Unfortunately you don’t “feel” a stall in a 500,000 pound airplane...it’s not a Cessna 172.

The worst thing that ever happened to insurance/medicine is when employers added it as a benefit. It allowed medicine/hospitals/doctors to inflate their prices and charge almost anything they want.

Growing up in Michigan on Lake St. Clair and a USCG presence, some really dumb kids called in several fake rescues involving police, USCG and others. The Coast Guard set up a triangulated VHF direction finder. They caught the kids and billed their parents $700,000 plus for the summer of unnecessary search and rescue…

I will tell you, it didn’t happen as you remember.

Disney Studios made $1.7 billion dollars from $7.2 billion in revenue. Do I feel bad...nope. Did I spend $66 plus another $40 on stuff to take my family to a Disney movie last year, yup and more than once.

You want people to tell stories of when an airline pilot made a decision based on years of experience and an intimate understanding of the airplane systems and performance, to not land, reject a takeoff, take a delay or deviate around a thunderstorm? All in the name of safety? Your safety? And the safety of the…

So that didn’t happen. No reports from FAA or ExpressJet or Envoy.

Weight and balance is a very real thing...even on a tiny Airbus 320. See National Airlines flight 102.

Yes.

Night vision...but you still can’t turn off the rear reading lights from the front.

When I lived in Columbus, Ohio there was a guy that got busted for driving his little pickup truck with a store bought strobe light (think college dorm strobe light) that he used to trigger the lights.

Is $32,200 a lot of money for a dealership?

Unfortunately...it crashed leaving Las Vegas Cars and Coffee.

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