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Not sure I agree...while expired tags and non-working tail lights are often used by bad cops to justify pretextual stops, if you didn't pay for your registration what are the odds you don't have insurance either. I do not agree on parking with a caveat, at an expired meter...absolutely. But in my hood I see soccer mom's park in the fire lane of the SmallMart and run inside to grab an item or two. I also see the same thing with handicapped parking...didn't get to worked up about that until a few months ago when I saw a double amputee trying to get out of his van in a normal parking space when all the handicapped spots were full. In one of the parking spots was my buds wife...he is a 100% SDV and can barely walk, but he wasn't in the car, she used his car to run errands and used his handicapped plate out of convenience to park in a spot.

Instead of giving heavy deployers more time with their families I think ACC should use that day for full Class A open ranks inspections...with demerits.

Learned to fly when I was 16, IP was a Korean War vet who flew Panthers and insisted that was the only way to fly with a map. I found it easier to know where I was, quick look at the map to know where north was, didn't have to calculate backwards off the course or look for a floating N...old habits die hard.

It's legit. Hey acting SECAF, tell me your were a douche bag missileer who never deployed and never felt the impact on families without telling me.

Understood, but many of the accidents you cited were with Captain's trained the way I was. I know you tried on the survey, would have been great if some other age groups responded. I do feel comfortable punching the system off and have felt the negative impacts of automation. Two years ago I picked my plane up after an inspection that required they pull the battery. I have a custom profile I can select and going through my checklist I thought all was well. As I taxied out I had my map zoomed in (Cirrus has a great safe taxi system). The weather was crappy and I filed IFR with the intent of staying low and VMC to fly the 40 miles back to my home airport. Unfortunately the airspace was saturated and the controlled had me climb to transition over KPNS. In doing so I went IMC and when I zoomed my map out my gyros nearly tumbled...disconnecting the battery reset all the presets and my map was course up...I have ALWAYS flown North up. I had to force myself not to look at the MFD and stayed glued to the PFD while I "caught up". I was on vectors so once I leveled off I had enough brain stem to start searching the menus to switch to north up. There were 10 other settings (ABSA traffic, Weather, Glide Ring, Trend Line...etc), I prefer but I focus on two or three then set up the approach. I am a prolific texter...mainly because I don't like people and texting means I don't have to talk to them. My son and I text all day and share reels from Instagram (sports and flying), with each other through the app.

On numerous occasions I've seen cops in my neighborhood turn their lights on when a car coming the other way was speeding, then turn their lights off and continue when the speeder slows down. Officers always have discretion and examples like you have above can be effective. However, to blatantly state as a policy that the police will not pull people over for minor violations is a license to commit minor violations.

I am reading through it. Let me lead with - great topic to research...as a long time military pilot who is now in GA I find the automation has great benefit but also has pitfalls that must we need to be aware of. Perhaps based on my age and experience level but If I were questioning you during your defense I found a theme you need to address...age Demographic. Maybe it doesn't matter because folks in my age group will time out (of airline flying), over the next 10 years but our initial training was different and had you compared our performance and opinions versus the younger generation it might have helped prove your hypothesis. I cut your respondents demographic right out of your paper...ALL of your respondents are between 25-44 which is a very specific generational group that has likely exposed to newer forms of automation since they first played a video game. Interestingly some of the accidents you cite happened with aircrew that are not in the age demographic you measured. Age of Research Participant Responses Percentage of Responses 18-24 0 out of 14 0% 25-34 4 out of 14 29% 35-44 10 out of 14 71% 45-54 0 out of 14 0% 55-64 0 out of 14 0% 65 or older 0 out of 14 0% Case in point, I flew T-37's and T-38's in UPT...both had steam gauges. I also flew the AC-130H, again with steam gauges. In the AC-130H in we did not get a moving map until many years after I joined the unit and it forced me to build an SA picture in my brain bucket. As I moved into GA and the absolute saturation of data offered by automation it took me a while to develop a new flow, but once I did I was far ahead of my much younger CFI doing my Cirrus training. Also, when the automation has driven me into what I consider a corner...I have ZERO problem or delay in punching the system off and hand-flying the airplane. Case in point, the Perspective Plus in the SR-22 has an issue with VNAV on some approaches depending on where you commence the approach and when you actually select approach mode. On several occasions I have simply disconnected the autopilot and flown the needles rather than fight the automation. Is that a function of my training in the Cirrus...or my initial training as a pilot?

