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I did it again today. Actually I do it every time I fly, although I was more conscious of it than usual today. I was solo and referred to myself as "we" when speaking to ATC. I don't understand how I started doing it. Maybe it's primacy from learning the lingo while sitting next to an...

Studying to take the commercial written. I used Gold Seal for my Private and Instrument ground school and really liked it, but they don't have a commercial course. I decided that I wasn't really a pilot having not taken a King course, so I went with them. Not that impressed; it's very much...

I offered a local sightseeing flight as an auction item for trivia night at our kid's school. It brought $550 which was a pleasant surprise. Anyway, I envisioned this as being a 91.146 flight, and I put in all the limitations such as 25nm and landing at the same airport as departure. I meet...

Courtesy of Avweb: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mark-baker-stepping-down-as-aopa-president/ TLDR: Baker to leave within 2 years after board finds replacement. Sounds like he's just ready to retire. Don't have a lot of opinion. I haven't been around long enough to have experienced "the...

We moved a bit under a year ago. Since then my Verizon cell phone has barely worked in my house, which is odd considering I live right along the interstate. The only thing I can figure is that my steel buildings are between the house and their tower. I've also tried T-Mobile here without...

A week ago, suffering from continuation bias and getthereitis, I blundered into an area of fast moving storm cells that I had no business being in. I was IFR, and an approach controller probably saved our lives by giving me what I needed when I needed it, convincing me to break off an ILS that...

Rental cars are a big part of the experience when travelling GA. When I first started flying pre-covid, they were easy, cheap, and awesome. These days they are the hardest part of planning a trip. I wanted a place to collate my experiences and questions. What pushed me over the edge was our...

So one of our local billionaires built a CBP facility at CMI last year so he could fly in direct from Europe on his Global. It just occurred to me today that I could fly direct from Canada, right? Supposedly it's actually staffed during normal business hours, which seems a little hard to...

This message in the carb ice thread jogged my memory about a question I had regarding carb heat on the cessna 172M I occasionally fly. I pull in carb heat whenever I'm below the green arc, as that's what the "owner's manual" tells me to do. Academically I understand this also makes the mixture...

My new wing tips came with halogen PAR 36 bulbs, which I replaced with LED's, leaving me with a pair of brand new unused PAR-36 bulbs. I can't bring myself to just toss them, so if anybody could use them, let me know. Don't think it'd be worth shipping them. Maybe a rough river meetup or...

I've got a working trip to New Orleans in January. We are being provided a hotel on Canal St., which we can extend beyond the actual meeting I'm there for. We've never been, and need to know what the "can't miss" items are. Nat'l WWII museum is on my list. I suppose Bourbon street. Anything...

This popped up on my FB feed this morning. A pair of Stearmans buzz a cotton harvester and one of them hits it. ASN article below has links to two videos from different angles, both on FB. Word is the pilot's wife was riding in the picker and the pass was expected, hence the clear videos. The...

My oldest kid will be taking driver's ed this year. I always figured I'd buy a project car and have her help fix it, but life is way too busy right now and she has zero interest in cars. We rented a Malibu in Texas, and she thought that was great. That or a Tesla she says :rolleyes: Anyway I'm...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but apparently all the episodes of "The Red Green Show" are available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedGreenTV Now if you'll excuse me I have 150 hours of TV to watch. Keep your stick on the ice.

Chrome refused to connect to POA this evening on multiple devices. I was getting withdrawal shakes, so I texted NealRG and he said it was working fine. I started to try to diagnose the issue and it suddenly started working again. Just me?

Calling all POAers in attendance at OSH this year....we need to take a picture with the new brick. I'm going to suggest Wednesday at 2:30 PM to try and catch as many folks as possible. Those who can't be there post a selfie there and I'll see if I can crudely photoshop you in :biggrin: Thoughts?

My aviation dreams tend to shift depending on what I'm doing that day. Some days I'm convinced the Lance will satisfy me indefinitely, some days I'm ready to move up to a Seneca, and some days I'm pinching pennies with dreams of owning a kerosene burner of some kind. So I did a young eagles...

While the forum is down for the upgrade? @eman1200 will be doing hookers and blow, but my wife doesn't let me have hookers and I left my blow at the White House.

Dan Millican reported this on YouTube over the weekend, but I couldn't find any other news about it; looks like he's correct: https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-airport-worker-killed-after-being-ingested-into-jet-engine I don't ever remember hearing about one of these before the one a few...

I learned of "The History Guy" on YT here, so I know many already follow him, but in case you don't he posted a video today about airport codes that I found interesting and informative. I knew ORD stood for "Orchard", but he includes a lot of interesting history about that story I didn't know...