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  1. SkyChaser

    Finally restarted my flying lessons.

    @Crashnburn , has your instructor taught you slips? That sounds like a perfect place for a slip, and it solves your altitude problem beautifully.
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    Checkrides cost how much? Really?

    How is the FAA utilizing their experience in jets to test private pilots in single engine spam cans and why should having a rating for a totally different type of plane command higher prices?
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    Checkrides cost how much? Really?

    If you want to know, it's all upthread somewhere. I'm not going to rewrite it. Yes, it's a skilled position. I think they deserve to be paid. But being a DPE doesn't require you to have a jet rating or even a day job, so what they get paid to fly jets is rather immaterial to the discussion. It's...
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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    No one tracks hours spent studying, as far as I know. I studied over the whole year before I started lessons by reading the PHAK and AFM and taking notes every day for 30 minutes while I ate my lunch at work, and sometimes doing some reading in the evening. About a month before starting lessons...
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    Checkrides cost how much? Really?

    If the engineer is hired as a front desk receptionist, I don't think they should pay him any more than they would any other front desk receptionist...because he's not being hired for his engineering prowess, but for his phone-answering skills. I didn't hire the DPE for my checkride to show me...
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    Southern Living: Bug Proofing a Home

    Mosquitoes somehow survive. But it does take care of a LOT of the nastier spiders/snakes and ant types.
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    Southern Living: Bug Proofing a Home

    If I see a bug that big in my house, I'm shooting it. With a .45. And then a shutgun.
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    Cessna down after stalling on take off

    I think the OP was describing a crash with just three people, so probably not.
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    Wealth Distribution in America

    I don't know what was considered poor in the years past, so I can't really compare to what is considered poor today and I still have a very distorted view of who is poor. I discovered when I took a post-secondary economics class in tenth grade that technically, my family had been under the...
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    Southern Living: Bug Proofing a Home

    The spray I have is for spiders and ants and millipedes. And supposed to deter scorpions as well. I have a cat for the roaches. :cool: Though we haven't had any in our new place yet!
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    Wealth Distribution in America

    I was going to write 3-5, but then I figured I should exaggerate to the greatest possibility so no one could complain that I had made things out as worse than they were... :tongue:
  12. SkyChaser

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

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    Wealth Distribution in America

    Middle class lifestyle has skyrocketed and so the expense required to maintain it is greater. What other evidence do you want? A average middle class family of 4 in the 60s often had a house with two or three bedrooms and one bathroom, one car, one tv with maybe 15 or 20 channels, one landline...
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    Southern Living: Bug Proofing a Home

    I can sympathize with the heebee-jeebees from the creepy-crawlies and the "heat exhaustion". Moving here from Minnesota was definitely an adjustment for me, and you have to come to terms with the fact that you will see many more bugs, and big ones, in a month than you probably ever have in your...
  15. SkyChaser

    What's For Dinner?

    We had stuffed bell peppers and baked potatoes with apple pie for dessert, it being Pi Day and all...
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    Possible slip up

    https://www.med.unc.edu/ibs/wp-content/uploads/sites/450/2017/10/IBS-and-Antidepressants.pdf <--That was an interesting and slightly scary read. I was about to call bs on that, too, but then I googled "tofranil for gi issues"...and there were a LOT of hits from medical sources about how they...
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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

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    Wealth Distribution in America

    The immediate consequences I've noticed are more consequences of a societal shift towards a luxury lifestyle regardless of whether or not you can afford it, and have little to do with the consequences of shifting wealth. Things like cars where every new car is packed to the gills with the newest...
  20. SkyChaser

    Joe_B1 Gone West

    I enjoyed his contributions. :( Blue skies and tailwinds.
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