So, at a towered airport (Class D).

Call for clearance, get it…. am on 1 mile final. Tower warns another aircraft to HOLD SHORT like 4 times on a taxiway leading to a crossing runway. I approach, do a touch and go, and depart to the right. He’s still being held. 3 other aircraft call for clearance to land, she gives permission and they do so…Dude is still waiting to taxi. Another aircraft is cleared in and he is STILL waiting.

I think he pissed off the controller. She sounded angry when talking to him.

I departed the area and switched frequencies and he was still waiting as I did so. At least 12 minutes.

I wonder if he ever got clearance to move? Or if he ran out of fuel waiting……?

I learned a very valuable lesson there:
Don’t piss off the controller. 

If you are selling an accessory, say an auxiliary light for trucks, one might think that providing SOME sort of dimensions, or (even better) a basic mechanical drawing of the exterior of the light case would be a big part of the information one should provide on the website…..or, failing that, a link to said drawings wherein one could find out if the item is of a size and depth that would work…..

It’s not like such a bit of information would take up that much server space, nor would it be difficult to put into a website along with all the pretty pictures….

So now the NAACP is suggesting a “Travel Warning” for American Airlines to all black passengers.

Cites “Troubling Trend” of incidents with black passengers.

Do you believe that American is prejudiced? That they would dare have a coporate policy to discriminate?

Plus, my first touch and go at a towered airport. (class D).
I am learning how important airspeed is at touchdown, as I was cautioned by a commentor several posts back.

But I’m learning, if slowly.

Soon.

That is what the audit of the Obama HUD shows.

$500 billion in 2016.

$3.4 billion in 2015.

So bad even the auditors aren’t sure WTF is going on. 

All that money, unaccounted for because of terrible accounting practices.

No one is sure exactly what was done, or where they money went.

If I had done my business accounting using these methods, the IRS would own the business next audit.

Being Federal employees though, I doubt that there is an accountability though….

Soon, it will have consequences for real Americans.

One must now have proper papers to travel, at least via air:

They were previously allowed to use mere driving licenses. 
But residents of some US states may soon require additional ID, such as passports, if they wish to embark on air travel – even if just domestically.
That’s the new procedure on the horizon for people from states that have not yet introduced the standards required by the 2005 Real ID Act, which demands stricter regulations for state-issued IDs.
The states that haven’t yet fallen into line each now have a grace period of three months to meet the revised criteria. 
This deadline expires on 22 January 2018

Over half the states don’t yet have ‘acceptable” standards.

If flying after 22 Jan 2018, be aware and plan accordingly. Oughta be interesting on and after that day at the TSA chcekpoints.

I am fully aware that 44 degrees F isn’t that cold.

And yes, I understand that in 3 or 4 months, I will dream about days this warm.

Nonetheless, today (and, to a lesser extent, yesterday) is a cold,wet, damp, dreary, just plain chilly day.

BRRR. 

Ceiling too low and viz is 3 miles.

Maybe Wednesday. 

Kinda nice when you are making an approach, short final, and the VASI comes on suddenly and there are two red and two white.

Just sayin’