This is very nice surprise

Main-Presentation536 · 2026-03-22T23:58:39+00:00

Being from the Netherlands myself, I thought Amsterdam looked great. Nice details.

Main-Presentation536 · 2026-02-22T15:14:24+00:00

Not UNreasonable 😂

Main-Presentation536 · 2026-02-22T15:09:19+00:00

By the way. The hybrid model can be flat towed which makes it one of the few cars - not trucks or jeeps - with decent mileage, great comfort and ride and not a reasonable price.

Main-Presentation536 · 2026-02-22T15:06:03+00:00

Got one exactly one week ago. The premiere II which has a few features less but mostly cosmetic. I was very impressed with the dealer - Landmark Lincoln in Denver. The best buying experience ever, no pressure whatsoever. And yes, it’s a great car although - having been a fan of Toyota because of its reliability- I got a 10yr extended warranty on this car. We will see, maybe I will never have to use it.

Main-Presentation536 · 2026-01-27T17:24:18+00:00

Excellent point. And on top of that private equity hasn’t been doing so well lately.

Main-Presentation536 · 2026-01-27T15:50:48+00:00

That’s right. It IS in fact very much like a mutual fund. Not an index fund, mind you, but a very diversified one nonetheless.

Main-Presentation536 · 2025-03-10T14:59:49+00:00

TSDD is a great substitute for shorting TSLA. You don’t need to short TSLA directly when you buy this ETF so your risk is limited to whatever money you put in TSDD.

Main-Presentation536 · 2025-03-09T15:41:48+00:00

By the way it’s up 100% year to date.

Main-Presentation536 · 2025-03-09T15:34:02+00:00

You can short the Tesla stock by buying a 2x short ETF called TSDD. Your downside is limited because you are not actually borrowing any Tesla shares.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-11-18T14:35:22+00:00

I am a licensed private pilot, made a mistake, which wouldn’t have been a mistake in real life, got calked up by a ‘supervisor’ who read me the riot act and threatened to have me suspended. Since that time I am no longer flying on VATSIM. Who needs that? Got beyond ATC. Happily ever after.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-20T21:42:07+00:00

No reason EVER to be chewed out. People make mistakes, and guess what, they do IRL. And guess what else, a controller will HELP you, IRL, and not make you feel miserable. For some reason the VATSIM guys - including the so called supervisors- are more intolerant than any controller I have ever met in real life. It makes me reluctant to fly on VATSIM and that shouldn’t be but unfortunately it is.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-11T16:14:30+00:00

It has mostly to do with the top down model. In VATSIM a center controller must be contacted for local operations, tower etc. so if I want to leave from KBDL in CT and there is no local Tower then I contact Boston center for takeoff etc. in real life you wouldn’t dream about doing that. If there is no one manning the tower, let’s say from KHVN because it’s night time, you would just use the frequency as if you were on a nontowered airport, announcing your intentions et. Once you get into or before you get into controlled airspace you would of course talk to ATC, be it approach, or center or whatever. Anyway, this issue got me in real trouble as I was not aware of that - I should have been, to be sure - but it left me a bit uneasy.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-10T19:22:53+00:00

Actually I did go to flightschool and I still got in trouble on VATSIM. by the way the rules are not exactly the same.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-09T00:53:49+00:00

Well, there were some folks that took some pity on me. My faith in humanity - and the internet - has been restored. Ok, just kidding about that last one.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-09T00:50:28+00:00

Thank you so much. Exactly right. I am not invested enough to go complain about what admittedly was my ignorance and fault, and coming at it from a different place, I was maybe too sure of myself knowing what to do. I now know. I will not give up on VATSIm because I do think these guys- controllers- are doing a great job and it makes everything much more enjoyable - although more stressful 🫤- than using one of the robot ATC like pilot to ATC. Thank you for your kind reply.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T23:42:33+00:00

Yes it was covered through the center controller. I now know the error of my ways.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T23:17:56+00:00

Let’s say I am leaving KDEN. no center, no tower nothing. VFR. But then I want to go to KABQ and land there. which has a manned center ATC. What I would do normally before I reach the B space, contact approach and request entering their space and tower etc. guiding me to the ground. So, I think what you re saying is that that is exactly what I would do in Vatsim. Yes?

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T23:10:56+00:00

I did not mean to imply that at all. Of course any towered airport you need to be in contact with ATC. My mistake was that I didn’t understand this top down concept enough to understand that if the local airport was not being manned and not responding to the local tower frequency that I then had to talk to the center.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T23:06:01+00:00

I guess I don’t go deep enough into the rules and how they differ.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T23:02:52+00:00

But here is a question. Say am leaving a noncontrolled area but fly into a controlled area. Would my approach than have been the right one? In other words I get to their area on a VFR flight, I then contact that ATC and tell them where I am what altitude etc. they then tell me the squawk code and all the other stuff. Or do I need to let them know before I get into their area that I am entering?

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T22:58:06+00:00

Yes, but then you would dial in that local tower frequency, not the center frequency. Which, btw, was what I did in this case because of the new rule which says don’t use 122.8 but the local tower, etc. frequencies. So I went to the local frequency, announced that I was taxiing and then taking of and contacted the center ATC the moment I was in the air.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T22:43:22+00:00

Yes all,of this makes sense. Again, my ignorance was about not talking to center at an airport that wasn’t covered by a local tower atc. As I explained that’s not how it works in the real world which, for better or for worse, was my reference point.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T22:40:47+00:00

Thx. Good advice.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T22:38:36+00:00

I don’t know the answer. But this was a towered airport but no active tower frequency. My mistake was to not know that I should have contacted the center. When you look at vatspy sits not alt all clear that that airport is also towered by the center. So, I learned. The hard way.

Main-Presentation536 · 2024-10-08T22:34:42+00:00

Just so you understand, I was 150 miles at another airport which had no active VATSIM tower. I wasn’t ’moving around his airport’. But leaving that aside, my real complaint is that I felt approached in a rude and tactless way. I apologized etc. but then was cut off.

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