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Would love either the taildragger or tricycle gear. There are a number of RV owners here at my home base in Maryland; maybe I can convince one of 'em to save some money by adding a partner...

A shame, for sure! That must be a beautiful area to fly in. In fact, my wife and daughter are going to Salisbury today to check out the university.

@Tantalum -- I've strongly considered older Mooneys as well. They're supposed to be great IFR platforms, too. I'm worried about the upkeep/maintenance on those, as well as the insurance. I've heard it's a lot more for retracts. Is that your experience?

I went to look at a Piper Warrior II last week. If you’re going to fly a lot — the tipping point seems to be about 100 hours per year — it makes more financial sense to buy a plane rather than continue to rent. There was a group at my local airport looking for a partner in their 1979 Warrior...

@Unit74 -- You are certainly welcome to do that. In that case, am I similarly allowed to judge your motives for doing things without knowing you? Seems fair. I think I'll sign off now, as I had no intentions of igniting this little fire. I didn't mean to offend anyone, and was only trying to...

It was more of an overall tax strategy: what you need to do to legitimately claim flying deductions so the IRS doesn't come after you when you buy a plane and fly the plane. I'm a little gun shy to say more at this point, given the response here today, and that the blog wasn't about "How To...

That's a totally fair point. The idea was that it would be boring tax-related stuff, and it wasn't an exhaustive blog. If I was truly going the clickbait angle, though, wouldn't it have made more sense to then go into the explanation on the full blog? Note that I'm not accusing you of saying I'm...

Interesting take on things. It was a short blog about good tax news that allows me to fly more. I said nothing at all about any "IRS tricks." I was basically happy that I didn't owe the government, which would allow me to fly more. I make no money on my website. I don't have ads. I'm not...

I truly do not get this. I posted a link to an article earlier. I was told "This is clickbait! You should post the entire article here!" So, I post the entire article here. Then I get told "This is clickbait! What are you doing, posting the same article here?" I did both to give folks options...

Some interesting thoughts here on this terrible tragedy.

(Full post here) So I went to do my 2018 taxes yesterday. It is the very opposite of the Christmas song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." I hate all things to do with money -- especially paying it to the government. After all, you need money to fly. Lots of money. Aviation is mostly...

Thanks, @GeorgeC! By local, do you mean KDMW local, or just "in the area"?

No Van's models listed. Sigh...

Dana, yeah, that's an excellent point. There is a line that can be crossed, and companies need to know when they're driving people away. I used to *hate* the pop-ups on one of my old sites that happened every single time someone visited. We called them "interstitials". It's a name that still...

The reality is that all those ads and all that annoying junk is what allows the content to be created, however. Nobody likes it -- especially the writers and editors who create the content. But without it, that content wouldn't exist. (I was a newspaper and magazine journalist for many years...

I wish more pilots would do that. I hope *I'm* humble and honest enough to do that when the time comes.

#TruthWinsOut

I have it, and do listen. Thanks for the reminder, too. I actually meant to include it in the original post.

Maybe the golf cart was getting low on fuel...

(From my website. The full article is here.) As you can read about here and here, I'm going back to flight school as I re-transition back into the cockpit. My session yesterday in my Sportys ground school course was how to talk to the control tower. Control towers aren't found at every...