Who lets a 6 year old travel alone, for any reason?
Before 9-11, perhaps, when a parent could take the kid to the gate and watch them get on the airplane and another person could be at the gate to meet him/her when the plane landed…not so much today.
Leaving the welfare of a 6 year old to some airline is bad enough….
But SPIRIT airlines? That is negligent negligence.
Seen on TV…and not late night TV either. Prime Time.
I figure fully 2/3 of the folks I hung around with 40+ years ago will end up calling them
Is WHY Were The Documents Sealed in the First Place?
That at the Egypt/Gaza border there are as many people trying to get from Gaza to Egypt as there are illegal invaders trying to get from Mexico to the US….and in a much smaller area. They could cross into Egypt anytime they wished, except for a flimsy gate preventing them from crossing.
Of course, that gate/border wall is backed by men with guns and the threat that they will use them (likely not a threat, but a promise).
Unlike our border, which has no real meaning because no one will stop the crossers with violence if they decide to cross, the Egyptian border is secure. ours, is a paper barrier. Anyone who shot a border crosser would be prosecuted for Murder.
Sadly, it will take violence to actually stop these people from invading our country. Someone will have to be shot and/or killed to make our border secure again. Maybe more than one.
have knowledge of a single person who, at this stage, regrets having NOT gotten the Covid Jab?
Is there a single person who wishes, at this stage, that they had gotten the Vax?
Anyone? Bueller?
Harder to do with this one though.
But I wish I could afford one for myself for Christmas!
Target practice and Home Defense.
Please, take a minute and remember why it is a holiday.
I hope you spend it with family and/or friends, Lots of Cheer and all that.
But remember: Raise a glass, take a moment, have thought for those folks, sailors, soldiers, airmen or marines who are on duty at a post somewhere without their family far from home.
Not happy with all the publicly owned “Confederate” statues and memorials being erased in cities and towns across the country, now they have to destroy memorial statues in federal cemeteries as well.
I have to ask, (and I include myself here) At what point will we stand up and say “enough”? When will we say “stop”?
How much attempted erasure of history can we stomach? Will we countenance?
But you gotta keep up if yer gonna fly
The ground at night from 5000 ft (not really)
So the FAA says you gotta do at least 6 instrument approaches every 6 months to maintain your IFR currency**….to be legal to fly in IMC….And I had only three. (It’s a good idea, really, and your skills are perishable , much like shooting: if you don’t keep them up, you don’t have them at all when you need them)
So you must have 6 approached every 6 months to carry passengers and to maintain your currency…Either you do them in actual IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions…I.E. Clouds) or you can do those practice approaches in VMC (visual Meteorological Condition…Clear skies)…but if you do them in VMC, you need to wear a view limiting Device (foggles or equivalent) and have a safety pilot.
One of the other pilots I know is trying to get a job at an airline and he needed some twin time to meet their requirements, and both of us needed a night landing as well, so he accompanied me as a safety pilot. He did the takeoff and flew us to a point where I took over, put on Foggles and intercepted the ILS to an airport, did the approach to minimums on instruments, and then went missed…he then flew to another airport and I did the same, only an RNAV this time . We then flew to yet another airport and did the same, then on to Champaign (KCMI) and I did an actual approach under foggles (but under ATC control) but this time we landed. That approach was fun as Champaign Approach asked that we keep the speed up for the learjet that was coming behind us, so I flew the approach at 150 knots and slowed up in the last 2 miles to gear speed and then did a landing….all under the foggles. It was kinda challenging, but fun…… when I looked up and took off the foggles, I was perfect on the localizer and just a bit high on the glide slope. I touched down in the center of the 1000 ft markers without a chirp and rolled out to the end of rwy 14L before taxiing to the FBO.
Since it was dinner time and nearly (legal) nighttime, we got a crew car and went into town and got some Chinese food at Golden Harbor restaurant, Since it is my friend MC’s favorite restaurant, I called her to see what she wanted and got some to go for her. We drove back to the airport, did a preflight, and took off. He did the flight home so he could get his time and did a landing, then I did one also…..(Night currency requires 3 landings to a full stop every 90 days)…I had one night landing previously, so now I need one more to be legal… He got about 1.3 hours twin time total, so he is closer to the requirements for getting an airline job and I am mostly current for instrument flying.
The lights on the ground are kinda pretty from altitude:
Champaign on the climb-out
North-north-eastbound -Chicago off the left wing about 70 miles
It is kinda surprising how much light there is on the ground in mid/central Illinois and Indiana. It isn’t ever truly “dark”, even when it is mostly farmland below you. The above photos were taken on the climb out (3-4 thousand feet) and in cruise at 7500.
**(Note: Being “Current” is not the same as being “Proficient”- Legally one can be current, but not proficient. It is only through practice and education and more practice that one becomes (and stays) proficient. The currency requirements are an attempt by the FAA to keep pilots proficient)
Apparently (some of) the names of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates will be revealed in early 2024.
But some people will not be named….apparently some of the people on the list could petition the court to remain unnamed.
One wonders how much the continued confidentiality cost…..