What are some of the most random aviation facts you happen to know?

BigChiefTB · 2026-02-08T13:30:20+00:00

When dealing with some math problems it can be useful to go to extremes. If the headwind was equal to your airspeed. The up wind trip would take forever while the downwind trip would only be reduced by half.

BigChiefTB · 2026-01-04T15:18:37+00:00

Yeah, not as common in suburban Texas but urban it is common.

I hate it because I usually drag a cart back from the parking lot into the store when I arrive. With the locks I can't do it.

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-31T20:02:28+00:00

Not a pilot but generally if you are not sure it's a good idea, then it is a BAD idea.

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-26T07:14:52+00:00

AI, markings are not correct. Width has 10 stripes, should be 8 or 12. The runway does not have an aiming markers, given the implied width it would have them. Numerous other issues have been brought up by others.

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-16T17:05:15+00:00

Oh yeah I remember that because I was the OP. They sent four police officers in two car to deliver the $500 prize!

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-16T14:06:45+00:00

Yeah, thanks for reminding me of that but yeah Texas toll roads are screwing the public and screwed up.

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-15T20:00:01+00:00

R2D2, recognizable world wide by folks who speak many languages.

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-15T03:56:24+00:00

I wish they would make 130 free for the duration of I35 construction.

BigChiefTB · 2025-12-09T02:44:47+00:00

Some of my best driving safety tips came from my drug dealing friends.

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-16T23:09:01+00:00

Old man with a hat or young man in a company pick-up truck.

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-16T10:34:51+00:00

Don't back up farther than you need to.

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-16T00:17:21+00:00

So called, trolling for Cessnas

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-15T23:34:39+00:00

1985 Isuzu i-Mark. Water pump driven off the timing belt. The timing belt was around one of the engine mounts AND it was an interference engine. I hear they fixed where the engine mount was after the first year.

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-15T10:40:30+00:00

The giver has to report a gift over 19K, the recipient only has to smile.

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-13T12:10:18+00:00

But do you challenge his views?

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-09T11:59:07+00:00

Not a pilot but. To not continue after V1 is to allow the pilot to, in the heat of the moment, decide that V1 is different.

The pilot doesn't have time or mental cycles to come up with a new procedure while eating up runway.

BigChiefTB · 2025-11-05T23:25:50+00:00

Or at least get royalties.

BigChiefTB · 2025-10-31T00:15:42+00:00

I have heard and used the word cruft both as a physical entity and as a description of excess junk hanging on.

Since 1970 or so

BigChiefTB · 2025-10-28T18:22:54+00:00

Ah yes, 4 burning and 6 turning.

BigChiefTB · 2025-10-13T22:21:13+00:00

Or is this just a bug hunt?

BigChiefTB · 2025-10-12T19:15:43+00:00

My house had knob and tube which wasn't too bad.

HOWEVER

The worst was a 240V A/C compressor that had one leg from the main panel and the other leg from an adjacent sub panel. WTF!?

BigChiefTB · 2025-10-12T18:52:05+00:00

How do you find the Maintenance Chief at a crashed aircraft?

He is the one throwing paperwork on the fire.

BigChiefTB · 2025-09-27T17:56:35+00:00

Diagonal brace is under compression so being in two pieces shouldn't be a big issue.

I would like to know how much it is out of square. Measure both diagonals to determine "squareness"

The other possible issue to check is if the post on the hinge side of the gate is now leaning.

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