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Just carry 2 of the roll-a-boards of your choice, with the 2nd on the J-hook or strap. In the second one, put a headset bag (ASA's is good) with all the flying stuff, and use the rest of the space for the travelling kitchen. You'll have room for the personal pepper mill you left out. :)

I have one, and the LW. It's like a travelpro, but it has the lifetime warranty. Which is important, because I've needed to use that warranty every few years. Which also means that you need a second bag, because it will be gone for a few months while they fix it. I'm using the B&R right...

St John was nice, but expensive. I personally preferred Tortola.

You really want to get the prop dynamically balanced on the airplane. It should only be a few hundred bucks, but it will more than likely pay for itself. The more vibration the prop makes, the more you are going to be paying for spinners, engine mounts, exhaust -- not to mention fatigue for you.

For what these managers are doing, those numbers are not unreasonable. Could you find someone cheaper? Maybe - but then a bunch of employees would have been paid zero a while ago. These are not jobs that have very good job security.

I used to tow gliders next to a drop zone. Dangerous enough already. When the wingsuits were in the air, I shut down the tow plane and would not fly until they were on the ground.

I just packed up my home and left for, I don't know, a while? Only thing I miss are the bikes. Will be the first thing I buy in the new town.

If you can get an MEI and find a gig doing twin instruction, that might help in the part 91 world. My friends, more qualified than me, for the most part aren't finding anything right now. And I realize the advice to teach in twins is tough, as there isn't much multi instruction going on...

No gig yet, but it was only about 8 months ago I left the IT world to try flying for a living. The IT hiring climate isn't much better right now, so I'm not missing much there. Going from part time to full time CFI has been great. Hope it doesn't last forever, as much as I like it, you can't...

Eh, paying for more multi time hasn't changed anything for me or the other CFIs around here with ATP minimums, there just hasn't been much hiring anywhere.

On the maintenance side, it is a huge change. Qualifications to work on LSAs vs a regular A&P is weeks vs. years. And for a lot of fairly simple maintenance on simple, light aircraft, it probably is over regulated.

Yeah, the choice of RV-7 was easy, based on there being so many of them out there flying already (or RV-9, same thing, different wing). Easy to find out how to do anything. The tech is easy, go with Garmin or Dynon. It is already way cheaper since there are experimental versions of everything...

Probably should! I'll find some and put one up. Eventually. I've got a lot going on right now.

RV-7 taildragger

Despite the terrible progress I've made on building my own airplane, the process has made me much better at seeing problems on the certificated ones.

I'm only surprised that other industries haven't caught on to this yet. Sandwich artist? 3 year's salary liquidated damages for the art education. Coffee Barista? $100k for the invaluable ServSafe course...

Adjusted for inflation, that's about $65k now vs. 1983.

QR code to add an eSIM to your phone. Most support getting data from multiple providers at the same time. Also how I get cell data on my iPad.

For international, I've been really happy with the eSims from the Mobimatter app. A 365-day data plan for 50GB or so, for $50. I travel a lot and haven't used that much international data in year. And they work in the US, so if I'm getting bad coverage from my carrier (t-mobile), I can...

When I've been flying over Tampa lately night, it has been the same voice on clearance, ground, tower, final and approach. "You want a clearance on the ground? That's funny. Try center in the air...,"

From PHL, zero chance anything VHF is getting propagation anywhere near NYC.

Not my area of expertise. Whatever they deployed, it may well have five nines availability. That's still over 5 minutes of outages per year. So it could go down for 90 seconds three times, which sounds like what has happened. SDWAN or not, they would still need to eliminate single points of...

Well, I can't just tell instrument students "hey, maybe in a few years you can get that rating."

Getting a clearance on the ground part 91 has been more the exception than the rule in Florida for the last 3 or 4 months.

I think we should at least look at tweaking lost comms procedures. Because they seem to be getting more common, and not from the airplane side of the house.

Most fun I've ever had flying, the J3 at Jack Brown's, by far. Definitely the only time in my life I've wished a checkride could last longer.

Auto companies probably would do it now, but there are some laws that make them supply parts for 10 years or so. Plus, they mostly don't make any of the parts themselves anyway. Software dependency and "less burdensome regulation" will change that, I'm sure.

They only started killing products after Jassy took over.

My fear is the same reason that Apple, or Sonos, or Amazon will brick older devices remotely. They don't want to pay support engineers for a second longer than it takes to get the product shipped. And then, they want to make more sales, so they intentionally drop support and do things to...

I'm in Florida, it isn't great, but there is slightly more than zero out there. You can get a gig as a CFI/CFI-I. You probably won't fly much, or be able to live off of doing it. I was flying with someone today who was contemplating bringing on another one. You pretty much need the...

I'm glad I have that seaplane rating? Staying in piston singles is still kind of a lateral move though...

There aren't a lot of jobs out there for 1500tt CFIs either right now.

I don't think the math ever worked out, where the model was essentially to train 8 of your replacements. Eventually, you are gonig to have trouble supplying enough students. Or, you are going to flood the market with too much supply.

Not Real Genius? Chris Knight was pretty funny, we watched that in college a lot.

Diamond hands, bro.

I'm very thankful for the, well, bunches of people that have been there to talk from here. And offer guidance (mostly good, occasionally less so). It is helpful to me to remember that flying isn't my life, and I don't have to do it, and at the end of the day, no one is making me do it and I...

I'm actually home on a Saturday night, how did that happen? And don't have to be up early tomorrow.

Well, there could be two NJC's? Why not? Like, the spirit of the whole thing is networking. Being "officially sanctioned" has felt kind of secondary to me, but I'll defer to the benevolent dictator.

NJC Euro edition? Amsterdam? Toulouse? Berlin?

With 4 days to go, I think that Pirate Kitty has taken an early lead. But anything can happen.