Recent content by wanttaja

"I never said that actors are cattle. What I said was, actors should be TREATED like cattle." - Alfred Hitchcock Ron Wanttaja

Thanks for the plug, but you are about 40 years too late.... :) Ron Wanttaja

My Continental doesn't have mixture control anymore, hence it gets shut down using the ignition. It does spin to a stop. Ron Wanttaja

My airport has a dummy coyote they set out in various locations to try repel the birds. And of COURSE it's the subject of numerous radio calls saying, "There's a dog by the runway!" Ron Wanttaja

Actually a massive trolling/moneymaking scheme. https://www.audubon.org/news/are-birds-actually-government-issued-drones-so-says-new-conspiracy-theory-making Ron Wanttaja

Got curious about the typical lifetimes of GA aircraft. Took my 1998-2021 Cessna 172 accident database and determined the percentage of accidents for a given total time. Same plot over a shorter total-time range: There are about 2500 172 accidents that reported aircraft total time. Twelve of...

Been flying single-seat airplanes almost exclusively for almost 40 years, and don't use "we." Might be because of a lack of poetry in my soul, might be because I consider the airplane something I wear rather than ride in. Richard Bach, in "Stranger to the Ground", doesn't use "we." Ron Wanttaja

Blame Lindbergh. Ron Wanttaja

Midwest for "diagonal." Ron Wanttaja

Duplicate thread. https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/icon-spirals-in.146811/#post-3506110 Ron Wanttaja

One starts, "Once upon a time," and the other, "No s***, there I wuz...." ANY novel has to be drastically condensed to fit into movie length. A guy did a script based on one of my published young-adult novels and it was sad to see how much was left out. Adam Savage (of Mythbusters), in his...

I've gone the Office Depot route, and have been pretty satisfied with the results. The cost wasn't major (~$15?) so you could give one a shot and assess it. They do have "photo quality" paper available for these large-format printers, though I don't know if the Office Depot-type locations have...

I don't see a 360 on the 45 being as much of an issue, because, technically, what you did was break off the pattern entry and come back to try it again. I wouldn't have any hesitation about doing that, as my airplane has excellent visibility. I might go out a bit further rather than make it a...

The story goes that the Naval Institute (who originally published the book) gave a draft to a retired submariner to get his take on it. It came back with big red "BS" on many of the pages.... There's a big advantage to writing books on subjects that you have never had security clearances...

The ROW was written in an era WITHOUT aircraft radios being common. What you say on the radio doesn't matter. Would the CAA have believed that a plane ten miles out was on "Final"? Don't think so. There's an unfortunate tendency for some people to think that announcing their actions on CTAF...