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    Hurricane track aircraft

    I have always wondered what owners of aircraft do with their airplanes that are in the path of an on-coming hurricane. Do you just take a chance and leave it or do you fly it out of the path?
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    FAA Letter received today

    Today, I received a letter from the FAA, Office of Aerospace Medicine in Washington, DC.:eek: :yikes: It is a request to fill out a survey about the medical certification process. They gave me a unique username and said that very few of these letters were sent out and that I'm a randomly...
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    July 4th

    Something that every pilot should do is to go take a general aviation night flight and see the fireworks from the air. The view of the fireworks coming up towards you is something not to forget.
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    Bad times for aircraft values???

    Just had a conversation with my long time mechanic. He told me that more people then ever before are looking to sell their aircraft. He said that this included private owners and corporate owners. He went on to say that it is much worse now then in 2008-09 during the beginning of the recession...
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    Pilot numbers

    As of today the number of pilots by license in the US. Student 94,816 Recreational 218 Sport 3,933 Private 204,788 Commercial 115,654 ATP 109,955 TOTAL 529,364 FYI
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    Do you remove the squatchee

    A squatchee is the fabric covered button on the top of a baseball hat. When I first started flying, I would get bad head pain in the center top of my head. With a headset over a baseball hat, the little button on the top of the hat would slowly dig a hole into my skull and ruin a good flight...
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    Have you had a ramp check??

    I have never had a ramp check and I do not know of anybody that as had one. The only time the FAA as approached me was about 20 years ago at the Lincoln airport. I parked in front of the FAA office building and 2 guys in suits approached me. They just wanted to look at the plane. They never...
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