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Spin Zone / Now Trump won't leverage DACA for wall funding?
« on: September 12, 2017, 03:08:33 PM »
The Art of the Deal guy is bending over for  Chuck Schumer to have his way with him.

Any true believers still think that Trump meant what he said on the campaign trail?

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/12/white-house-well-sign-daca-bill-without-key-demand/

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Spin Zone / Trump, Schumer Scheme to Repeal Debt Ceiling
« on: September 07, 2017, 11:57:03 AM »
Is this the Art of the Deal?  Is giving your opponent 100% of what they want right out of the box a winning strategy? 

What the fuck is going on? 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/report-trump-schumer-agree-to-pursue-debt-ceiling-repeal/

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Pilot Zone / Flew the Fisk Approach in a Warbird
« on: August 01, 2017, 08:58:43 AM »
I completed a bucket list item last week with my first flight during AirVenture, and did it in our CAF Wisconsin Wing's Fairchild PT-26 Cornell.  I picked the right days to get in and out, so the approach was a piece of cake. I even got a straight in for runway 9.  After flying the Fisk with the extreme visibility of a Warbird,  I'm pretty confident I won't be flying it in a Cessna any time soon. What a blast.


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Pilot Zone / Vlado Lenoch has slipped the surly bonds of earth...
« on: July 16, 2017, 10:13:08 PM »
And touched the face of God.

I was with several airshow performers and friends today doing some hangar flying when news came in on Vlado's death.  I only met him twice, but he was such a gentleman when he flew in to our CAF Wing's Gathering of Warbirds on May 27th.

It was rough seeing how my friends took this news. Rest In Peace, and prayers for Vlado's family, and the family of his passenger.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/illinois-pilot-killed-in-kansas-plane-crash/2224543/

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Spin Zone / OK, Who's Going to OSH (AirVenture) 2017?
« on: July 11, 2017, 08:04:59 AM »
This board seems pretty quiet lately, and it seems no one reads the Pilot Zone any more, so I'm putting this in the SZ.

I'll be there all week starting the Friday before the show, and working Flightline Ops almost every day.

At some point (Wx dependent) I'll drive down to Waukesha to bring fly our CAF PT-26 into the show via the Fisk Approach.

Anyone else going?

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Pilot Zone / Flew the Fisk Approach in the PT-26
« on: July 05, 2017, 06:20:39 PM »
Flew the Fisk Approach into OSH in the PT-26 on Saturday as practice for "hopefully" doing the same in the Big Show in three weeks.  Piece of cake, especially when there aren't 30 other planes merging with you at Ripon.   I wanted to get the sight picture of the route. My only disappointment was that I landed on runway 9 vs 27 with a four mile final. Not quite the same. I wanted to try my hand on hitting the orange dot.  Still it was a great flight.



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Spin Zone / 'Gimp - Acro Question
« on: May 08, 2017, 10:37:34 AM »
'Gimp, I'm working my way to get into my CAF Wing's SNJ, and am considering going to Warbird Adventures in Kissimmee next year for their 10-hour T-6 checkout.

On Saturday I flew with a friend in his mint Harvard, and did my first little bit of acro. My stomach did not like it one bit. We did a 3.5g loop which was pretty cool, followed by aileron roll and a barrel roll.

I had to crack the canopy and fly S&L for a while. It was almost like doing my first unusual attitude recovery under the hood when I was doing my IR training.

My friend has owned his Harvard for almost 30 years, and knows it inside and out. Also, acro in the deep hole in the back of a T-6 is probably not the optimal place to do this.

How did you adapt to acro, or how have you seen people adapt to it?  I'd hate to get into the T-6 and only fly standard rate turns!

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Spin Zone / Susan Rice Ordered Unmasking of Trump
« on: April 03, 2017, 11:54:31 AM »
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/3/susan-rice-ordered-unmasking-trump-team-intel-bloo/

At what point will people start going to prison for this public corruption?

Trump can start draining the swamp by having our Attorney General start charging public officials with corruption and sending them to prison. That would include Rice, Huma Abedin, Lois Lerner, etc etc.

Typical Washington comity says to let such thing go so they aren't characterized as political witch trials, ala some third world shitholes. Fuck that. Someone needs to start paying the price for political corruption.

