing $65/hr since we bought our 1970 182 about 5 years ago. Only used that fund for bid ticket items. A cylinder a couple years ago, and now we are sending the engine for overhaul. We have more than half the money we are gonna need for engine overhaul, prop and gov...

Have used the lithium battery jump packs. $120 on Amazon. 182 battery is right behind the baggage panel. Hooked up directly to the battery terminals. I started the the plane, buddy who is an A&P disconnected the pack, shut the baggage door, and I was on my way. It was a 5 year old battery that...

Anyone dealt with Aerotec for engine work? Got a good quote from them and decent turn around time. So looking for honest reviews.

Go back and start reading the ACS, PHAK, FAR\AIM that covers everything from day one through now. I have seen a lot of CFIs that manage to get a pass and don’t know squat about a lot. This happens because they had lousy instructors, usually from the pilot mills that teach the bare minimum to...

It’s not so much the driving record for it to show up, it will be your criminal history it will show up.

I would mention it to his instructor and let them handle it for now.

I work for the Gov, I make some decent 6 figures. A secured pension on top of my TSP(401K), and I get to carry a gun. A lot of people get so fixed on the airline. There are Gov pilot jobs out there that make real god money and never have to worry about layoffs and get a pension. DEA, FBI, CBP,

Back late 90s early 2000s the regionals wanted 250 multi, paid about $15k a year. And they had this great concept of pay for training. You get hired, pay $15k for the training, and if you fail out, which back then people actually failed out for what is deemed passable today. You’re still out the...