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Actually. I am told it was a response to Corona virus spread. Still looking for the FAA document to see all who it covers.

For all you multi crew member guys, the FAA is only requiring remaining pilot to wear a mask above FL410 when. the other leaves the station.. I have yet to see the new rule if it is a company based waiver or nationwide rule change. Result of coronavirus

KATL has mass scanning. There are cameras. in the arrivals area as you arrive. The image is computer analyzed and some one sits at a screen behind closed doors. If you are detected someone comes and gets you.

Hot tub.....aka MRSA pit. Out of the fire into the frying pan.

The reason why Japan, Taiwan and to a lesser extent South Korea were successful is because they were deeply scarred by SARS. They rebuilt their health systems in the expectation that China would deliver another virus. They were spot on.

Hank is correct. GE for several years has been using additive process for compressor and turbine blades. GE sees it as the method in the coming years.

To quote "Mayhem" in the Allstate commercials, "I'm a thousand years of tiger DNA waiting to pounce".

My self quarantine was a complete and total failure. Got it!

There are two pneumonia vaccines. One is for bacterial the other for viral. You need both to be protected. The viral vaccine is not for covid 19 but evidence is mounting that those who have had the vaccine have a very low incidence of covid 19 developing into pneumonia.

Have you had the pneumonia vaccines?

That is all very nice, but bravery and cunning of individual war fighters cannot overcome large strategic disadvantages of numbers, and range. It is why the Navy is pressing so hard on the UAT.

So your response when the Falklands is attacked again, now is to nuke Buenos Aires? When Putin decides to re-aquire the Baltics is to do what? How many aircraft will you send and how will you refuel them? You see refueling gives you a huge tactical advantage and that is combat payload and stay on station. You are not going to fly from the UK to the Baltics with a full combat payload nor will you be able to loiter/engage enemy aircraft. Let me however give you a more realistic scenario. The Iranians begin attacking UK flagged ships and tankers. How many aircraft can you sortie? Sure you can send a war ship or two but where is their air cover? Or the Chinese attack a US ship in the South China sea and Article 5 is invoked. How many?

Use Piddle packs! I don't know if I should laugh or cry at this line from the website. ""Voyager is the RAF’s sole air-to-air refuelling (AAR) tanker and also operates as a strategic air transport. "

Yep they did, hard to see in the rain though.

At least by 2004 they had standard taxiway terminology at KORD. They used to have taxiways with names like "Lake Shore Drive" and "Michigan Ave". It made copying taxi instructions a nightmare, and since there was no signs at the time, you had to really be tracing yourself on the 10-9 page. It was not unusual to end up beak to beak.

Just re-swing your compass and check the box, "Apple Watch ON".

You will not be charged a landing fee unless you use the FBO.

Oh and you ask have I landed at KATL, yes even once in my PA-18 which was a hoot.

OK, let's get this cleared up. First you have to differentiate between air carrier, which means you charge for your services and you are operating under either Part 121 or Part 135. IF you operate under Part 121 or Part 135 you are required to charge Federal ADAP EXCISE tax to fund the ADAP trust fund which funds infrastructure, parts of ATC and the FAA. However the fuel you purchase is EXEMPT from ADAP EXCISE taxes. Airlines are prohibited from showing you the EXCISE tax on your ticket, they can just include it in the ticket price. If you want to know however, there are ways to discover it, such as purchasing your ticket with loyalty miles, then you will pay the tax directly at the end of the transaction. IF you operate part 91, the Federal ADAP tax is INCLUDED in the price of each gallon of fuel you purchase. Because you are an EQUAL contributor to the system, you are entitled to be an "equal user". Meaning if you ask to land at KATL or KLAX you can use that facility. Now there are capacity controlled facilities, such as KLGA and KDCA where you need a slot, but there are a certain amount of GA slots allocated and yes you can get one. Equally so it is agreed the airport itself will not charge you a landing fee. However the FBO may charge you ramp fees, and other "junk fees". They can also jack their fuel price. The airport authority generally takes a cut of that action usually on the basis of their "triple net lease" with the FBO. The 1.51/thousand pounds gross landing weight fee at KATL only applies to air carrier aircraft. It does not apply to Part 91 aircraft. Last I checked the FBO fee at Signature at KATL was about 50 dollars for a GA airplane. If you want to have fun, I used to operate 4 airplanes that were sometimes Part 91 and sometimes Part 135. Keep track of that paperwork! Now you might want to ask how much money big airports take in. First of all their triple net leases charge a gross receipts levy about 50% higher than most malls. Which is why a bottle of water costs 2 bucks. Average concession fee (on top of gross receipts) is about 17-20%. Add in "visitor taxes" and your 200 dollar rent a car becomes 300 very quickly. To put this in perspective, the second highest grossing governmental entity in the state of CA behind the cities of 500,000 or more population is. the Los Angeles Department of Airports. The amount of money these large airports bring in is mind boggling and how little we get out them is a scandal.

