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Spin Zone / Re: Behold Your Fellow Citizens!
« on: July 12, 2023, 04:03:37 PM »
We’re fucking doomed.

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Spin Zone / Re: You Never Really Know About People You Meet
« on: March 09, 2023, 07:40:29 AM »
My daughter ran track and cross county and worked all through high school, as did most of her female friends. Im proud of the group she hung out with, very smart, enterprising, and hard working you g ladies. They’re all going places.

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Pilot Zone / Re: Bourbon Snobs
« on: November 16, 2022, 06:54:33 AM »
Another good tasting value bourbon is Benchmark, it's pretty damned good with a few drops of water, and excellent as a mixing bourbon for bourbon manhattans and the like. Benchmark is a product of Buffalo Trace distillery.

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Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) / Re: Watsonville
« on: August 27, 2022, 11:27:17 AM »
The twin coming in at 2x normal approach speed to me simply means the twin driver was trying to beat the 152 to the runway. Well, he sure beat the 152...

I do straight in approaches and still will do them in the future, but I listen to the radio intently and look for traffic. If anyone is in the pattern, anywhere in the pattern, I break off the straight in and join the pattern as expected. And yes, I call that on the radio such that those in the pattern understand my intentions.

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Spin Zone / Re: Lay Off White Teachers First
« on: August 24, 2022, 07:09:17 AM »
But firing white teachers and keeping black ones lifts the black demographic. Maybe the intent is to turn the white demographic into the dependent one.

The only way the black demographic is lifted is if the best teachers are retained regardless of skin color. This just reeks of more EO circlejerk and race pandering.

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Pilot Zone / Re: Bourbon Snobs
« on: June 22, 2022, 05:10:36 AM »
Anthony, try one bottle of Evan Williams white label (aka bottled in bond). Shockinly good for the price, and another one to try for a little more is Four Roses yellow label.

https://evanwilliams.com/bottled-in-bond-bourbon?cta=bottled-in-bond

https://fourrosesbourbon.com/bourbon/four-roses-bourbon/


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Spin Zone / Re: Ukraine, Putin, and Biden
« on: May 03, 2022, 05:06:40 AM »
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Spin Zone / Re: Anybody following the Johnny Depp Amber Heard drama?
« on: April 26, 2022, 08:36:40 AM »
You can't assume that those of us who reduce certain risks are enjoying life less.

Agree, which is why I prefaced with "to each their own!"

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Spin Zone / Re: Supply chain problems
« on: April 26, 2022, 08:26:08 AM »
Now the guy is talking about ethanol disruption and how that will contribute to even higher prices at the pump.

I still think the end game is:

The upper middle and rich who can afford electric cars will be pushed that way
The lower middle and below who can't will be pushed to public transportation

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Spin Zone / Re: Who is running the country?
« on: April 26, 2022, 05:25:38 AM »
Big Tech, Big MEDIA/TECH, China, etc.

Don't forget a big dose of Obama, he's still in the fundamental transformation game.

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The Mooney is unforgiving of fast and/or hard landings. Either results in the aircraft leaving the runway after the first landing attempt. It's happened to me a number of times over the years, and what to do depends.

If the runway is of sufficient length, I add a little throttle, and then softly land again. This technique usually works, but if the aircraft leaves the runway a second time, it's time to apply full power and get the hell out of there. Maybe you can save the second bounce, maybe not. The problem is, if you get a third bounce, you will likely have a prop strike.

I didn't know he came down so hard as to damage the landing gear, that is a tough one. Ugh. One problem with the Mooney is the rubber biscuit landing gear. Unlike an a strut, which I assume has some damping abilitiy just as a car strut does, the rubber gear has zero damping. Pretty much all of the energy put into compressing the gear WILL be released as a rebound, bouncing the plane back into the air. A soft touchdown (at the right speed) is the ticket to avoiding the bounce.

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Spin Zone / Re: More reasons to get government out of education.
« on: April 18, 2022, 08:36:59 AM »
My wife's sister... slept (both literally and figuratively) her way through high school.  Moved from one menial job to the next.  Says that we "just got lucky" that we have a plane, a nice house, live in a nice area.  No, we worked hard through high school.  Went to college, got good jobs and worked our asses off.  Then went back for more schooling and worked our asses off again earning PhDs and climbing the academic ladder.  Now we're at the top of our game and doing very well.  We're looking forward to a very comfortable retirement.  Yeah, we just got lucky.  And because of that she's all the time wanting a handout.

So many people equate "luck" with the spoils of the hard worker. People tell me I'm lucky to be relatively trim and at a good weight at my age. Bull fucking shit, luck has nothing to do with it. Working out 5-6 days a week and avoiding chips, cookies, candy, soda has far more to do with it than luck.

The same with why I can afford a nice house and nice toys and am retiring early. My wife and I both worked hard to get to where we are now.

I hate "luck"...

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Pilot Zone / Re: Radial engines!
« on: April 14, 2022, 06:02:01 AM »
Oh fuck me, I meant B-29.

I was only 23 off  :o

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Spin Zone / Re: Where is everyone?
« on: April 13, 2022, 08:04:38 AM »
Thinking about this... isn't Ethanol production highly subsidized by the government?  So "allowing" ethanol use in the summer isn't just polluting and ruining fuel efficiency, it's another government handout of OUR money back to us.

You mean handing OUR money to ADM and other big farming conglomerates.

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Pilot Zone / Re: Radial engines!
« on: April 12, 2022, 06:51:48 AM »
No story, other than I’ve never had a job involving radial engines.  And I like them… from a safe distance.

I guess you never got a round to it!

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