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Same, especially out in the small towns. Even my neighborhood there is group of kids out all summer hustlin, raking leaves, mowing lawns, picking up sticks, etc... However, I haven't seen those little shits lately...need them over here to shovel the snow! I'm too old for that shit 🤣. But seriously, these kids are going places.

Great to hear the pilot go out! Since everyone is ok. PACAF/CC right now...

Will do. Our best prospect right now is a strip nearby that the owner left to his nephew. Nephew flies but isn't sure he wants to keep it. He's checking with the township to see what can be done wrt breaking up the land into smaller lots. We're finding that that biggest show stoppers to building a grass strip or building houses on one, is the township bylaws, especially with how much land can be broken up. Around here you pretty much can't break off anything less than 5 acres and most townships have a limit on how many parcels can be broken off. I wish them the best. It certainly can be done, but unfortunately there is just the added layer of red tape around airports. A buddy built his own hangar on a local airport that has a living space inside. Dude is loaded but even he said it was a costly and painful process.

There is always a hater out there...

I don't know the current situation, but prior to rona, the FAA was starting to crack down on hangars. If the airport had received Federal dollars, they were going through and ensuring that hangars we're being utilized to hangar aircraft. They started forcing evictions of people who were using to the store shit or run unrelated businesses. Here's hoping that is actually happening. Anyway, make friends with the airport owner and you'll get a hangar lol. I'm not joking...he who owns the hangars/airport, controls the list... I had a relatively easy time getting a hangar for my first plane, but it's getting tighter in my area. The guys I sold my plane to are keeping it in my hangar as I sub-let it to them. I'm keeping it for my next plane lol. A group of friends and I are trying to get around all that by building our own grass strip and putting up our forever homes/hangars. Just need someone to be willing to part with the right 30-40 acres lol.

Yup, they can only have those cheap fares so long. After they've created a name and burned through an asston of cash, it's time to make some money. Then the fees show up and people lose their mind. Turns out it costs money to move people by air, but people think air travel is a born right, so they lose their minds when they have to pay more. Not long ago a buddy wad like why is it so damn expensive to fly these days? I looked and I could go round trip from DTW to LAX for $500 or CUN for $600. I'm like seems cheap for what you're getting... which is your ass parked in a chair in the sky, moving at 500 mph to a place that wasn't even reachable for 99% of Americans just a few decades ago lol. It's probably still cheaper than it's ever been to fly.

Lol just ran into a pilot training buddy and asked him his plans. He plans on getting out at 20 and said he was about to start dealing with the O-6 board BS. I'm like can't you just not do anything? I guess that's not how it works on AD? Anyway he said writing to the board to ask to not be promoted didn't even work for one of his friends 🤣. Given his record and what's going on right now, there is no way he's not promoted, but he's still bailing at 20. Crazy times.

Badass disc golf course...lol. You from Colorado? 🤣

Wouldn't be surprised if the bolts weren't torqued down correctly. We're not the only ones facing a shortage with a bunch of newbs on the line. Last year, I had a nose wheel fall off the bearing on taxi out. Both wheels had been changed that morning in ATL and the old timer mech at BNA was certain they weren't torqued down properly. Thankful it did happen rolling down the runway. Reminded me of another funny (kinda) story. Picking a jet up from the depot at Hill, I struck up a conversation with one of the mechanics. I asked the guy if he had been a crew chief or something in the AF? His answer...Nope, 9 months ago I was a carpenter building houses. Suddenly I wasn't so excited about exiting VFR and staying low through Weber canyon below a cloud deck.

Golf courses should have been closed long before they waged a jihad on the aero clubs.

I have dogs, like flight attendants have cats....LOTS of them. They make lots of poop and I don't want it stinking up my washed/waxed trash bin!

Ah the locked bin was yours?!?!? You didn't think that single lock was going to keep me from lifting a corner of the lid and dropping the 💩, did you? Ima drop the dog poop at that bin even harder now!

Funny, that's pretty much the same pic I have for when Delta calls for a Greenslip.

As always, South Park shacks it!

Sorry dawg, I didn't feel like carrying that poop around my entire walk.

This isn't the military, you don't have to finish shit. If a player gets a career ending/hindering injury during a bowl game, is the college going to insure them for their potential career earnings losses? How much does the college make off of a bowl game, how much of that goes to the individual players? I'm not surprised the FSU players said fuck it, it was a jacked up decision and since they're not playing for a title, why risk it on a dumb bowl that doesn't mean shit? Then again, I was one of those who had zero problems with Manziel making money off his autographs and appearances. How much money did A&M make of him playing for them? Why shouldn't he be able to get in on the action? Too bad he was a d-bag and fucked it all away.

Wow, 4 or 5 familiar names on the list of original signatories, most of which who are all still serving. Strong message!

WTF is with all the command directed Q3s? I've gathered that the heavies seem to use them as punishment, but I know we didn't have a single one in my career at my squadron. A keg/equivalent booze and stand up in front of the squadron to brief the fuck up. Why put so many black marks on your people, when there are better ways to get your point across? I feel for these dudes who have to explain a Q3 in an interview when they can't say that their boss was the lead rower in the douche canoe.

That process is one of the most painful processes ever, especially when it happens during a pandemic! In the case I dealt with, it was a complete waste of everyone's time. But it "had to be done," because reasons (regs with not even an ounce of leeway). His packet was sent up with every CC on base recommending he be retired in his current rank...and over 2 years later we got the response agreeing with the recommendation. I would love to know how many man-hours were blown on something we all knew would happen. So fucking stupid.

Damn, seems like one heck of a drop! For the EA-18 folks, is there are standard follow on for them, or is it just a wild card where they'll end up?

Much like myself, it's the miles, not the years.

I really like to boil it down to who is the bigger douche canoe. In this scenario, Russia is the biggest douche canoe of them all. They’re the lead rower in said douche canoe. I don't like douche canoes, much less the lead rower. This is a pretty good platform in which to build a rock solid foreign policy plan and national defense strategy.

Ima just interject here for a moment and reiterate my belief that the coasties are the smartest among us. Went through the USVI on my way to a BVI for vacation and noticed 4 or 5 CG helos there. I just saw a post of FB for coastie promotion while they were "deployed" to the Bahamas. They get to do their mission a lot more than everyone else. The few coasties I've known have saved quite a few people in their day and none of them had to spend a day in CENTCOM (though I know some do). A squadronmates brother retired from the CG as an O-5...dudes assignments sounded like one vacation hotspot after another. Also, there is a CG station in my city and they have the best booze selection of any exchange I've ever seen lol. Anywho, back to your regularly scheduled programing, hoping the C-27 tail doesn't fall off.

Best of luck to Van's, they've done more to advance GA than most. I have a buddy building a 12 right now who works for Van's remotely, will be interesting to see how it's going for him. Thankfully, I think he has the entire kit already.

This! I was all about helping someone move on, I'd make phone calls, write recs and happily help you on your way. However, you're still gonna have to keep pulling your weight until you 1288 yourself off my books.