JoeWeber

Yes, so maybe don't buy your lubes at the auto parts store.

Sure, and that's encouraging because so few really want to go the distance. That there are yet no lithium powered sex toys is, perhaps, the best evidence.

Carter, You are asking for help. Diesel reached out and made an incredibly generous offer to help you find that help. Take him up on it.

You couldn't be more right: damn horseless carriages!

Not for the prediction, although it's wrong, but because your world view is so rearward looking.

lippy, as ever you get to the crotch of the matter. So, Lydia needs Beetlejuice to help her but the price is some tit rubbing and weenie working which frees him up to cause chaos in the right wing world. Damn if not once again life mimics art.

Well, no one wants to claim they have extensive experience with a small sample.

I probably don't have sufficient experience to comment but is it really that hard, or perhaps not, to know if you're squeezing a Republican weenie or a Democrat weenie? Maybe someone here can tell us if it's at all possible to know. If there is no way to tell maybe Professor Boebert has shown by experiment that there is common ground and a way to get along, that would be nice.

Wish in one hand and crap in the other and guess which will fill up first. Profiling and excluding some folks isn't the most awful thing we can do in this day and age, methinks. Yes some innocents will suffer by being excluded, but maybe other innocents won't. We live in a crappy time that requires crappy choices.

Making legitimate observations does not equate to finding fault or negatives; the simple fact of the matter is that most jumpers like a bigger door if they have a choice. So as long as we are talking pilot stuff, how many loads a day are you good for in the King Air? I've done 36 loads too many times in a Super Caravan and, at least for me, the novelty was long gone after load 20. Yes, the King Air is a less expensive platform but, like a Caravan, the landing gear wasn't built for that number of cycles, especially true of retractable gear aircraft, and you also have the cost of two engines. So your total maintenance must be somewhat more expensive.

Does anyone have any updates on this disastrous bill that USPA needs us to oppose? For that matter are there any updates on whether USPA's policy of encouraging underfunded brand new DZO hopefuls to encroach on established DZ markets is under review? Maybe the USPA "We're not too good at thinking Committee" will issue apologies to the DZ's that couldn't afford to stay alive in a Part 135 environment because USPA assisted so many new DZ's to take market share that might have allowed them to hire Part 135 coordinators.

We don't. For all we know he dumped her for being a lousy lay. What we do know is that I had a happy thought that put a little light into my life and you are peeing on my parade.

Yep, she dumped him upon learning he was an LGBTQ friendly Democrat. We do have our standards, it seems.

For my part, I am fully embarrassed for BIGUN, airdver, Brebt, BillE and every other plain clothed rightie that posts here.

Nope. It'll be that damn liberal put hash oil in my vaper, grabbed my tits and wouldn't stop so I squeezed his weenie until he did. So, me too!

It's all so funny I could cry. Human stupidity in every domain is so overwhelming that the idea that our species will survive the next 1000 years is simply ludicrous.

Yes. And not just for you but for everyone else who believes going to the internet first and talking to experts second is appropriate: stop it. That is not to say that the voracious reading of articles and research online isn't a fantastic way to learn. Just do not expect that opinions from all comers on blogs is a good first start. It is not, in fact it's the worse way to start.

With respect sir, You need to hire someone with deep experience and knowledge rather than seeking solutions online. It's not just asking how to make a successful exit with a student at high exit speeds, imagine what might happen if two inexperienced instructors tumble an AFF 1 at 250kph or if the pilot turns on the light at 300 kph. Surely there is someone you can access for knowledge if these jumps are even necessary and unless it's some kind of special forces training I can not imagine why it would be.

The family values party, who can't stomach the idea of queer couples holding hands in public, must think it's just peachy for an unmarried hetero couple to engage in foreplay in a public family setting. You know, letting your date fondle your exposed tits in a theater seat whilst giving him a nice moral majority hand job.

DeSantis was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy and graduated from Yale and Harvard. Any other ideas?

Lippy, as I previously told you when you are gone I intend to have you bronzed. The problem now, and as you know every one is short handed, is scheduling. So. I caught a break and have an online coupon for next week. Does that work for you?

Marriage: the number one cause of divorce and expensive college educations.

Nothing could be more true.

Well and that's the point. Too many Skydive Operators looked at outfits with FAA approved 8000 hour TBO's and say "Why not me, too?". Then go out and buy a 4000 Hour engine that was rebuilt by a grey shop. I've seen it and I've seen those engines on the floor at SA. But they aren't doing the real maintenance, Also, to get that 8000 hour TBO they jump through hoops proving their maintenance. First they apply to send in a 4500 hour engine. If that looks good then a 5000 hour engine and so on until 8000 hours. Nothing is skipped or fudged. Soap samples, vibration analysis, Borescope inspections and HSI's are done on schedule. Done right a post TBO PT6 is a fine engine. But it must be done right.

Rob, I've bought aircraft out of 135 operations that were rigged for shit: flaps that didn't retract evenly, elevator trim out of spec, ailerons uneven etc. All of those things could mimic a wing that wasn't rigged exactly as the other for angle of incidence. That, and I'd wager a meaningful difference would be visible to the eye looking head on. A failed fuel pump due to a missing required inspection is a problem but I can tell you that after 34 years in this game and a fair amount of experience running a crap load of different aircraft in skydiving and all sizes of PT6 engines in the engine leasing game that accessories can fail early in their life, too. I think most operators with wide ranging experience would agree that a smooth runner with 500-1500 hours on it is the one you don't think about. Also, my business was leasing engines to operators with FAA approved 8000 TBO's. I had access to the tear down floor at Standard Aero, Winnipeg. Trust me, a well maintained PT6 engine that was serviced by Pratt or a DDOF could look pretty good on the carts after tear down. And, I never saw a trend towards excessive early accessory replacement in the log books. No, the Hawaii accident was caused by a jerk pilot and lack of management supervision. That said, this is aviation, our Gods are weak, and too often unavailable so I've already notified my shop that we're replacing accessories this winter.