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My grandfather, by his own account, pranged maybe five aircraft to total destruction (and I have his own photos to prove it :-))… but that was in the First World War, he was flying with the Royal Flying Corp (RFC), and that sort of thing seems to have been expected (but not necessarily more...

Maybe not quite to your taste, but here's my photographic take on the bits of Route 66 through the Mojave desert in California between about Barstow and the Arizona border — there's lots to see there, including the original Bagdad Cafe (if you're into 1980's Indie European films), Amboy Crater...

As I pointed out upthread, it was also common and respected usage in the mid-late twentieth century, at least in the English-literate places I grew up and was educated in. I don't know why people find this so hard to understand or believe…

I've said this before, but I'm an old dinosaur from the heartlands of the English linguistic empire, born into the sort of accent most Americans would think of as rather Proper, and millions of years ago I was taught — in the sort of school that would never have stooped to calling itself...

Nah, it's just easier remembering that in Region A (i.e. the rest of the world) you keep the vessel's red light on the same side as the channel's red lights or red buoys or markers when heading for port… That was so ingrained in me for my first thirty years it was a bit of a shock discovering...

Unless of course you're in that large majority of the world (Region A) where it's the other way around. If I remember correctly it's only the Americas and sundry other places (all in Region B) that your rule will work. After decades of sailing in both Australia and Britain, it was difficult at...

The original ForeFlight (of which I was an early adopter) was an in-browser app (as were all iPhone apps back then) and had very limited capabilities. If you really want to go back to the original ForeFlight, be my guest :-). For a reminder of just how far things like ForeFlight have come, read...

Indeed not. Long after Flying Wild Alaska she used to host a program called Native Shorts with Bird Runningwater on NFX (in this part of the world, at least), introducing and showing First Nations and Native American short films and videos. Not exactly the high-profile stuff you'd get from just...

True enough, but a friend of my father had an Amphicar (a couple, actually, over time) in the late 1960's and early 1970's and put it to good use for his pharmacy business in the part of Australia I grew up in, which wasn't well served by niceties like bridges at the time, and where having the...

Right :)

Alaska's actually quite small compared to the largest state of the country I'm from… :-) (And Texas isn't even as large as my home state, a middling state by my background).

I guess I never quite get this reaction, especially having grown up speaking English rather differently to the average American. Back when I was a kid playing cricket, for instance, we'd use "near miss" and "close miss" interchangeably when talking about bowling, with the obvious meaning of the...

The link's working fine for me…

Yeah, things like that stopped me going mirrorless until Nikon's second version of the Z7, the Z7 II, came along — it's much better at things like coverage, lag, etc., and eyestrain doesn't seem to be a factor any more when I use it. It's probably not quite there yet for what it sounds like you...

You'd have to do Roy's in Amboy, California (as someone up-thread says): https://generalaviationnews.com/2022/03/09/get-your-kicks-on-route-66/. It's a Route 66 classic, but the strip has no identifier any more; unfortunately, I've only ever seen the place from the ground (many times over the...

As a minor tangential point, Google claims that it no longer scans the bodies of emails in gmail for ad serving purposes — it now uses your more general online behavior instead. See e.g. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10434152?hl=en Not that that answers the original question, but hey...

You could, but I seem to lose 20% of my IQ under the hood or in IMC and would probably botch a calculation like this on the fly (as it were), so I'd probably just use the TFD 046 radial as-is — what's 1.5NM in a context like this?!

Timing? If you're doing 120 knots, and the wind isn't significant, you can safely give yourself (say) four minutes in any direction from SNOWL, five if you push it. It's not exact, but it doesn't need to be exactly exact. Alternatively, you could use TFD R-046 as a distance marker (exercise left...

When I flew in Australia, altitudes were in feet based on metric pressures, distances in a mixture of metres (runway lengths), kms, and nautical miles, airspeeds in knots, fuel capacity in litres, passenger weights in kg, etc., etc. (often depending on the specific GA aircraft) — quite a...

Nice! And it's not kinda cool, it's very cool :).