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It is curious how these minor sorts of hysteria about things in the sky get going. https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-fbi-release-statement-about-drone-sightings-in-new-jersey

I would submit that the evidence in other industries is that such regulation actually inhibits growth. I am not sure what sort of examples you are requesting. The last time we discussed this, IIRC, there was no evidence specifically studying the effects of these regulations generally in...

Those sort of anecdotes do not, in my view, argue strongly against the large body of literature which shows that these types of regulation slow down innovation and increase cost. This result is sort of also intuitive, is it not? The whole purpose of such regulations is to keep people from taking...

Good points to think about and nice to hear your input. Overarchingly though, it is a well documented and general result that regulations and the accompanying bureaucracy decrease innovation and increase costs. I see no data and analysis to suggest aviation is any sort of special exception...

I think in that article they are not complaining about specific wording, but rather about the way the regulatory apparatus is simply not talking to or dealing with them at all. So it is the effective stonewalling by people, not the words on paper. I don’t find that terribly surprising. Do...

The regulatory barriers just not moving at all. I have to admire their persistence but fear it is really tilting at windmills. https://airfactsjournal.com/2024/11/the-corsair-c172-v8-experiment-update-3-readers-suggestions/

Apparently just a rock formation - https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/25/rock-formation-not-amelia-earhart-s-plane-shown-in-sonar-image/

Haha. That just happened to be the link I found.

The Spirit of St. Louis was first tested by Lindbergh at Dutch Flats, which was an old flat area in San Diego, north of the current Lindbergh Field. In 2010 I visited the post office near there as there is a plaque marking this location on its wall.

"In short, we are what would be referred to in biology as a domesticated species. We are no longer wild Homo sapiens. Instead, psychologically, many of us have become sheep. Baaa... As sheep -- or, if you prefer domesticated Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens domesticus) or perhaps Homo sapiens...

This time by none other than Dan Gryder https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/23/who-is-d-b-cooper-new-evidence-may-crack-one-of-americas-greatest-mysteries/

More great things coming from private industry - https://www.flyingmag.com/news/civil-aircraft-breaks-sound-barrier-for-first-time-since-concorde/

https://notthebee.com/article/plane-grounded-in-portugal-after-132-hamsters-escape-from-boxes

https://dedaandsons.com/spirit-airlines-files-for-bankruptcy.htm

Clipping the ILS antenna - that’s pretty low! https://www.gatechecked.com/aerosucre-boeing-727-freighter-clips-ils-antenna-while-departing-bogota-9691

50 ton with shielding - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/visions-of-nuclear-powered-cars-captivated-cold-war-america-but-the-technology-never-really-worked-180985437

I assume you know how I view this business about their budget? ;)

I just finished the AOPAs online course. Fairly good graphics and quizzes.

This has turned out to be a much bigger project than I anticipated. For about 6 months impossible to find a DPE. When finally found, I then had to find an instructor with the time. This led me to doing the training in a new airplane type, an SR20, with a glass panel. So I had to get used to...

I think that supervising more DMEs also increases all those good things for a bureaucrat - prestige, power, and pension. I think we could modify that old jingle for Burger King - “the bigger the budget, the better the budget, the budgets are bigger at fedgov”