New York proposal would ban police from making traffic stops for minor violations to pursue 'racial equity'

It is going to be ugly when that house of cards crumbles.

It is Blue Chip bargain time.

At Laughlin it was a State Trooper that ended the Highway men...he was staking out what he thought was kids drag racing and leaving the tire marks on the road when a T-38 came along and did a touch and go.

Still not as bad as the Highway Men and the Turtle club at Laughlin back in the day....IYKYK.

The latest exercise around Taiwan shows how urgent the China problem really is. They have SERIOUS issues and as just released their population decreased for a third year in a row. Peter Zeihan has a good outline of how the decrease is going to impact world-wide production of goods.

Same, including Harvard which was an ass tear of indoctrination, but I digress. Lets rationally discuss this, I won't call you an activist Libtard, don't call me a Magahat (for the record I don't believe either of us fall in those categories. First and foremost, I am a rule of law guy and I agree, there was supposed to be due process (it separates us from the savages), and there was a a deportation order just not back to country of origin as you pointed out. Did they break the order, yes. The explanation is it was an error, I am hoping that is true because BOTH sides should about lawful orders...again the savages part. I think there is a bigger discussion about activist judges like this. While I am NOT in favor of impeaching a judge simply because you don't like his or her ruling, there is something fundamentally wrong when a single person (who was not even elected), can stop federal policy...even the President doesn't have that much authority in most cases. The situation is exacerbated when appellants go judge shopping. Even the 12 circuit courts are made up of panels...we have to fix that part of the system. It is disingenuous for EITHER side to scream rule of law when BOTH sides do it. Lets be real, maybe I missed it, but I don't recall you objecting when Biden opened the border or when he forgave student debt - Even when SCOTUS told him he couldn't! At the end of the day we have to find some middle ground, I believe that is what the framers wanted....discussion, compromise, logical thought and finally an agreement in the middle.

My parents used legal immigrants from Mexico to harvest on their farm. How do I know they were legal...the verification responsibility was on my parents not the government and they faced VERY harsh fines if the government discovered an illegal working on our farm. The government showed up a few times each year to verify everyone. I remember them coming one time and a dude took off running through the field to get away. It wasn't like an ICE raid, they were just coming to check my parents books and copies of SSNs and I-9's. Turned out this guy had stolen someone's identity (shocking I know). As far as work ethic...I would say mostly, but it depends. You noted them running through the fields to pick fruit. They had two methods of being paid, one was what we called "Set Piece" meaning they got a ticket for every bucket they harvested and each ticket was worth a certain amount of money. They would indeed run through the field and try to get as many tickets as possible. Yes they could make more money but in their haste they were hard on the fruit and the plants. The second method was simple pay per hour...they would dramatically slow down under that method. Regardless, it was hard work and I worked alongside them. I hated summers the most, we grew summer squash and the pickers would dump their buckets into 60 pound wooden crates on the ground. When they were done someone would drive a flatbed along the row and I would lift those crates onto the flatbed while someone else stacked them...hundreds of crates every day. It was a relief when football practice started, I was already in superb shape and I found practice easier than working on the farm.

This certainly doesn't help the situation... Air traffic controller arrested after ‘incident’ at Washington DC area control tower

I've mentored a LOT of people through the years...some still on this very forum. The video below is a GREAT story about how one interaction can change someone's life and getting to see it come full circle Screw all the BS politics discussions...chase your dreams, work hard and be a good dude/dudette.

Tell me you know nothing about military flying and you have never done a flyover at Arlington without telling me.

Putin escapes assassination bid? Buzz over Limousine explosion in Moscow Why do so many Russians fall out of windows and have exploding cars?

I did EXACTLY that same thing today!

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