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I'm sick of big cities, I travel 14 days a month for my job frequently visit NY LA Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, atlanta, denver, dallas, houston, las vegas, Toronto, Montreal etc etc. I'm tired of shitty public transportation, how dirty everything is, getting harassed by panhandlers, how...

Spend about 2/3rd the year between Newark, Chicago, and Houston, but my domicile for tax purposes is an income tax free southern state (not tx) Most of my family though is in philly, boston, and the panhandle.

But isnt that essentially now. Even NY is sending vents to other states cause they didnt need them. Probably half of my family is in the medical field they are all essentially underworked or on part time status cause no one is doing doctor visits and medical procedures are essentially pushed...

I wonder what the endgame is. We locked down to flatten the curve now that the overloaded hospitals never materialized its shifted to stay locked down or 2nd wave hits. The cases are going to go up no matter what if we open so do we just stay shutdown for 18 months? Its also stupid how even...

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Purchased some QT halos. Not TSO certified but if I get a fed onboard I?ll just use my David Clark?s. QTs are light better noise reduction and cooler for those hot Southwestern US days. Worth every penny. Plus I?m too cheap for Bose A20s

Wasn't what I expected. Dude slowly rolled forward to the employee entrance ppl moved then backup arrived and people dispersed. Probably should have just stopped in front then deployed pepper spray etc. Would have been better for optics. Assemble protest etc more power to you and your cause...

Light side of medium. I do ribeyes 3 times a week on the George Forman. 3 min on that and nice pink center put some cajun seasoning on it.... Good stuff

Yeah memory items or "immediate action items" are stuff you have to have memorized because you don't have time to run a QRH(quick reference handbook) Stuff like "engine fire on ground" or trim runaway have steps associated with them. THeres not a lot of them usually 5-10 per aircraft. Hitting...

MCAS doesn't work on auto pilot only when hand flying. The engines are mounted slightly forward of where they are on the non max's (for ground clearance) so to keep the feel the same they added MCAS (On underwing mounted planes theres a nose up moment whenever thrust is added) I hate to...

So MCAS right now is a bit of a bogeyman. The FAA certification rules are kind of dumb in that they don't really allow updating platforms(look at GA engines we are still using 1920s tech no electronic ignitions etc) so companies have to keep coming up with workarounds in order to keep the same...

Woodford reserve and bulleit bourbon are my go to drinks. Don't like beer and don't like chickdrinks (fireball style stuff) wine haven't found one I like. They seem to be too strong or way too weak.

The industry has shifted from captain is god, gear up, shut up, don't forget my coffee, to a heavily CRM based, AQP training, checklist, procedure driven type of flying. Not sure what type of flying she was in but it doesn't sound like any kind of 121(airline) operation. I'd say right now...

So I learned to fly after college, I was working in sales didn't care for it and finally made enough money I could pay for flying without loans. I joined a flying club out of a little grass airfield and got my private in a cessna 150 aerobat. Flew privately for fun for 2 years then decided to...

So a note. In aviation everything is not all sunshine and roses. when times are good (like now with all the mandatory retirements coming up for the next 10 years) careers go smoothly. An airline going bankrupt or an industry wide event(9/11) can fuck you over hard. Airlines are union if you...