Back from Ground School. Sims are 3-4 week wait. Plane is in annual, but otherwise it's looking good. I'll wait until this weekend to worry about a room.
Today I started ground school at Piedmont. I'll get home Apr 12 and then wait for a sim training date. Some guys are waiting 2-3 weeks between ground and sims, so I'm a solid maybe for this trip.
Started with Commodore 128. Zilog Z80 and CPM. Next was 80286 I overclocked by soldering in a 8 MHz crystal oscillator. Played a lot of MS Flight Sim on that box.
IBM owns The Weather Channel which owns Weather Underground, Intellicast, and a bunch of others. Like most things that IBM buys they're adding a considerable amount of suck and taking out most of the awesome from those products.
I have a slightly damp basement. I run a humidifier down there all the time yet there is a slight damp odor. A friend suggested I get an ozone generator to cure the smell. I did. It worked. I got one way, way bigger than I needed. I ran it for one hour in my 1500 sq ft basement and now two...
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I'm gonna try and come, but I took a job flying for Piedmont. I'm sitting right now on a training delay and they project my class will start in late Feb, early March so it's pretty likley I'll be training while you guys are drinking bourbon and singing off-key without me.
New York state used to require that all new guns purchased and registered in the state have the spent casing sent to the state. The current liberal, socialist governor ended the practice after it was determined that no crimes had ever been solved by registering the spent casings and the process...
Tough to find parts. Kennedy is based in my home town and is actually still a going concern. I remember buying tool boxes from their scratch and dent store when I was a kid.
Here's what it looks like. This came out of an IO-360 in an M20J. That little knob is the exhaust valve rolled up into a tube. High RPM and low MP kept the motor running and we made it to the airport.