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Quote: Parker_Woodruff hmm. Maybe I'm an anomoly. I am conservative and I don't like Bill O'Reilly.

Quote: Parker_Woodruff You talk circles around me. I'm gonna have to plead the 5th.

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sounds like you "cleaned" it. no paperwork needed.

Quote: jetdriven Interesting offshoot, from the offshoot. You know up until the 1930s most every american city had streetcars. Look at old city photos. GM and others bought up over 1000 streetcar lines and converted them to (GM) buses. Later, many of these lines were abandoned when no longer profitable, which resulted in no public transportation options where there one were. Capitalism unbridled. They have "A right to make a profit" regardless who suffers. Which is where regulation for the public good comes in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal

are these the Iridium plugs?

Parker was around back then, Jetdriven. Tell him Parker. Tell him how the horseless carriage ruined man's relationship with the horse and it was all down hill from there... I got your back, go ahead.

...just checked. It's a logbook entry by the A&P who checked my work.

Quote: fantom True, especially the last two, when Republicans lost their way and starting acting like Democrats burning taxpayer futures for "stuff we need". The voting public woke them up, and there's another alarm clock coming next year. God save us from out of touch politicians and verbose type "A" lawyers.

Quote: Mazerbase My 86 252 needs both recognition lights and the left wing tip strobe replaced. The recognition lights are very hot and can melt the lenses very quickly on the ground. I have been considering changing to an LED system but my first estimate was over $3,200. Anybody have any good suggestions?

Quote: Parker_Woodruff Compromising is what got us into this mess. When you compromise, you spend too much money. Whaddoya know... 14.X Trillion in nat'l debt.

I think one of the problems is that people are uninformed about how the banking system works. It's admittedly a a dry and somewhat complicated subject. So they don't bother to learn about it from "soup to nuts". One of the other problems is that it seems to be human nature to come up with a narrative that suits your ideals and then seek out opinion and or cherry pick information to support it.

For those of you within Mooney range of south Texas, the instructor that I'd reccomend for the practical test is Dylan Foley of foleyaero.com. He's a former Mooney factory test pilot and at 25 years old, one of the most level-headed and mature people I know. We became close friends during the process, but don't hold that against him. I told Dylan I had no maximum limit on the number of hours to get me there, I wanted real IMC and all of the procedures plus some Mooney specific procedures to know the limits of the Ovation and that I wasn't up for just passing the practical test; I fly with my wife and daughter. Dylan told me he refused to work with anyone that wanted to be done within a set number of hours because the people are different, the planes are different and the number of days between lessons are always different. Several people told me to not use Charlie MacDugal of San Antonio, as an examiner for the IR because he had a high fail rate. Again, I told these folks that I wasn't interested in just getting a rating. Besides, Charlie tested me on my private ticket and seemed entirely predictable if you knew the PTS. Dylan called Charlie when we felt we had covered our tracks with sufficient redundancy, and set up some times. Charlie and I met for the oral exam and made ourselves comfortable at the local FBO lobby. Charlie pulled out his notebook computer with the IACRA link and took up where Dylan left off (the IACRA information required by each is prescribed by federal law). After several hours of questions designed to determine whether you get the big picture along with the details we discussed the flight plan. Then we were ready for the practical test--or so we thought. I made an approach planning error and told Charlie about it and discontinued for several days. The error was minor and Charlie was very accomodating, signed me off on the oral and rescheduled. Several days later, Charlie signed me off and said I was over-prepared. Not perfect, but over-prepared. Just what it takes to be ready. I'll keep working towards perfecton because that's what IFR really means. Thanks Dylan! PS: I used the King online IFR course and was well prepared for the practical. I also recomend the Sporty's IPC video lessons on the iPad because it provides a good summary.

Jeev, 1YG has all the speed mods so it'll be a show stopper when you're done. What's the time and $ cost range and options (single color, two, three colors...) Regarding Dylan Foley: I'll jump to the IFR Students thread...

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...By the way I am only 38 and bought my first plane 10 years ago, without a government subsidy!

Quote: jetdriven Whatever happened to good old fashionaed accountability. You get drunk. You fly into a chuirch full of nuns and baby seals. You cannot be sued for damages because of corporate trickery, yet I can. The fundamental problem with a corporation is it has no body to imprison and no life to take if it does wrong.

1) "Taxpayer" makes my point better--Tea Party Neocons are getting paid by taxpayers to simply sit up there and contribute nothing but criticism. It's like trying to go to lunch with someone that hates your suggestions but makes none of their own. 2) I don't like to label individuals, but if I helped you find your way, your welcome. 3)This thread is obvously not the place to "be left alone."

Are we going to reward/retain the Tea Party NeoCons for doing nothing and submitting no new proposals or does that cricism only apply to people who don't yet have government paid health plans?

Quote: jetdriven Can someone describe "conservative" anymore? Cause last time I checked, Bush and Co. raised the national debt by double, or 5 Trillion dollars Plus the legacy of 2 wars nobody wants and tax cuts we cannot afford. So what are they conserving?

My CPA and estate planning attorney said I could incorporate into a subsidiary of my other two vertically integrated business entities and then rent my plane from myself and write off all my state taxes, maintenence expenses and fees that didn't get paid by my clients under travel expenses. It would also protect my other non-exempt assets from a judgment if I left a smoky hole in someone' roof and my coverage was insufficient to satisfy a settlement or verdict? Anyone else doing this? --how's this for being back on topic?

...hacky sack is sort of a sport.

...flying is not a sport.

sorry... I was looking for another one on a web site and ran across that Conservative/Liberal quote and grabbed it. I "sit" corrected. And deserve that bloody nose for being reckless. I was looking for the author of the quote "you may not like the way I do things, and sometimes I don't either. But I like the way I do things better than the way you do nothing." It's clearly applicable to those who promote criticism over offering any substantial contribution. (And I would not claim the quote itself for my own.) As For the Fox comment. I don't watch Fox nor MSNBC; I don't believe the divisive media is doing us any favors and the less we watch, the better--they only make money from sponsors when we tune in. I get suspicous when I see several talking heads adopt the same phraseology within a day or two of someone else coining a new catch phrase such as "job-creators." It's obvious pandering. Like it or not, Congress ceases to function when people take oaths to "not ever raise taxes." I believe signing such a document before taking an oath to carry out the function of a legislator is a violation of the Oath of Office. The only reason they made it in to office to start with is that 100% of the 14% of the Tea Party voters showed up. When did taking away a temporary tax break amount to a tax hike anyways? We hear alot about "big government" and all I can say without writing a total diatribe is that we pilots love the fact that we don't pay user fees for our big government ATC and federally funded airports. But we never like looking at our own benefits, it's always the other people that are sponging off the goverment. Here's the rub and there's really no ther practical way of putting it : I'll be taxed more by the Obama plan that those of you still flying 20+ year old planes. And I should! This country has given me great opportunity and succes. Yes, I worked for it, but the only thing that has stayed consistant for 30 years is the income gap has grown: the rich are richer and poor are poorer. I'm no Herman Cain, but I do have the facts to back this up: if it wasn't for taxpayer money that assisted me to go to college I wouldn't be in a position to pay higher taxes! Nonetheless, your observations have had more real thought and less blather than some of the others. Any ideas on the author of the quote that set this off? My Bartlett' is in my home office.

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.” ? Winston S. Churchill