KATL for example is not Verboten. In fact they will handle you quite nicely. I have been on both sides of the coin there. The problem is. ramp fees and 8 dollar fuel.

I have discovered now is the time to go to the hangar and get all those pesky jobs done on the Mooney. In the hangar you are pretty much in isolation and can get a lot of work done on your airplane since everyone is into "social distancing".. I highly recommend you take the opportunity to "self quarantine" yourself to your hangar. After this is over our airplanes will be awesome!

Western Airlines DC-10 hangar in LAX had a floor that "dropped away" from the gear. No jacking, just put stands under the airplane, drop the floor, swing the gear. What was nice about that is you did not need to move stands and platforms away from the plane.

I have had 5 complete failures. Three of them were intentional. When Lycoming came out with the O-320H, it was chewing up valve trains and no one understood what was going on, we had two 172's that blew up at 61 and 62 hours. Lycoming and Cessna was at a loss, so I made sure we got a warranty claim. I took the other three airplanes at 59 hours and flew them overhead the airport until they broke. Then dead sticked them down. I lost an O-360 on an RG Cardinal after the diaphragm on the Bendix RSA system quit. I put it down on top of a levee near Sacramento. I blew a P&W 2037 on a 757 out of SFO 1R right at rotation. Returned for landing on 28L uneventfully. Engine shelled itself out pretty good. Took them hours to clean up all the debris on the runway.

"DC9/MD80 seems to have slim wings/taila, so make sense they hate collecting ice, also I wondered if dumping big blocks of ice (say boots/heating action) is ok with those jet engines sitting far in the tail? ok to ingest hail but not sure about a large block of wing ice?" Actually the MD-80/90 series had a huge problem with environmental ice that would break off the inboard portions of the wings and slam the engines usually right at rotation. By environmental ice, I mean the kind of ice that would form on cold soaked wings descending into a humid environment. That is why you used to see them being deiced in Florida with 80 degree OAT. The interim solution was a requirement to inspect for ice on the inboard portion of each wing with a detector pole prior to each flight. That is why you used to see those funky ladders to lean up against the leading edge so you could "pole the wings". The ultimate fix was heater blankets that are glued to the inboard portion of the wings and operate continuously. American Airlines had one MD-80 out of DFW that had both engines slammed with ice. One engine failed and the other damaged, it barely made it around the pattern for a return landing. The airplane also has issues with icing on the outboard portions of the stab. The outer 3 feet of the stab are unprotected. Since the elevator is tab controlled it tends to float at low speeds, so they put a special "anti-float" tab on the outer portion of the elevator which sits right behind the outer 3 feet of unprotected stab, making the anti float tab less effective. The 737 NG and Max have similar issues, but obviously the engines are not in danger. Still been some violations for departing with ice on the wings, even in the summer. Typically the airplane comes in from a long leg, is refueled for a short leg and there is insufficient warm fuel to melt the environmental ice that had formed.

Ahhh, a familiar view. Thanks Ibra. Yeah the PA18 USA 35 airfoil will not ice fast but the stabilizer is a whole other story. The beauty of open or nearly open cockpit is you know where the airflow is going. The first time I flew my PA18 in IFR I lost the airspeed (tube broke under the panel) Since I had a Pre Max Aspen 1000 of course it quit too since the AHRS requires airspeed. So I flew on the standby attitude indicator and the CDI on the Garmin 430W, executed an RNAV approach. Not quite knowing my exact airspeed, I opened the side window, when the relative wind started coming in the window, I knew I was at approach speed. I call it the "shirt sleeve airspeed indicator". The worst airplanes for ice I have ever flown are the Aerostar and the DC-9/MD80. Skinny airfoils collect quickly. After flying the Mooney, like the aforementioned, it collects ice somewhat quickly, so I am glad I have FIKI. The trimming stab seems to be a plus versus what it could have been. However I don't recommend the "shirt sleeve airspeed indicator" for the Mooney