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    NA why do people bag leaves and throw them away?

    I used to set the mower blade up high, put the clippings bag on, and "mow" the leaves into the bag. Mowers are pretty good vacuums, and they chop the leaves up. Then dump.
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    Bucket list advice

    Thanks! I hadn't heard of Interstate - new one on me. I'd be looking for something with a metal wing/spar . .
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    Weird placement of car parts. Why?

    The military fighter designs of years past stuffed junk in any convenient (for the designer) location - "Removed to FOM" (facilitate other maintenance) was a routine entry in the forms. Somewhere around the F-15 coming into service they started giving some attention to sortie rates - and not...
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    Bucket list advice

    Thanks all - and the benign tail-dragger? I'd see getting the endorsement ahead of time, this winter, then getting some dual in the airplane at the sales location before heading back. . .
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    Cockpit space in Tomahawk, Skipper, & Yankee?

    I'm 6', 225. . .the 150 is awful for room and visibility. I've looked at a couple light sport - generally a little better, but still jammed. I have time in a Tomahawk and that was by far the best fit.
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    Bucket list advice

    I have an idea germinating - buying an airplane on the west coast and flying it back home to coastal NC. Preferable an inexpensive (by aviation standards) SEL aircraft. Once home I'll likely sell it - giving up on my intent to own my own - I'm in a club, and that'll have to do for now. I don't...
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    Operating in Class D without clearance

    Arrange a meeting with the tower chief - if a phone call isn't working; I bet he can give you a time that's mutually agreeable. Myself and a CFII friend got a pretty good accommodation with BWI (Baltimore) to fly into the inner harbor area - we gave them a radial and distance where we'd be and...
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    The end of Reno

    I remember Dulles (IAD) back in the day - it was, if I recall, at the end of a two-lane road (maybe two lanes in each direction?), a straight shot from the beltway to the airport, and there was almost nothing out there - desolate on the way, and nothing much around the airport. A high school...
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    Steam Gauges to G5

    The G5 is intuitive - the G1000 navigation was ghastly. Light lift to adapt.
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    Required income to afford single-engine aircraft ownership?

    My SWAG is about $15K per yezr in discretionary income, to finance and maintain a simple SEL 2-4 seater. Less if you pay cash, of course. Some years it won't take that much. Maybe half that for an experimental?
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    Pilot arrested for DUI blows .00

    I saw that a while back - my take is he was impaired, he knew it, and he delayed as much as possible. It doesn't have to be alcohol that causes the impairment. I understand that's why some departments ask for the acrobatic field sobriety tests before asking for the driver to blow - to show...
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    For Sale Not an aviation book - spy thriller by retired (me) CIA Officer.

    Sure! When I get my author copies I'll message you!
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    I can't make sense of this crash

    One of our club members hit a hawk at cruise in a 172. The wind screen "went away" as he told it. He said it took full power to maintain altitude - he was alone. We got a new headliner and glass from in insurance. Maybe one of the pilots in this mishap took a direct hit and the body jammed the...
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    Changes Since Your Initial Training (Get Off My Lawn edition)

    The obvious for guys from the early 70's? No headsets, no GPS'; some LORANS were around in GA, VOR was primary for navigation, some GA aircraft had RNAV based on "moving" VORs around. E6B during training. . .we did spin training, but that might have been a local thing with the USAF Aero CLub I...
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    Big beautiful airplane vid

    I saw an EC-121 in flight, but never a true airline Connie. It's almost sculpture. . .our C-130E models couls "torch" if fuel was puddled in the tail pipe of number 3, the first engine started. It was impressive, especially at night.
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    How to boost your currency/proficiency practice?

    Memorize the bold face and run through the "touches" called out in the procedures. I pretty much make most landings short field ones, for "that day". Maybe a no flap, occasionally. . .most of our 4-place SEL airplanes are pretty simple - the flying the airplane part isn't a challenge. The...
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    (NA) Admins? Can I do a promo post for a book here?

    Cool . . .the consistency of "enforcement" on the forum has waxed and waned over the years. . .
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    For Sale Not an aviation book - spy thriller by retired (me) CIA Officer.

    Thanks, I appreciate the thought - but it's not self-published, so that's kinda out of my hands - managed by the publisher. Amazon pre-orders are limited to Kindle. Hard copies available on the release date and after. I think I can buy some at cost, author's copies, after release - I'll ping you...
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    What do you consider life changing money

    Enough to buy a Marchetti SF-260 (net, after taxes, etc.) . . .somewhere around $350K. My retirement is taken care of, but the SF-260 would take too big a bite out of it. It is the "best" airplane I've ever flown - dream handling, effortless control, not at all squirrelly, but goes just where...
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