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A EDWARD BRISENO
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Flying Guest Opinion: Transitioning to a Paperless Cockpit
from A EDWARD BRISENO
wrote 1 year 42 weeks ago
I typically fly for my reasons less than 100 hours a year. I fly primarily because I enjoy flying. I have no problem with sophisticated equipment, and although I am a CFI Instrument Airplane, I prefer to have paper for my flights. I have certain back ups, including communications and navigation, however I prefer to not toss another electronic device which I consider to be a relatively unstable platform. I also operate my Law Firm with heavy reliance on electronics and have come to conclude that if a device is balky (an maybe its only me but I consider iPads to be balky) you should not trust your life to it. I would rather rely on other devices, including multiple GPS and the old fashioned VISUAL references and the VOR/Ground Based NAVAIDS... An INS would be great but as yet I cannot justify the price tag. but a iPAD? Nonsense. As a Southern California pilot I would rather invest in a portable cooler/Air conditioner..... At least its "RETURNS" are tangible. Finally, I do not appreciate the "PROGRESSIVE" political agenda of the owners of APPLE. I, therefore, will redirect my personal resources elsewhere.
Flying Guest Opinion: Transitioning to a Paperless Cockpit
from A EDWARD BRISENO
wrote 1 year 41 weeks ago
Funny how folks who have an agenda engage in personal attacks on other folks who voice a dissenting opinion. It seems that some folks, sadly even ostensibly relatively rational aviation users join the tin-foil hat algore man made global warming opinion that dissenting opinions should be censored. what a myopic existence. By the way Thomas I have a cousin with MS. She lives in a relatively hot town, Hemet, California, and she has an Ice Vest, an Ice Lap Blanket, and back up ice packs with Ice Chest for hot days when she might overheat in her hot (although air conditioned) Southern California small SUV. She has never complained about wetness on her vest. I will have to ask her more closely if that is a troublesome issue in using those devices. The vest looks much like my fishing vest with external flap covered pockets. It looks a bit like you are on Safari. Not bad at all.
Aviation Groups Press for Leaded Avgas Alternatives
from A EDWARD BRISENO
wrote 1 year 9 weeks ago
As I look out at the multitude of engines that operate out there and look at the relative very few engines in aircraft that use 100LL Avgas, not to mention relative small number of hours of aircraft powerplant operations, I have to ask what I consider to be a very serious question. Why? the ridiculous focus on the total elimination of low lead fuel and the quest to spend resources to eliminate the virtual trace amounts of lead in Avgas seems more like a "religious quest" than a truly technical or health related issue. I have noticed, and I would be shocked to hear any serious private pilot dispute this, that the true private pilot flyers have cut back on aircraft ownership and operations due to the depression in the United States and the general abysmal state of the economy. If the Industry groups actually see fit to support the idiotic quasi-religious movement to eliminate 100LL Avgas and the powerplants that rely on that Avgas, the Industry Groups are simply helping the current Washington D. C. parasites further decimate our fellow pilots by directly attacking the pocketbooks of pilots. If the above identified Industry Groups want to further destroy the private pilot community then they can keep on with this quasi-religious anti-lead quest. I think that those who engage is such stupidity will reap what they sow; sadly for the private pilot community that they purport to serve and/or represent.
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