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First off the son you beat (presumably, as you just admitted to ‘smacking’ your grandson) engaged in ‘fights and obscenities ‘ with his wife who is otherwise a ‘wonderful woman’? Sounds like the apple did not fall far from the tree. Yes, parents need to supervise their children. Watching the...

The Economist refers to itself as a newspaper even though it is published weekly and most of us would call it a newsmagazine. It is not cheap, a year subscription is around $200. But hands down it beats any other source out there. It takes a good 8 hours a week to read it, but if you do you will...

Back in the good old days wives would ocassionally call the boat on the infrequent times we were in port. Stock answer: He just left with his wife. Cured them of calling pretty quick.

Wow what a useful description! Thank you for posting this.

My brother and I took a trip to Vietnam and I swear he appears in more pics taken by Vietnamese tourists than he took—I mean people approached him constantly. No one ever approached me.He says it’s because I always appear ****ed off. I consider this a gift.

Honestly never occurred to me to tell her when I am flying! As I think about it I do get these texts “where are you” so it does not seem like a bad idea. I have to be careful though about changing, true story: she had been “sad” at me for not listening, honestly part of the 60 cycle hum that I...

I have a son who has schizophrenia so I am always alert for stories of suicide as I have read that 10% of schizophrenics die from it. Would like to say it wouldn't happen to him but then people would have said that about Anthony wouldn't they? Medical care in our country is abysmal, we spend...

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Out of curiosity what does the transponder check entail? If ATC recognizes you at the right altitude and position is that a check? Asking for a friend.

the A380's flown by United Emirates have 12 cameras mounted all over the plane that you can call up on your seat screen,not the greatest resolution but pretty fun to watch the nosewheel and tail cameras on takeoff & landing.

It must be us pilots who love looking out the window I always do, a lot of the times boring. But every now and then...

Gave up FB after the last scandal, didn’t have a problem about violating my privacy but I had a huge problem with their involvement with a company that teamed up with Russia to subvert our elections. Do not miss it at all. In fact it was a huge time-waster. So had to find another spot to waste...

This approach works for me, last year I spent $9100 for hangar, annual, maintenance, insurance, gas, oil and flew 150 hours. Out to the midwest. Twice.

This was a very useful post! I currently have two openings I am hiring for and intend to use your criteria to scrub the recs. I hope I did not make any if these errors but...

Reading this thread I was thinking I really don’t have any pet peeves. Then I realized I am one of of those people that other people have pet peeves about.

What a truly inspiring story. Thank you for posting this.

This works, used to have to jump my plane from my car when it was tied down in the winter. But once I got the engine running I would never disconnect the car while the prop was spinning, instead would run the plane till it was hot, shut down, disconnect, then start up again.

Cockatoo Island in the harbor was interesting to me, it was a shipyard for since forever, before that it was a prison Now you can walk through these vast buildings where they used to refit ships. In fact you can buy a hop on hop of ferry ticket that takes you to a lot of cool places in the...

800 nm is 3 three hour hops, which is about max I would wantto do in a day. In the summertine try get the first two hops done before 1, have a nice lunch and siesta,then launch at 4 to avoid the worst of the turbulence. Invest in one of the inexpensive ADSB-in recievers so you can see what is...

Excellent point I was going to make this point and happy to see you have. Their Monarch is not simply a celebrity, he or she is a hereditary head of state. I think Americans have more of an issue with the “hereditary “ part.