jkhirsch

I am happy to report that I am finally back in the air. I was going to head to San Antonio over the weekend, but was informed by my girlfriend that she has an exam on Monday...bummer we're looking at 20 degrees all weekend. First of all I would like to say thanks to everyone who participated in my notorious thread whether it was constructive or not. Sometimes it just feels better to complain to people that can relate to your plight. I want to open up a discussion for a meet, greet, and eat for us here in the OH, MI, IN, KY, IL general area. Or if you have a really fast one, come in from wherever you want! I don't intend for this to be a restrictive outing, I just never see much activity in that general area. It's been a long and strange year for me and I'd love to get together and meet some of you guys. The most central location my mind immediately goes to is KUMP in Indianapolis. I'm open to suggestions, but for a breakfast/lunch trip I was basically thinking of a ~1.5 hour flight constraint. Side Note: Am I somehow missing information on the "Mooney Summit"?

If you pause the initial video right as the plane crosses the bridge you can see that the left prop appears to be feathered. ~17 seconds

I'm going to throw a bump on this thread, just to see if anyone ever came to a resolution.

Looks like an exchange rate problem to me, just remember even when frustrated that ol'...honey...flies...vinegar.

I understand, but based on comments made around MS, I was lead to believe that others had contacted LASAR and received some mythical "drawings" from them. I was mostly a little underencouraged by the 72 dollar handle on what I assume is somewhere around a 6"x4" piece of aluminum. I having the part shipped directly to my mechanic, I may ask him to make some drawings, or when I get the plane back I'll see what I can rig up.

I didn't originally want to chime in here, but I did watch the video and it just simply looks like you had no flare (nose high attitude) in landing. Very simply put: I was taught that a perfect landing "stalls" the plane on the main gear, and then the nose wheel "naturally" lays down nice and easy.

I think the gentleman from LASAR thought I was stupid when I asked about the spec drawings for the under-step fairing. Instead I had to cough up $72 bucks for it.

I think there's a pretty good check in place for "nosy" or "annoying" drones.

Thanks for the help here, I got two panels.

It'd be a close race between a Comanche 260C and a Debonair. It would likely come down to what was available at what price.

They did! I heard they politely reminded him of how much money he was going to save on his health insurance and said, really being born in Canada you've already hit the lottery.

That's what I'm talking about Andy. I posit that the people presented with alternatives, are predisposed to figure it out on their own given time. This kind of goes back to the behavioral economics of, 'Does education change people's ways?' and the answer is fairly well proven that for the vast majority of those people it doesn't. Well since education doesn't change everyone's ways there is obviously something else going on that makes that information sink in. So presenting information to people won't change their minds, unless they are wired to have it [change their minds]. The wiring can and will be affected by the parental oversight, as you mentioned cognitive development. However my position is that cognitive development is different for different people and it is something that is hardwired and affected by parenting, but it cannot completely change a person's genetic predisposition to their tendencies. ...Getting deep in here

I think you'd have to eliminate all violent crimes from the eligibility pool as well. It's kind of like when you say something you shouldn't to someone, it changes things, and you can never go back to the previous way things were, because you'll always know "what they really think." The bottom line is basically a paradox. If your able to recognize you're screwed because of your parents and better yourself, you don't need any help in the first place. Those who need the help aren't able to recognize or assimilate that information even when it is correctly presented to them. c'est la vie

And now we have entered reality! People trying to force their beliefs on others, that's my whole point. Accountability is not a belief, grow up and take care of yourself and stop forcing the burden on others. You're parents being idiots and incapable of raising you properly is nothing but an excuse to feel entitled.

I was taught that below 20 Fahrenheit is safe for snow. Obviously icing/known icing you're talking about some different issues there.

Sure, I'm just using him as a proxy for what I perceive as a useful candidate, especially at this point. I'd like to as much as possible see a candidate that's not afraid to leave political agendas behind and try to actually accomplish something, or give the government a direction that economically makes sense. I have never thought social issues had any place in the government, with the acknowledgement that based on things that have been done in the past you cannot eliminate them completely.

If I could trust Romney to run country like a business and leave the useless political/social issues out of it, I think from a speculative economic perspective he could do the country well. I don't claim to have any facts to support that, that is merely the impression I have formed of him. Maybe that is the intended view carefully managed by political wranglers, maybe there is some truth in it, we have no way of knowing unless he's elected.

Isn't it kind of a cop out for your political stance to be, "I'm waiting for everything to blow up so we can do it right next time?" I think we have a bigger problem than the government. It's the people and their attitudes in this country. How can you fix that? It all starts with parenting, (sarcasm)aha sterilization, only let the capable raise children! (/sarcasm) I don't advocate some other country is better; it's probably a civilization wide problem. I currently envision America, the people and the government, as a large mass just moving through space and time not headed in any, one direction. What we truly need is someone who can unify our country; at the end of the day everyone wants the same thing that's so eloquently put in the Declaration of Independence...'life, liberty, and the pursuit of what we feel makes us happy.' What we get caught up in, is not our own internal strife, it's the nonsense around us. Why are you so concerned that someone else believes something differently from yourself? People need to understand that accountability is not a choice, and at this point our culture practically breeds insecurity. Being insecure is a dangerous and unhealthy thing for a brain to feel, and being unaccountable had a large impact all of the problems discussed herein.

I'm an information guy, but most of those questions here seem petty and you'll likely elicit a negative response. Nothing wrong with: Do you fly a lot? Something wrong with: How many hours have you flown in the last 5, 2, and one years? You can easily compare the times recorded for the annuals. No one wants to be interrogated.

Let's fix a problem, not legislate a plethora of new ones. This administration appears to have done more of the latter. Two prominent ones are Dodd-Frank and ACA.

As mentioned several pages ago, with which Andy and I agree. Equality continues to be and always has been oversold in America. I'm all for taking care of "the bottom." I'm not at all for trying to legislate equality because it will never work, people are not equal for any and all reasons you can come up with. In the past the government has been here to protect "the bottom" when "the top" went too far. Unfortunately the pendulum has swung beyond the point of protection; outside of personal gains that people receive from being involved in politics I truly think some people believe that they can legislate away "the bottom." Helping people is an intra-personal thing, and that's between you and your brain/heart/soul/god, not between you and the government and those people. Government exists for protection, not pro-action. To that point, the insurance/healthcare sector needed reform and correction. I'm not sure that's what we got.

Here's my overgeneralized, sweeping statement for this page: Because if you pay taxes and don't use the healthcare, you are a subsidizing the entire population of idiots that our entitlement programs have created; furthermore you are creating an economic disincentive for them to do anything with their life. I'd make a bet that all of us have used an Interstate before. If you take public policy and use some fairly basic economic models everything becomes much more clear. Then the debate truly is, do you think it's good to subsidize people and create economic disincentives?

I'll still chime in here and say that I was leaning towards an E because of what was available and the added performance...and then Jimmy Garrison stopped through Lexington and I sat in an E. That made my decision clear.

Pretty good video, very strange to actually see this all play out. Pilot was apparently in the water for ~30 minutes.

http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/today/popular/46376/Single_engine_airplane_preparing_to_ditch_in_Pacific_Ocean Anyone seen this yet? Apparently this is a video of the whole thing: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/388574/pilot-safe-after-ditching-253-miles-maui#.VMZGxEc8KrW