Great, they’ll be going to a full subscription model, making sure that you pay many times the price of a print manual if you want to refer to the on-line version over several years. Another checkbox filled in the “you don’t own it, you license it” method of rent seeking.

A lower capacity for holding moisture. Humidity is the percentage of moisture in the air relative to the maximum amount it could hold at a given temperature. If you take a specific volume of air at, say, 50% humidity at 32F and take the same volume of air at 50% humidity and 68F, if you then take all of the moisture…

I had a Mazda 626 that had a separate button to turn on the AC and didn’t turn it on automatically if you switched the output to the dash vents. IIRC all the other cars I’ve owned did automatically turn on the AC when you switched to defrost.

Parsec is not a measure of time!

Those light standards made me nervous. There’s also the possibility of power lines or such crossing the highway, which can be pretty much invisible until you are right on them.

A pilot would say that he pranged the plane.

Pfffft! Try landing it in the Hudson river.

Considering what the general public knows about light aviation, hitting the brakes, which is a pretty instinctive response, would probably be the typical response.

Story at 11?

I suspect that the clutch on a race car might be a little less forgiving than the one on my Mustang GT.

I LOVE riding in small planes, it’s like your own personal rollercoaster.

Oh come on, Spitfire pilots loved that plane on the ground!

I remember something I read years ago, when MS Flight Simulator was the big dog in the business. A guy who had never been behind the controls of a plane spent a lot of hours on a flight simulator before joining the AF. The instructors were so impressed with how quickly this student advanced in early flight training…

4th gear: And there will be a monthly software maintenance fee for all that with every car purchased. If you stop paying, an OTA update will brick the car, since they will deem a car without proper updates would be dangerous to operate.

I’d recommend running the car at least once every two weeks. If you’re worried about the battery discharging in between runs, a solar charger (if outdoor kept, obviously) is a good solution. Your basic 5W solar charger works out to less than 1/2 of a amp, and that’s only during peak daylight hours. So the chances of ov…

The one in the article says hydraulic, so no worm gear. There are scissor jacks with electric drives, so a good old worm gear for them.

Congratulations! My dad was a private pilot so as a kid I got to fly with him many times. Actually getting your hands on the controls is a huge thrill. I never got a license myself, so I envy you. Stay safe!

Thanks for that feedback. There’s a lot of people giving uninformed/partially informed/miss-informed opinions out there (I’m in there somewhere), so it’s good to hear from someone who actually knows something about how stuff (in this case training) works.

Actually, I probably need new glasses. I went back and looked at the images. If I zoom in, you can see the chevrons. In the original size that I looked at, it appeared that they didn’t have chevrons.

Counterpoint. You’re going to have EV F150s and Silverados. But you’re not pulling a 15k pound trailer with one of those, or with any current F150. My contention is that we’ll still have gas/diesel/CNG/LNG in some combination for long haul transport and for farm applications. That’s something that politicians don’t…