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There's actually a big debate going on about how ChatGPT is so entirely biased toward the left. The left thinks it's peachy of course. The pro-liberty side doesn't like it. But it just goes to show how this tool isn't thinking at all, it's just regurgitating what's programmed into it.

All this desire to "force" people to have to use their hanger/resource in a certain way will always ultimately be bad for aviation. Giving up rights is an endless game of falling dominoes.

It seems terribly wrong to force the taxpayers to help pay for what appears to be Boeing's research program.

You're telling me that you don't fundamentally understand the concept that when something is made more expensive to obtain in terms of time or effort or dollars, then fewer people will obtain it. You think the reason that few people own Ferraris is because nobody wants to own one. You might as...

The constantly inflated cost of parts and labor in aviation are not due to Covid or supply chains. It's the FAA. It's simple supply and demand. The FAA greatly restricts the number of mechanics who can work on our planes. This provides the mechanics with a partial monopoly environment which...

All things considered, it seems clear the FAA is making this change due to the effects of vaccines. I read that AP News damage control article linked in the second post. It makes the insistent claim that the FAA is not doing it because of vaccine damage, but then actually offers no real...

A comment with no personal attack. Thank you. Yes, non-commercial pilots who do not fly for compensation do not apply to the inflated-salary part of my argument. But likewise, the characters in the book are not referring to non-commercial GA pilots. By and large when someone behind the...

It may be a perspective you're not accustomed to thinking about, but it's not wrong. I didn't say that was the only effect of licenses but economically it's a critical one that people are conditioned to ignore. I don't see any way it can be logically denied. All you gave was an off-topic...

Unfortunately it's pretty logical that pilots as a group would tend to be self-centered or sound privileged beyond the peons around them. The reason is that they are privileged. A pilot's license serves to protect pilots from competition by restricting who can be a pilot. That should be very...

The schools in question aren't vendors because they do not sell PSI's testing service. They don't send customers to PSI, they provide their own testing service. They are in fact competitors because if you take your test with Joe's Flight School you aren't taking it at PSI. Whatever money the...

Typical government absurdity. PSI is allowed to decide how much their competitors get to keep from each test. PSI gets to keep the entire $175 and they have decided that their competitors now get to keep $22. The article doesn't say what happens to the other $153? Presumably PSI keeps it...

Multiple posters have pointed to the fact that aviation maintenance shops are always booked. As though that were evidence that the GA community were healthy. This is not a sound argument. All this indicates is that the supply of maintenance service is inadequate to meet demand. However it...

It is the responsibility of the parent to see that their children are kept safe from danger. Everyone else in the country should not have to give up their liberty because some parent can't be bothered to look after their kids. I'm not saying you shouldn't save the child if you get the chance...

Everyone sees something different. When I watch the video I don't see anyone being forced to be there against their will. People should be allowed to make their own choices and decide on their own risk level. Without that no one will be allowed to free solo or fly airplanes or drive or eat...

The problem of civil asset forfeiture is older than even this thread. Fundamentally it's no different than taxation. It's all government taking by force. But if you back up a step you conclude that whatever the government does is directly the fault of people who support government and no one...

Why should anyone care if they're doing actual instructing or just sightseeing. I can't see how it hurts anyone except commercial sightseeing outfits wanting the government to protect them from competition. The FAA just has way, way too many rules. Fundamentally this issue comes down to...

Passenger door cracks open at -2:17 before the nose comes down.

Since the wealthiest people generally pay the most in taxes, there's nothing wrong with them bidding up the price and getting the lion-share of the available hangers. However at the end of the day there really are no fair or moral systems if we're talking about government run airports. You...

These crashes and fatalities are always enormous tragedies. But people should be allowed to make their own choices in life and not have the nanny state force everyone to live in a padded box.

Not once did the article make the obvious declaration that the government should be rule-bound to maintain all public space as contiguous. If they did that one simple thing then the corner-crossing issue would vanish. That's Yahoo News trying to keep the government who is obviously at fault...