AOPA Propaganda, cont.

Jay Honeck wrote:

I am trying really hard to get a "news reader." The problem is that the
local antiques dealer doesn't have anymore of the appropriate vacuum tubes
to power the damned thing! Oh well, I'll have to stick to the thing that
ALGORE invented.


If you are running Windows 98 or XP, you already have an excellent (and
real) newsreader, called "Outlook Express".

It's also an excellent email program, and costs precisely...nothing, since
it comes bundled with Windows. It'll sure make reading your posts easier.

And also a great conduit for viruses and hackers.

Matt

On the training, I had settled on the Cessna (How the heck do you climb in
and out of the Piper if you're over 6' tall??? ;-)

Well, when I get old and decrepit, I'll be buying myself one of those "old
man" planes, where you simply roll your wheelchair up under the wing, open
the door, and roll in.

In the meantime, until that day, I shall continue to jauntily hop up on the
wing, and sorta step/crouch/roll into my Piper... :-) (And I'm 6' tall.)

I can't believe how much it costs today!!! More than double what I would
have paid about 12 years ago had I continued, even if I redo the ground
training with a software program. And then there's the fuel costs.

Shop around. If you can find a small-ish rural airstrip, you will save big
bucks on rental. If you find a private CFI who is working a day job -- and
is NOT affiliated with any FBO -- you will save big bucks on instruction.

I don't know what you do/did for a living, but do you have any opportunity
to do a trade-out? Service/product in exchange for flight? Barter is the
American way, and it keeps the tax man out of the equation.

There *are* still ways to learn to fly "cheaply"... It just takes some
ingenuity.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

If you are running Windows 98 or XP, you already have an excellent (and
real) newsreader, called "Outlook Express".

It's also an excellent email program, and costs precisely...nothing,
since it comes bundled with Windows. It'll sure make reading your posts
easier.

And also a great conduit for viruses and hackers.

That, my friend, is what keeps Norton and eTrust in business!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Today's propaganda:

The FAA's just-released, revised "Flight Plan — 2006-2010" is still
improperly focused on user fees, as far as AOPA is concerned. Although the
agency did change some of the draft plan based on AOPA comments, the agency
continues its claims about a "funding crisis."

"There is a fundamental disagreement between the FAA and AOPA about
whether the aviation trust fund is running out of money," said AOPA
President Phil Boyer. "As I testified before Congress, even the White
House Office of Management and Budget is forecasting continued growth in
the fund, and the fiscal year 2005 numbers bear this out."


Uh, but what about the expense side of the ledger? What is OMB saying
about that??? As Boyer the Destroyer well knows, the projected gap is
composed of the shortfall between expected revenue and expedenditures.

What BS. Again, "Facts are stubborn things."

BTW: I said once before that the business aviation lobbies and AOPA are
currently on the same page on user fees. If it looks like the battle
will be lost, AOPA might go to a fallback position and try and exempt
light GA. Quotes from him yesterday indicate that this may be happening!
Divide and conquer!!!

Jay Honeck wrote:

That, my friend, is what keeps Norton and eTrust in business!

:-)


True. But why not avoid the security holes in Outlook Express all
together by using Mozilla Thunderbird for an e-mail/newsreader client?

Same endorsement for a web browser: use Mozilla Firefox.

Both programs can be downloaded FREE from http://www.mozilla.org/



Steve

It's all relative. People who got their tickets years back felt they
were paying through the nose, too.


$750.

Skylune, you hapless Troll, are you the poster child for Home Schooling?

If so, what a failure.


"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
It sounds as if the programs and policies that "Skylune" are giving him
a dose of reality! He WANTS flying to cost us more, but now laments the
fact that it DOES cost more!

Advice to "Skylune": Don't spit in the well!

Advice taken, and filed (under delete). I've always said that if I return
to the sky, it should be on my own dime. Not the taxpaying public.

"Tom" wrote in message
...
Skylune, you hapless Troll, are you the poster child for Home Schooling?

If so, what a failure.

Are you kidding? Home schoolers have won like the last ten Natl Speeling
Bee's, been some of the top SAT scores...



"Skylune" wrote in message

Matt Barrow wrote:
"Tom" wrote in message
...

Skylune, you hapless Troll, are you the poster child for Home Schooling?

If so, what a failure.


Are you kidding? Home schoolers have won like the last ten Natl Speeling
Bee's, been some of the top SAT scores...

Yep, clearly a product of the public school system.


Matt

"Matt Whiting" wrote

Yep, clearly a product of the public school system.

Once again, you've gotten on my last nerve, with that crack. See ya.

Into the kill file, again.
--
Jim in NC