Recent content by Warren Dunes

Shhh... Rover gets $20 a month to wear the neighbor's watch.

Someone will: Just wait for them to get back from QuikTrip with a suitcase of Old Milwaukee and six jumbo sized bags of Spicy Doritos.

"Normal," aka normative, is a theoretical construct. Like "efficient bureaucracy, honest academics, and competent governance," it exists only in our minds.

Did he fail to file a VFR Flight Plan? Not filing is a nearly 100% guarantee that something significant will go terribly wrong and a "talking head" will announce your moral failing to the cosmos...

I've never flown an Apache/Aztec with the big tanks, but in the Comanche, "outboard" fuel is essentially "free" (does not count against payload).

Also the lightest. IIRC red, yellow, and orange are the heaviest colors.

Why? Like many questions this one goes to history. The original Apache fuel system was two 36 gallon bladders, one per wing ouboard of the nacelles. Each engine had a mechanical pump, each sump had an electric pump. With the fuel selector you could send fuel from either bladder to either...

Well, they avoid conflicting traffic that is really there... as well as the planes they only think they see...

Your server may not even know, or have access to, or care to read the original packaging. Many items come from the wholesaler semi-to completely prepared. How many stories have been read where the "diet soda" unknowingly contained sugar, the hamburger "protein powder" (read: ground freeze dried...

A situation found in more than one area of FAA purview...

I think you people with your compass cards are some kind of deviated preverts. I think General Ripper found out about your acceptance of preversion, your blissful labeling of it as 'magnetic deviation,' and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts, so you killed him. -- Colonel...

So, in addition to flying it damaged... He illegally modified it into a different type? :D

I used to fly a 23-250 with a DeVore casket door. Man, that was a nice little short-distance freight hauler. Mostly groceries, so even with only one seat, we bulked out way before we grossed out.

BUT, Poor decision making can play a part in why a pilot would not have a license / medical. Years ago I read about someone who had 250 or so hours in an airplane he bought. But this guy never bothered to complete getting a private licence. Basically he thought he knew everything that he would...

Certified aviation, particularly in the US, Canada, and other countries that give a **** is a pretty well figured out and fairly safe endeavor. I have no data to back up this hunch but deconstructing your statement... unairworthy airplanes* -- this problem seems self-explanatory. substance...