Burt Reynolds has died .

To me, he will always be the actor in “Smokey and the Bandit”…..Of course there is “Deliverance” and “the Longest Yard” as well. 

to spread across the world would be “Airborne”.

‘Twas, apparently not that big of a deal this time.

I now hold a “Complex” endorsement.

I did it with a Piper aircraft. Which flies OK, it just isn’t the aircraft I would choose to buy.

“Complex” isn’t really that big of a deal, actually. Just more to do at takeoff, climb, descent and landing. Pretty simple though.

Damned fast, that Turbo Arrow, what with no gear and no struts causing drag. 

So I am at the Dr’s office. I like my doctor, I really do….

I had an issue which caused a bit of pain, and we discussed the level of pain it caused.

She said that women experience pain and deal with it better than men, so a 10 for a man is like a 6 for a woman

“Not true”, says I.  “While we may handle it differently, men simply deal with it”. Women can’t handle the pain of a fight, or an injury as well as men”. Putting a number on it isn’t a good comparison. Most women can’t handle the level of pain that men can and keep going.

“Oh yeah?” she asked. “explain”…..”Women handle childbirth…a greater pain than you can ever imagine”.

“I cannot ever experience the pain a woman undergoes giving birth, but it can’t be that bad, either.”

“how do you figure?” she asked.

“Women often choose to have another child after their first one….it can’t be as bad as say….getting kicked in the….er….jimmies.”

“how can you compare the two?

“Well, again, women often choose to have a second, or third or even more children…If it were as bad as you say, after the first birth experience, no man would ever touch you again……But you often choose to have another child.”

“So?” she asked

“No man ever stands there and says “Gee, I think I will ask someone to kick me in the testicles again”

We moved on to other areas of discussion after that.

The more I like Cessna’s engineering.

So I have flown a Warrior and 2 different Arrows….One Turbo and one not.

And I gotta say that there is no one thing that is terribly bad on any of ’em, but SO many things, switches, electrical busses, controls, fuel selector (WTF is wrong with a “Both” position?), etc. are just….less than ideal, at least in my mind. Kinda half assed, if you will.

They fly ok, but I don’t like the “feel”, especially on approach. And I HATE the way they sink when the power is pulled back.

But hey, to each their own. Some folks like’em. I think, however, that I will start with a Cessna.

I mean, this is like Glock V 1911 (1911 for me)….pretty much a preference thing. 

The press that couldn’t wait to trash him, denigrate him and dig up dirt on him when he was running for president against their chosen lightbringer candidate now cannot wait to praise John McCain now that he is safely dead.

But hey, he has good attendance at his funeral, if only so most of the attendees can check out his corpse and make sure he is really dead.

O’Reilley’s auto parts

HERE.

I have 2 on order, but they are backordered until 1985. October 27th, I believe.

Someone has a sense of humor

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I find such coincidences somewhat odd, don’t you?

Remember, the Feds have “Not been able to examine” the weapons used in the Vegas massacre yet…..

I am growing tired of having to share the road with people who are less intelligent than week old lettuce, less situationally aware than an overripe tomato, and have the nervous response time of wilted broccoli. This makes for bad drivers…

And that is, of course BEFORE they start driving while using a cell phone to distract them and block fully 50 percent of their peripheral vision.

‘Tis a good thing I am not subject to Road Rage….Just Sayin’. 

I mean, anyone can buy a gun, all you need is money.

But I was trying to do some research on airplanes for a possible purchase and ended up on several airplane forums ….

Damn.

I mean one might expect some level of disagreement, but the thing is, there is a minimum level of intelligence required to be a pilot, right?
Right?

The same infighting, the same unreasonable defense of one brand over another, the same unreasoning hatred of the “other” brand… the same illogic, the same defense of what that person had purchased…

I mean, you can substitute 1911 for Cessna and Piper for GLOCK and see nearly identical arguments (and then sub Mooney for FN to get the REAL argument started)

And the rumors and untruths repeated by people that have never experienced that product,  But they know it is true because they heard it from a friend of a friend of a cousin of the brother of the guy who shares the next hangar over….

I guess, no matter what the forum topic, people are people.
And topic discussion fora are really not reliable sources of data. The same level of noise to signal exist there as well.