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  1. schmookeeg

    Private passage for privileged pets

    As much as I hate the entitlement of the bring-your-pet-fn-everywhere crowd, I actually haven't seen a misbehaved pet yet, nor a potty issue. I assume it must happen, and I don't assume the owner must deal with it promptly. As such I would take 2x the number of entitled pets out there in the...
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    Getting share price down for flying clubs

    I have run a club similar to #2. The short answer is that it is a for-profit club, and really a flight school in disguise with lower volumes and (hopefully) better pilots. Whoever holds the equity is pocketing any upside, or at least intending to. :) We used ours to provide our flight school...
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    What is it with all wx pages going to ****? (this time Windy)

    I'm lucky that in my career I've been able to avoid that dreck. Others are less fortunate, obviously, because it's eeeeeeeverywhere. I actually assume most of the implementors of that garbage are stuck on H1B visas and basically are faced with the choice of "enshittify or be deported along...
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    Jeppesen Logbook Grrr!

    Yeah this is why I keep 0.38mm scratchy-scratch pens in my flight bag. I hate using those things. I often try to take the remarks into the right among the frequently redundant hour columns -- or at least the signature. My sig could take up that whole dang box if I wasn't paying attention.
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    What is it with all wx pages going to ****? (this time Windy)

    It's not the developers, it's the idiot middle management trying to justify their continued employment after "job done" We're usually the victims of the enshittification, not the perpetrators. (posting while covering throat :D )
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    Looking for cheap hangar LA area

    Are you intending to commute in? Close "as the crow flies" is not the same as "close as the car sits in traffic" in LA as I suspect you know :) I'd do CPM or HHR before EMT. The difference in drive, if you're near commuting times, could be 30-45 minutes. I have been based at CPM and HHR. CPM...
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    TOP 10 THINGS THAT WORRY A PPL CANDIDATE

    "Not passing" ?
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    What is the most fun "Aviation tool/gear" you've purchased?

    12 feet! It's a GR-12 :) And yes to the HF box, got it on some sidewalk sale and could use 3 more like it. I'm a fan. @Salty -- I learned that you can just fire lowball bids at Iron Planet and they'll relay them for you and you can actually end up haggling. It's slightly strange vs. eBay, but I...
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    What is the most fun "Aviation tool/gear" you've purchased?

    Dumb and probably not what you're after -- but I own my hangar (port-a-port) at an airport that doesn't necessarily want me there, and it shows through in many ways. My favorite aviation purchase recently is a little Genie scissor lift. I have used it to patch all of the ceiling leaks, run...
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    Etiquette for establishing 2 way radio-communication at delta

    I was thinking the RV could claim radio issue or even "sorry I never heard him", never acknowledge an ATC instruction after that, and the feds would be toothless to hang him for it. Just a mental thought. The more saturated the airspace around me gets (and more error-prone/entitled the pilots...
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    Etiquette for establishing 2 way radio-communication at delta

    Amusing side-thought -- since tower answered back with the N number (thus 2-way comms established), could not this RV now drag his jowl through the class D any which way he wishes, all while ignoring any subsequent comms? Bad form surely, but... I feel like a tower controller who was grouched...
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    Thanks a lot, Ukraine

    "the event" ?! Has open discussion of middle-eastern terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers on 9/11/2001 become something not to be spoken aloud like the N-word, "gypped", or selecting an incorrect pronoun contrary to someone's preference?
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    Fixed gear temporarily for insurance purposes?

    I have venmo'ed you the value I found in your post. It's only money. :P OP -- rather than getting a ragged out dream plane and trying to find a loophole around the quoted insurance rate on it -- would it make more sense to get a nice example of your dream plane and arrange to share the costs...
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    A letter from the Southeast United States

    ehrmagerd change is a thing! rabble rabble rabble
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    Dangerous request from airport manager?

    How busy are english aerodrome patterns typically? that would set up a demolition derby here when we get 6+ in the pattern. Perhaps the safety impact there is different?
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    I hope none of you were waiting for the Apple electric car...

    That nearly describes the Chevy Bolt which I thought was a great little EV.
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    Any regrets moving up to better plane

    With an errant spike at 140kt for current vans builders?
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    Texas fires

    I thought the brown part was south of the wall...? :p
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    Any regrets moving up to better plane

    It's a hockey-stick style graph, knots vs. BS. As you add knots, the BS shoots skyward rapidly. Most people like being in that comfy spot just before the rise gets unbearable, in a Bonanza. :)
  20. schmookeeg

    Hangar as an investment?

    I own a large port-a-port. (Executive II with extensions -- about 52' wide) A hangar my size would rent for 800+/mo locally, and there are not very many of them around. Land rent is 327/mo. Arguably I could make my money back in 7 years which is a decent 15% cap rate. I'd also argue that I...
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