How Much Does Lumber Weigh?

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well, i guess the time tested and true rivet scale will have to work.

where did you get the standard weight for a hippie, the AIM?
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If you know your airplane and the water line on the floats when empty and at gross you can pretty well count on that being quite accurate.

It's called displacement.
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Shame on you Cat! You know better than to bring that "science" shit in here!
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Mello, I can be forgiven because I'm senile.

The difference between me and the new age Gurus is when we learned to fly our minds were not overloaded with the Voo Doo B.S. that is pumped out of TC's bloated machine and written by people that obviously fly desks.

When the mind is over loaded with to many goofy ideas the pilots fail to notice their fu.king airplanes are over loaded.

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Cat Driver wrote: The difference between me and the new age Gurus is when we learned to fly our minds were not overloaded with the Voo Doo B.S. that is pumped out of TC's bloated machine and written by people that obviously fly desks.
In the dictionary under redundant, it says, see REDUNDANT.

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Help me out here Desks.

Is it your opinion that the failure to understand basics is redundant?

I am trying to point out that to much information clutters up the mind at the risk of not seeing the obvious.

As to todays training as dictated by the regulator if I were to go back and work under their dictates I would have to go back to making peanuts for pay.

The value of instructors is determined by the market.

How come my methods of instructing pays more than ten times the hourly rate of a pilot working under his/her TC Class 1 instructor rating?

So if my comments are redundant so be it, my clients don't think so. :wink:
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Skronk...double post.
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You can at least appreciate that under the topic of redundancy, you posted the same thing twice? :)

Essentially I would agree with everything that you posted in your response to me. Flight instructors are the most undervalued asset in our industry, I'll run with you on the fact that the majority of our training conducted in this country falls short of what it should be. I'd even go as far as to call it deplorable in parts.

but it was this:
The difference between me and the new age Gurus is when we learned to fly our minds were not overloaded with the Voo Doo B.S. that is pumped out of TC's bloated machine and written by people that obviously fly desks
that got my attention.

That's no excuse for stupidity. The average pilot under most circumstances should be able to operate with some common sense and still balance it with the voodoo B.S of which you speak...because guess what, again, its not going away.

The mind being over loaded with to many goofy T.C ideas is no excuse for a poor load on board an aircraft.

Can't blame T.C for everything, or can you. Your call.
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Noooooo, bring back Angelina. Smoking baby Yuckkkkky.
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" Can't blame T.C for everything, or can you. Your call. "

Of course not desks, but using logic one must examine the root cause of anything that needs improvement, therefore as long as TC makes the rules for training they must be held to inspection when the level of pilot competency leaves something to be desired.

But if it makes everyone feel better TC is not alone in this downward spiral of poor pilot skills, Europe has the same problem.


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bandaid wrote:Noooooo, bring back Angelina. Smoking baby Yuckkkkky.
As you wish 8)
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Cat Driver wrote:Skronk...double post.
FARK! I can't believe you used "skronk" in a post! ;)
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Cat Driver wrote:

But if it makes everyone feel better TC is not alone in this downward spiral of poor pilot skills, Europe has the same problem.

Why do we not have operators and CFI's pushing for changes in the industry then? I'm sure if enough spoke out things might be looked at and possibly changed.

The problem does not lie solely with the rule makers.. we are a democracy.. just need enough people to voice opinions to TC, perhaps even as a group.

Current boss has issues with almost all of the "new" pilots he takes on. A lot of misinformation and lousy decision making and problem solving type issues.
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I am Birddog wrote:
bandaid wrote:Noooooo, bring back Angelina. Smoking baby Yuckkkkky.
As you wish 8)
Now just let haz bring back the girl with the bouncing jubblies!

His current avatar with the fat guy holding a drink wildly offends me.
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" just need enough people to voice opinions to TC, perhaps even as a group. "

Rowdy the simple explination why this will not work is known as " inertia ".

" a property of matter by which it remains at rest or in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force"

In the case of TC doing nothing as in sticking with the status quo is their easiest avenue to maintain.

The training industry is also a victim of inertia and even if it did move it would lack the force to move TC.

So the industry will continue to spiral downward until equilibrium is reached wherein both parties sit side by side drooling and smiling like inbred idiots.

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By the way, anyone here feel I am really that far off base?
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