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RV nose gears don't take well to that kind of slop in landing proficiency. Got a bit lucky in the phase of the PIO (turf they would have been effed). All of the RVs I've put offers on in the past 3 years have been flipped. I'm ok with it, but it is a conceded opportunity cost of the design...

Oh, acro-category stressed and trike configuartion offered? absolutely interested now as an alternative to the RV. Need to see what kind of all-in costs in present day though. They admit the price list needs update, a YIO 360 for less than 30K, yeah that tells me their out the door figure is...

One hell of an USAF flying career, and life. What an enviable run. A nickel....

Or 500KCAS+ airplane for that matter, though it's highly encouraged you keep it below 225 for the sake of your limbs.....I'll post the evidence here when I retire in a few years ;)

In my lived experience as a career flight training guy on the .mil side, the thousands (at this point) of accessions I've witnessed or been involved in training over the past 14 years paint a very clear picture to me that socioeconomics is the largest determinant to getting access this level of...

Reminds me of the pre-deployment briefs in the bomber. "On the matter of leave....Conception or birth, pick a date!" Remember bois, Jody works weekends too. :fingerwag:

A low-key implication was made lower-income people (and class by extension, though they'll deny it) shouldn't procreate on the basis of said poverty. I retorted I'm not a fan of eugenics.

I hate to see kids grow up under the precarity that being working poor (which way too many who self-report as middle class actually belong to) engenders, but moralizing socioeconomics as a price floor for reproduction? That's just eugenics by another name. Noooo thank you, count me out of that...

Nah, thing is, insurance on housing is a non-discretionary expenditure, once you remove the bad faith veneer of govt CPI goalpost shifting, Fed perennially quarterly-downward-revising, cooked-book calculations. Realize most Americans are cash broke and 33% are housing cost burdened (euphemism...

You're not an outlier. I just dropped NatGen as well because they quoted me an 83% increase, C TX market. I stopped looking at the total increase since I purchased in 2018, but it ain't pretty. I've had to "shop around" every.single.year. It's ridiculous, but it really jumped the shark post...

No, not for the ones most get into for in the first place, definitionally. Timing and luck rules the roost. Doesn't mean a middle class living (whatever is left of it anyways) can't be derived outside those positions. In seniority driven lists, there are combinations of age and hiring cycles...

I would be interested in pursuing an engine course in retirement. Time has always been my conflict pursuing major engine work on my own, lack of tools and dedicated space being the other one of course.

yes indeed. The guy who bought my blowded up Arrow also does the part 91 thing, and spoke to me of exactly those anecdotes you highlight. In his case, taking a lap dog from Dallas to NYC for a grooming appointment, in an empty mid-cabin. My close family friend who manages aircraft in the...

I rather "Ctrl+F" it. If you could Professor, provide us mech/aero engineering graduates who begrudgingly strugglebussed through chem class, with the context as to why Lycoming doesn't, or conversely, why auto OEM use hardened seats? Post 12 already jumped ahead of my implication, in that it...

I know the thread was aimed at the germanwings archetypes, but isn't the grievance here (numerically) the non-outlier rank and file getting ensnarled in a proverbial HEPA filter over insurance coding malfeasance, mishandled/overstated medical nothingburgers like the common cold (aka ADHD) or...

why aren't aromatics a problem in automotive valve seats? Not being rhetorical, I'm legitimately trying to understand what Lyco is insinuating. Or is UL94 that wildly a different formulation than 94+ octane auto mogas. It is my understanding 100LL without the LL (nothing low about it, in the...

yet United couldn't do it in 10K, oOf. :fingerwag:

It proves the farce that class III is on the public safety outcome front, and they know it. That's why I can't break bread with those petty functionaries' penchant for defending the status quo. They act in bad faith when confronted with objective (empirical meta-outcomes in this case)...

The closure of ACY is certainly a company attempt (even if only by proxy) at trying to induce that end. Spirit has a regional labor business model. It may be an acceptable 'career stop' for those who get stuck in the game of musical chairs for the industry (in the way they may not consider FFD...

it's really just an offshoot of 2-sigma-right people on the gratuitous contrarian spectrum of impulsivity. To wit, there's quite a bit of grift opportunities for people who identify that predisposition in the usual suspects, and exploit it. Many o' radio (now social media) personalities have...