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tug his airplane someplace out of sight! ...where did I park my airplane again? Yes around my parts unless a car is really out of the way a parked car should have the keys in it - like on the dash easy to see.

I think the same thing mostly - but the motivated will be able to keep their aircraft going for some time as the less motivated give up their aircraft for dead and they become part donors. I used to think that piston aircraft would end when the fuel disappeared.

I wonder what the Grumman tiger woujd have been like if it eventually got a 300hp continental like the Mooney did? I think the coolest thing about the grummans is that sliding canopy and the idea of flying with the canopy open and your elbow tanging out in the wind. That’s the one thing the Mooney doesn’t do better.

That seems well said. So it’s about how lawyers operate and our legal system for such things much more about how the Faa operates that is key. So I interpret - those with big assets can’t afford to buy cheap parts.

Well I have a Tks rocket now for about 12 or 13 years. Love it! Feel free any questions public or pm my experiences ownership or pilotage. e

I have all those things.

Wow!!!! This is awesome! For all of us then

Snakes on a Plane! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65188013

Wohoo! But wait - what do you mean? my 1981 Mooney M20K was certified in? 1979?

That’s fantastic! my only regret is my airplane is 1981… hopefully it becomes a rolling window program. e

This a proof that ai is easily distinguishable from humans until the ai can make stubborn irrelevant and off topic snide remarks it won’t be convincing.

We are in a changing era. I will be shocked if in 50 years anyone owns a car and if any land vehicles are driven by humans and there will be a great deal of automated air vehicles. I wouldn't venture to say what they will look like.

I agree! But I didn't want to get into the ache's and pains and other injuries of sports - but instead I decide just to talk about mortality. Couch potatoes get all sorts of aches and pains too. Anyway - choose your evil or as you said, pick the set of resulting risks that ...

I agree! This is currently the most difficult environment which is AI driven cars must negotiate with irrational human driven cars. I think this will be a brief period - what 30? 50 years? When will it be that humans driving cars (and airplanes) are outlawed outright to be replaced 100% by computers. The the computers can negotiate directly with each other.

Self driving certainly has its bugs and it is not ready for prime time in my opinion. But it will be. Humans make errors. The AI self driving makes errors. The question is which makes errors at a higher rate. Not can computers make zero errors. There is no such thing as errorless, but there is such a thing as statistically safer. Case in point. Sitting on the coach causes all sorts of disease of sloth. Running as an activity mitigates to a large degree those diseases but brings on its own problems for mortality. Some people get run over as pedestrians while jogging, and that rarely happens when on the coach watching the price is right. Some people get sudden heart attacks while running - which hard to say if that would have happened to the same person congenitally sooner or later with the life style of couch potato. But in any case its a matter of choose your evil.

Computer code writers have an advantage that fighter pilots do not. A single fighter pilot is asked to make a decision on a short time scale. Sometimes a critical decision must occur in under a second. Computer code writers have the complex task of writing robust codes to handle all such scenarios and clearly it is hard and errors can creep in all of sorts, from misunderstandings, straight up mistakes, oversights, syntax errors, bugs, and on and on. But the computer programmer does get lots of time (relatively) to check, re-check and debug, AND teams of computer programmers have ways of cross checking and testing each other to diminish the many different kinds of errors.

I was wondering that.

What is it? What's that mean the CAFE Mooney?

Oh no..! If only I could get my college admissions essays back. THIS MORNING we on the faculty senate - a good citizenry but inane activity that is both necessary and maddening in self governance associated with academia, we got a corporate looking almost meaningless two page THING from one of our administrators full of business gobldegoop words - and one of the faculty said it was clearly written by Chatgpt - in gest because it had so many big words but literally like no content. So it was an in jest insult - the new insult of the ages. Tell someone they sound like chatgpt.

Well said a lot of what you said - but you said what I and a lot of us at my work place have been saying and noticing - chatgpt sounds good but if you look closely it tends to sometimes make spectacular errors with full confidence. Interestingly at my university I am recruited to be on our AI steering committee - what to do with chatgpt and the likes with students thinking they can hand in a chatgpt essay and no one will notice. But also how to useful teach how to use this newly coming of age stuff just as we might use a google search, but critically. Sometimes reading chatgpt responses that are often smoothly written in terms of English and sometimes nondescript in response - it feels like listening to a well trained slick politician who is trained in the art of yapping convincingly while saying nothing. Can't we please just replace the politicians with AI instead of replacing the pilots and surgeons with AI?

I bet. abyway a predator drone is a large turbo prop unmanned aircraft isn’t it? Bigger than a Mooney. So why not a 737?

Exactly I mean we have pilots in Virginia fly predator drones over Afghanistan.

Has anyone here looked closely at some of the popular top tier AI now in the public sphere - they make interesting answers and they make fantastic errors with utter "confidence". I am not excited about an AI handling general emergencies. Sure - flying when everything is right - but not when things are bad. Potentially a ground human pilot may be about to over see many airplanes just in case.

I know that. We are paying mostly for $100 for bits of metal and $1800 for paper work and legitimate profit motive. Still / it’s striking.

But that little pile of bits of sheet metal bent and with holes - 2k? 1k? $250?