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Spin Zone / Of Course Racism Started on 20 Jan 17
« on: February 26, 2017, 12:19:38 PM »
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39090918

I am getting so fucking sick of this. I found this from a friend who posted it on FB. I responded accordingly, a leftist responded, and guess what?  Responses have been turned off.

Here was my post:

I'm sorry, I try not to do politics on FB, but I'm getting sick and tired of the continued false, caustic and inflammatory rhetoric that crimes like this have anything to do with Donald Trump, his presidency, or his supporters.  Are people intentionally trying to cause division? 

In 2012 a racist pig killed 6 people in a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Who was president then?  I've lived around the country, and racists exist everywhere, and have existed forever.

If people have an argument with immigration policies, argue that point. But implicating the president and half the country as being racists who endorse or tolerate  or accept racist, criminal acts is unfair, false, and divisive.

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Spin Zone / Trump Haters and Anti-Semitism
« on: February 21, 2017, 04:17:42 PM »
OK, I just saw a FB post where Ivanka Trump tweeted about religious tolerance and the need to protect houses of worship (re: the numerous bomb threats against Jewish temples), and the leftist Trump haters are saying that she is a hypocrite because her dad and his followers are so anti-Semitic.

So when the fuck did this happen?  What has Trump ever said or done that makes him a Jew hater? 

To the contrary, it is the LEFT that appears to be reviving anti-Israel attacks, led by former president (I love saying that) Obama, who shit on Israel at every turn, and the Jew-hating despots that have infested the UN.

Are they just so filled with hate and anger that they don't even know what they are saying, or do they really believe Trump hates Jews, in contravention of all evidence to the contrary?

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Spin Zone / "Drunk Hillary" on Election Night
« on: November 18, 2016, 07:31:16 PM »
And she said TRUMP wasn't fit to be near the nuclear codes?

http://yournewswire.com/drunk-hillary-voilence-bill-clinton-election-night/

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Spin Zone / A message for 'Gimp and Lucifer
« on: November 09, 2016, 09:21:06 AM »
During the heat of the primary season, I was super critical of the both of you for bringing us a candidate that will crash and burn in the general election. I didn't think his angry followers could ever carry the day - I was sure that there were too few of you to matter.  Hell, us Tea Partiers got defeated not by the Left, but by our own political Establishment on the Right.

I was a Never Trumper. Right up to the point that Hillary got away with her crimes in the interest of political expediency and political corruption of the DOJ. That was my line in the sand.

As a lifelong Cubs fan, I'm not a fair-weather fan. I'm not a band-wagon jumper. I usually back the underdog, and get disgusted when the underdog is treated unfairly.  When Hillary called "you guys" deplorables, well, the that bitch called me a deplorable as well.

At some point I think I probably said that if I was wrong about Trump, I would apologize to you. Well, I was wrong, and you deplorable sumbitches were correct.

I still think Trump is a pig, but he's our pig now.  It's up to us to make sure he keeps his promises, and doesn't turn away from the messages that bought him a win.

Congratulations, and well done. I see some good things on the horizon for our country. I know I would never see those things if the results had been different this morning.

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Spin Zone / Suicide Watch at MSNBC
« on: November 09, 2016, 09:05:11 AM »
After Trump's speech I turned on MSNBC.

Oh my God.  Apparently, Trump won because ALL of us white voters are racist misogynists, and a Trump victory has unleashed us to drag our womenfolk by the hair to our next Klan rally.

The defeated Leftists are going to go scorched earth.

Rachel Maddow wanted is to think about all the people who will be living in fear with a Trump presidency - Muslims, immigrants, hispanics, women.

Lawrence O'Donnell embarrassed himself and should surrender his man card for saying that half the country is crying right now -"literally crying" - in fact he received a message from a college dormitory where EVERYONE is in tears over this.

It was glorious.

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Spin Zone / Merrick Garland
« on: November 09, 2016, 01:50:14 AM »
Well, I guess the GOP Senate wasn't so stupid after all for not confirming Merrick Garland, huh Kristin?

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Spin Zone / DRL Drone Racing "Pilots"
« on: November 03, 2016, 05:00:59 PM »
OMG. Now that my Cubs are World Champions, I'm flipping through the vast TV wasteland and saw a show by this title. It's categorized as "aviation' and the dorks at the controls of their little gaming unit are called "pilots." 

I guess that's all we pilots are now. Little gamers.

Ugh.

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