Rupert

Done that as well. Though when I did it the paint and siding was in better shape. Come to think of it, so was I!

I'd say somewhere in between. Depending of course whether you're talking about burning av-gas or jet fuel. However I think the real GA future is in quick change-out battery pack power. Take a couple hour flight out, eat a burger while getting a few minute battery change, then make your return flight. Or use the battery changed plane to train the next student pilot while avoiding the external noise of an IC engine aircraft. I've read that more than one brand of new GA aircraft is experimenting with battery powered trainers with over two hours range. Then you'd make a five to ten minute battery change and it'd be ready for another two hour lesson. Take that concept up a huge notch or two and consider the JOBY eVTOL. It already can hover, then travel at 170 knots for 100 miles to a hover landing. Just the thing for trips to and from the Martha's Vineyard summer cottage! And probably as quiet as the Mercedes SUV they're ferrying across with this summer. Having said that, judging by the pictures I've seen it's butt ugly!!

True we did that whenever we could as well. Also on either Japanese or cross country US ferry hops I always chose overnights or even just a meal at SAC bases whenever possible. Their food, and certainly their quarters easily beat any I ever enjoyed at any other service bases in the world, including in DC. And if you ever land at KLOU you need to try a meal in the La Relais Restaurant on site in the old terminal building which Lindburgh saw. Which is IMO among the two best of any restaurants in Louisville. Having said that, this is Derby Week in Louisville and the PGA tournament is coming here in a few weeks as well. If you're smart you'll avoid Louisville like the plague during either Derby Week or PGA Week! Forget about tie-down facilities, hanger space, or even Follow Me Trucks, Courtesy Cars, or taxis at or near either LOU or SDF during those days/weeks. And you'll be lucky to get an IFR clearance within 8 to 12 hours before, during, or after after either event! Which is awful because all the hotel rooms were booked years ago at way over the top rates.

My thanks to all the amateur radio operators over the decades! In the 60's while a pilot in combat in Vietnam my mother contacted me at about 02:00 Vietnam time to tell my stepfather, who first taught me so much had died. She didn't have any understanding of radio conversation so every time she'd stop speaking her local operator would have to tell her to say "Over." Despite that, I got the news and could honor Frank and go on with my life. A decade or so later I got my license and spent many an enjoyable hour communicating with or hearing others communicating with people who lived all over the world. The internet and cell phones may be great toys. But IMO when the power goes out or the cell towers go down It's wonderful to still have amateur operators all over the world to keep is in touch and remind us that regardless of who is in power in whatever country that day, we are still caring and sharing human beings!!

Those broadcasts were also a wonderful recruiting tool for the armed forces and also for kids who were tempted to enter math and/or science fields. IMO anything we can do to wean kids and in fact most of their parents, from TIK TOK and other phone apps is a good thing!! There are millions of interesting things going on in our world and in other worlds if people would just put their phones down and look around a few minutes every day!

Beautifully Done! I can well remember Molly & my first 747 Flight on the "City of Westminster" from Boston US to London UK for Christmas. That was the most special ticketed flight I can recall ever being on. It's hugely sad the bean counters have de-contented Boeing into the disaster it now appears to be!! I'm hugely thrilled they never seemed to have done their damage to the H-46s and H-47s!

+1! Especially the last sentence, which I highlighted in the quote. Anticipating the need for control input and doing it smoothly rather than reacting is key to every great flight experience, regardless of aircraft type or design. BTW: The same rule applies whether flying, biking, yachting, or operating any other device.

Yep! Life wouldn't be nearly as worthwhile without a few good moments and great sounds like that to remember!! Michael

I'm all over that Crab Benedict!! And some Rye Toast complete with lots of Joe to wash it all down!!

I agree! I certainly haven't noticed one.

Actually we've had two (2) total solar eclipses in my part of the world in the last several years! The first was in 2017 during which I and about 100 or more "friends" watched while they drank every drop of my beer and cheap wine while watching the eclipse in my backyard. The other instance just happened over Paoli Indiana. (Yes there is really a town with such a strange name in Indiana) Where I wasn't "Hosting" anyone TBTG!! Paoli is about 40 miles from where I live. And it was a bitch to get home from after the event!!! Having already seen one "totality" it was already a kinda Been There Seen That scenario. And not worth the trip. I assume I'll miss the next one in 2044.

Also with the older sims, I prefer P3D, you could scan multiple views all the time just by moving your eyes, as you do in a real aircraft, Instead of scrolling or changing screens to see what you want to see. I normally have three screens to look out of the windscreen and sides with and another screen, mounted lower, to scan the instruments. Like RW flying. Plus, on day one, I already knew how to work all the control functions as they were standard on the older sims.

Please do!! They were really nice! However I had to hurry to get back home for the total eclipse yesterday. Therefore I didn't have time to tip them myself! I wanted to see this eclipse as I'll likely miss the next one in 2044. Thankfully the rainy weather held off til today, so we could see the whole eclipse very well in French Lick In. yesterday!!!!

GREAT IDEA!! I'll give that a try! Planning and forethought, but without malice!! Just don't tell the FAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damned Straight!! In Orange County as well as Frisco!! My first experience of one, I was driving a car!! I had not a clue how to steer! It felt a lot like flying in very heavy wind gusts! But other objects such as guard rails and other vehicles were just feet or inches away!! Luckily I didn't get hit or hit something else! We have tornadoes here in Kentucky fairly frequently. In fact a Force 2 one came through just this last week less than three miles from where we live. Both Molly's and my mother's homes, about five miles apart, were damaged by tornadoes in the 1960's. (Before we met.) And we had some garage damage from one early1980's. But they're usually somewhat predictable. Shakers!! I don't ever want to live thorough another one of them!