Recent content by Matthew

The FAA medical specifically asks about the last 2 years of drug use. He can’t honestly “garden” on a weekend and fly.

Thanks. And I know my initial comment seemed pretty harsh, but it’s a reality. I’m a parent that wanted my own kids to have great careers and to do what they wanted. But I came to realize that they will make their own decisions and find their own way. Sometimes they take surprising paths...

There’s some talk in the news recently about reclassifying marijuana at the Federal level. I haven’t paid much attention to the details. Would that reclassification cause any change with FAA medicals?

I like to look on the positive side of things: someone just saved wheelbarrows full of money on flight training.

I expected someone called “Butcher of Tehran” would have face tattoos.

There used to be a local IAC contest near me. I didn’t compete but I did volunteer. Running score sheets from the judges (the judges were usually pilots not flying that category), acting as a recorder for judges, grabbing water bottles, whatever. I was a low time pilot back then and learned a...

Of course, why is that even a question?

I just signed up to judge another contest, the American Royal Open, in Nov. It’s the biggest bbq contest in the world. The Invitational is the day before. I signed up for that, but there’s probably very little chance I get selected since they grandfather in last year’s judges. I’m only...

I’ll go back to my instrument ride experience: I’m ready, IACRA complete, can’t get a DPE to return calls for at least 8 weeks, with no ideas when I would even get a call back let alone be able to schedule a checkride. My cfii and I both thought it would be economical to scale back the 2-3...

Dudes didn’t even have to worry about a ramp check. Slackers.

Even the Wright brothers started out with no clearance.

Oooh, a retaliation for those spy balloons?

The new thread: “Thinking about being shorter”

Now I want to buy another knife. I don’t need one, I already have a good EDC and a handful of old Scrade two-blade knives. I pretty much just carry what I don’t mind losing. But I haven’t lost a knife to a security checkpoint in so long, maybe it’s OK to get a different EDC just because.

I don’t like using my phone as a calculator. The touchscreen doesn’t give the same tactile feedback as a real button. When I was working I did a lot of trig on my HP calculator. But the heavy lifting of statistics was done with Excel since that usually required large tables of data...