the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

I have two 2026 buses (<300 mi on the odo) in my body shop for repairs today. You might be asking yourself, isn't it summer why were they even on the road? Or possibly, isn't it 2025 still? The answer to both of those questions are yes, but here we are fixing buses that have not even transported a child yet.

Searching for inner peace...
 
Rich Holt said:
I have two 2026 buses (<300 mi on the odo) in my body shop for repairs today. You might be asking yourself, isn't it summer why were they even on the road? Or possibly, isn't it 2025 still? The answer to both of those questions are yes, but here we are fixing buses that have not even transported a child yet.

Searching for inner peace...
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Training new drivers, maybe?
 
the flights you start planning in your head when it's been week after week after week after week of thunderstorms thunderstorms thunderstorms...................


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I GOT THIS!!!!
 
eman1200 said:
the flights you start planning in your head when it's been week after week after week after week of thunderstorms thunderstorms thunderstorms...................


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I GOT THIS!!!!
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Ah grasshopper - it’s not the destination but the journey.
 
WDD said:
Canadians getting back at us for that maple syrup tariff.
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NO! not the maple syrup war! (where's Tyler hiding now?)

edit: wait, isn't real maple syrup mostly made in the USA?

edit edit: I stand corrected. But I'm not sure why the USA would need to import real maple syrup
 
OK, since someone brought up maple syrup and the production of it in the USA... it might surprise some to know that you can make it yourself, if you have the three required ingredients: one or more maple trees, winter, and fire. I've made it from the two silver maples and a smaller red maple in my Nebraska back yard, twice. It's fun and absolutely delicious, every bit as good as the Canuckistani produced stuff. And since I have some around, I did a little experimenting and invented something.

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DaleB said:
OK, since someone brought up maple syrup and the production of it in the USA... it might surprise some to know that you can make it yourself, if you have the three required ingredients: one or more maple trees, winter, and fire. I've made it from the two silver maples and a smaller red maple in my Nebraska back yard, twice. It's fun and absolutely delicious, every bit as good as the Canuckistani produced stuff. And since I have some around, I did a little experimenting and invented something.
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a critical component is to know when to tap the tree and how.
 
Bob Noel said:
a critical component is to know when to tap the tree and how.
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It's pretty easy to find the info on line. Generally, you want temps below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. This year I tapped the trees in mid to late January, which is well before most resources tell you to do it, but they seem to mostly assume you're a lot farther north than we are. This year I was done the first week of March. Supplies are easy to find from various places on line, including Amazon. I have a few plastic spiles (the taps) and use 3 gallon plastic "sap sack" bags to collect the sap, which I empty into a 5 gallon bucket. I'll get 5 gallons or more on a really good day, so when the sap is running I'll boil every day to keep up.

A lot of the information you find and the equipment sold is for much larger scale production than just a little backyard hobby thing. I bought a kit with a few spiles and bag holders, I use a propane turkey fryer with a stock pot to boil the sap down, then finish it on the stove inside. It's fairly cheap, very enjoyable, and we haven't had to buy syrup since 2022 (and we're giving some to friends and famiy members as well).
 
Went for a quick hazy flight today. Got my favorite ATC request:

"Arrow 42T, gimme best speed, aircraft on 7 mile ILS for 2L"

I have an irrational love of being told to haul ass. So I floored it (the best an arrow can).

I love getting that request... Except when Great Lakes approach told me to give them 150kts or better, and I wanted to respond in my best Scotty impression "I'm givin 'er all she's got captain!"

Turns out the controller had my type in as an Aerostar...
 
Closed out my first logbook today. Stretches back from 2/9/2019 (first flight of PPL training) to 8/2/25.
I hadn't updated the logbook since November '24, and as a coincidence it turns out there were just enough entries left to match the number of flights I had to enter :)
470 flights covering 813.3 hours TT, 776.6 PIC, 615.9 XC, 67.5 flight training hrs, and 821 landings, in 24 states.

Since I got the plane in 2020 I've been tracking the cumulative hours flown. It's tapered off a bit recently courtesy of work (*sigh*). But I'm hopeful that curve will return to a steeper slope soon :cool:
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Now it's time to hunt for a new logbook or go digital...
 
Jim K said:
I took my first flight lesson 6/24/19. I already had my ground school and written test done at that time.
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1/11/2019 for me!

ArrowFlyer86 said:
tracking the cumulative hours flown
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With all this, I was inspired to finally work on my PowerBI analyzing my logbook.
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Pretty cool to see the pick up in flying last year. Unfortunately I've settled back into a slower pace this year. Lots more to do in it (I'm terrible with creating metrics) but came up with this gem:

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You ever get that sinking feeling when you're landing at night, when your inner monologue goes something like this:

Self: Huh, that's weird, kinda thought I'da touched down by now
Self (2 seconds later): anyyyy second now....
Self (4 seconds later, pitched up real high): COULD YA WOULD YA?!?!?

... Andddd WHEELS down!

First night flight I've had since middle of May, and my flare was off by quite a bit. Luckily the rwy s 7500 feet so I would have had to clown it up for a bit longer before I had to go around. I owe the plane a better landing -- gonna go do some more night flying this weekend.
 
ArrowFlyer86 said:
You ever get that sinking feeling when you're landing at night, when your inner monologue goes something like this:

Self: Huh, that's weird, kinda thought I'da touched down by now
Self (2 seconds later): anyyyy second now....
Self (4 seconds later, pitched up real high): COULD YA WOULD YA?!?!?

... Andddd WHEELS down!

First night flight I've had since middle of May, and my flare was off by quite a bit. Luckily the rwy s 7500 feet so I would have had to clown it up for a bit longer before I had to go around. I owe the plane a better landing -- gonna go do some more night flying this weekend.
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Come land at C81 at night and you'll realize why I'm not night current.
 
File under: no good deed goes unpunished

Picked up @NealRomeoGolf from dropping his Seneca off for annual. Had ANOTHER flat tire. This time there was a smoking gun...a broken cord in the tire had rubbed a hole in the tube. The shop had a new tube and a good used tire they installed for me, so all's well that ends well. They even balanced it, which I have never seen done before. The "new" tire also eliminated the little jiggle I felt in the rudder pedals while taxiing...that was apparently a symptom of the broken cord.

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Birds - what did I ever do to them?

Got the plane back today from the mechanic yesterday who pounded out the dent in left wing leading edge where a turkey vulture hit when I entered the pattern. This morning had the detail guy do the annual scrub / ceramic coat retreat. He sent a text with this....

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