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The guy that taught me to tow in the Pawnee, died in a Pawnee. Dragging rags though, which to me, is even more dangerous than towing gliders.

Not teaching in gliders these days, but as a CFIG - I can sort of understand why. I found it far more difficult than teaching in airplanes.

RF is witchcraft. AC is great if you don't want 3 inch thick wires, or need to step voltages up or down.

Definitely spoiled me towing in Pawnees. And then the club got a Cessna, because taildragger pilots were getting hard to find that the insurance company liked. I do not like towing in a Cessna.. The Pawnee is everything you want in a tug though.

Well done! It's probably the hardest thing in flying to do. Not that I really remember mine, but I absolutely remember all of them I've signed off :) Everything after it is pretty easy.

In my experience with students, the ones willing to make mistakes and learn from them progress a lot faster than students that try to do everything perfectly the first time.

Everything @killbilly said. And no, you aren't overthinking it. It's a good question.

If it helps anyone out, here's the code I wrote to move an electronic logbook copy from one that was somewhat popular years ago. For being able to move data, ForeFlight is still probably your best choice, it exports in a format that is trivial for me (or anyone else) to write code to import...

Florida has refused to accept Federal money to expand Medicaid. So, in addition to being a poorly paid flight instructor, you need to also be blind, disabled, over 65 or pregnant to be eligible here.

If you qualify for a 1st class medical, you won't qualify for Medicaid in Florida.

COVID - or why I spent way too much money on a Magic Sing karaoke machine. Which has been used perhaps twice since the world stopped being closed.

I have several. But the stuff A&Ps do can and does impact radios.

Well, that's pretty much why I want an to be an A&P. Often I'm not satisfied with the quality of work I see, and am mostly powerless to do much about it. Especially in electrical and radio systems. (My background is electrical engineering, so I am probably seeing RF issues that most A&Ps don't.)

As I understand it, you are free to do all of the MX on experimentals whether you built them or not, only the condition inspection requires an A&P or repairmen cert. For a light sport experimental, it only takes a 2 day class to get a repairman cert for an aircraft you own but didn't build. I...

The most common sense thing the FAA has done in years. Also, the Coleal letter [1]. While I don't test the limits of it, it does make me feel better about looking into something that doesn't look right on my airplane. (It basically says, you can check tire pressure even though part 43 appendix...

For the building end of it, EAA tech counselors, and for the airworthiness cert, it is a DAR that looks at it. The building part is enough to get a repairmen cert. I already have A&P's that I trust check my work though. For airplane construction, a lot of A&Ps don't do fabrication work...

I don't own a single Snap-On tool. Yardstore, Pan American, ATS -- already enough money. The pneumatic rivet squeezer an yokes are worth every penny :)

Question about logging time - a lot of the work I do isn't under the supervision of an A&P (experimental construction, part 43 Appendix A exceptions, etc.) Should I have an A&P verify that, or are the airplane logbook entries good enough? I haven't been able to find much guidance on that.

I'm not an A&P (yet), but it should be do-able. The A&P IA's that I've mostly worked with did exactly the same thing. I would like to get an A&P someday, in as much as I have an AMT logbook that I'm really trying to keep up to date. The experience requirement is 30 months experience for an...

It would reduce costs by at least $500 billion a year. So probably an extra $4,000/year per taxpayer. But most of us would no longer be paying $10 to $20,000 per year in insurance premiums, either directly or indirectly.

I'm one of those potential new hires, that will be retired sitting on a beach well before that chart ends...

Best of luck, must be scary and exciting at the same time. My last day in the tech world is getting closer and closer. Let me know if I can ever answer any questions. It's a long road, but the experience can be awesome.

I pay a lot of taxes now, and get zero healthcare for it. Going to a single payer system, and still spending the most per capita in the world on healthcare, would still save us $1.5 trillion dollars per year. (The US spends about $4.5 trillion in total now). There's probably a lot of other...

I apparently have nothing better to do either.

Sigh of relief, I'll stop looking for a lost one. Thank god I went electronic 15 years ago.

It is probably going to be hard to get a job at another Red Lobster. My better half ran restaurants for half her life. She hired 5 people for every job, expecting to fire 4 of them. Try not to get fired from a flying job, and I think you will be fine.

Rematch at darts - loved that place. Thanks for the ride! @thepedroid also managed to make it to fly my airplane the week before, thanks for making that happen @derg.

https://foreflight.com/campaigns/30days/ 30 day free trial, enough to create a logbook :)

The one built into foreflight is decent. And it handles endorsements pretty well. You can get a few bucks off Foreflight by joining SAFE or NAFI. If you are cheap, there is an Excel template from Foreflight to import from. You could just fill out the spreadsheet and submit that...

I was flying into SPG about that time. Weather was about as close to perfect as you can get. Light winds out of the north and good visibility.

I've been pretty lucky - I haven't needed an airplane job to pay the mortgage, so there's a been plenty of time to enjoy the things that not everyone appreciates. Bumming around the airport. Turning wrenches. Flying clapped out aircraft with terrible paint. At least everything is still new...

Preventing a war by deterring it is a whole lot cheaper than fighting one. Europe learned that lesson, the US should as well.

I'm sure it is possible to be a CFI in 7 months, but most of that is probably out of your control. I had a student wait over 8 months last year due to DPE discontinuances and availability. The situation is somewhat better right now (still not great). Right now, I would suggest getting the...

It's a tough job, that requires learning a lot, for relatively low pay. And I think that the regulatory structure is long overdue to be modernized. There should probably be an electrical and avionics component on par with airframe and powerplant. Piston and turbine should probably be a...

I've been doing some of the "owner-assisted-wrench-turning" lately, all I've learned is that whoever writes the Garmin manuals is an idiot, or paid by the word, or both. With a bonus for year's old typos that have still have material consequences. The younger A&Ps don't seem to be much...

One thing that sales teaches you - the first side to name a number generally loses. Once you say what you want, you aren't getting a better offer until you negotiate with someone else for a new gig. Doesn't matter if it is days off/money/free dry cleaning. You are far better off getting an...

Even without caution, who wants to be camping in a storm? Anyway, if there is a tornado warning, where is the tornado shelter? Assuming they are next to it, sounds fine. We just had tornados here the other day. I wouldn't intentionally be in a tent for that. Of course, I'm sure they've...

Here I am!

If I remembered to do that every time, I could probably remember the last 3 years as well. My hack - look at the transactions on my HSA account for the last 3 years. I don't know many doctors that work for free...

Hit 1,001 hours today - took the selfie on the ground.