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Peace in rap!?
On Jul 3, 2:17*pm, "Steve Foley" wrote:
It may last, but I won't see it. AT&T is dropping usenet access as of 7/15 I had to get a (free) Gmail account and use Google Groups. It's not quite as user-friendly but it's portable. You can forward gmail to your regular e-mail account or just ignore it. I bailed on rec.aviation newsgroups around the same time Jay and everybody else did because the flaming and name-calling started to bring out the worst in people. It is one of the reasons why network administrators have decided to say "Aw, screw it" and discontinue access. Nobody wants to have to maintain a team of admins just to avoid blacklisting for being unable to stay on top of thousands of inappropriate abuse complaints every week. It's easier just to pull the plug on the whole thing and apply those resources elsewhere. Moreover, we should endeavor to act like pilots, not angry old hens. Meanwhile, it's been a positively brutal year for aviation so far in Oregon. We've got furloughed Horizon pilots coming in to try to find CFI work, or to just meet their unemployment benefit conditions. Last year at this time even the new CFIs were too busy to take on new students and there were more airplanes than tie-downs on the average summer weekend. Now, other than the handful of regulars, the CAP and transients, it's a ghost town. One out-of-work CFI told me that other FBOs are reporting 25% of last-year's activity so far this year. Last week, the FAA looked at our 50-year-old, towered airport, (KTTD) and decided that the Bravo taxiway was 100' too close to the runway. So, despite there never having been a related accident--even when the taxiway was the alternate runway when the runway was being resurfaced-- they plowed an entire row of hangars to make room, with no plans to replace them. There is no available hangar space here, so, a whole bunch of owners have to scramble to relocate. They're threatening to put metal detectors and TSA agents where there are presently picnic tables, a closely-knit pilot and owner community and no history of criminal activity. The good news for us is, the FAA inspected the FBO last week and the only thing he dinged us on for Part 135 and Part 141 operations was because a renter had absentmindedly removed the owner's manual from the Skylane. (The necessary checklists were still onboard and the plane wasn't scheduled to fly.) They shut down our competitor last year, so, we all breathed a sigh of relief when the inspector said "Everything looks great!" The old-timers like to point out a lack of new students equates to longer-term career security for pilots who are already coming into the industry, and we're managing to hold on to an above-average reputation as an FBO and flight school, so, we just have to hang in there until the financial and political chaos settles. Fly safe! Chris Gattman Commercial pilot, CFI - Troutdale, Oregon |
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Peace in rap!?
On Jul 3, 2:17*pm, "Steve Foley" wrote:
"Ricky" wrote in message ... May it last...please! Ricky It may last, but I won't see it. AT&T is dropping usenet access as of 7/15 There are many, many other ways of accessing the mysterious, complex world of Usenet. |
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Peace in rap!?
Meanwhile, it's been a positively brutal year for aviation so far in
Oregon. Same here in Iowa. Our FBO's business is down over 50% from 2008, which was, itself, an awful year. FBOs up and down I-80 are shut down or on half-time hours. Many times, while flying, we are the only ones talking to approach, and the FAA is talking about downgrading the Cedar Rapids tower (and a whole slew of others) due to low traffic count. It's been like reading a bad movie script. It's going to take a friggin' miracle for GA to live through this recession/depression... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 Ercoupe N94856 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Peace in rap!?
Ricky wrote:
May it last...please! Didn't last long, did it? |
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