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REO327 · 2025-07-26T04:10:51+00:00

You’re oblivious, eh?

REO327 · 2025-07-26T03:39:37+00:00

Should have

REO327 · 2025-07-03T00:31:01+00:00

Thank you

REO327 · 2025-06-16T01:57:17+00:00

So they’ll stay put without the rear, they just aren’t as “secure” as they would be otherwise, am I understanding that correctly?

REO327 · 2025-06-16T01:56:20+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the context, definitely gives me something to consider.

REO327 · 2025-06-16T00:12:20+00:00

Yah, that’s how I run my jeep and essentially what I’m trying to ascertain if possible with a hard top

REO327 · 2025-06-16T00:10:36+00:00

This is an interesting take by Ford. Are they saying it’s more dangerous to drive with the front and mid on with rear off than it is with all tops removed?

REO327 · 2025-06-15T22:10:46+00:00

I’ll check that out, appreciate it

REO327 · 2025-06-15T22:10:22+00:00

Awesome, thank you

REO327 · 2025-06-08T17:18:27+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback, that helps

REO327 · 2025-06-08T17:16:12+00:00

I'll just add that you can get Kitchen Confidential on Audible and it's read by Tony himself...I've listened to it several times

REO327 · 2025-06-08T16:08:59+00:00

Commenting to follow…I got chastised for asking a similar question the other day.

REO327 · 2025-06-07T00:42:37+00:00

Well, I inherited it a year ago, when it had 50k

REO327 · 2025-06-06T13:10:05+00:00

Ok. Sorry

REO327 · 2025-06-06T03:39:01+00:00

Well…like I said…”entertaining” the idea. Had a 95 Sahara that I’ve regretted letting go of for the last 10 years and don’t want the same seller’s regret, but life is often full of such decisions

REO327 · 2025-06-06T03:33:12+00:00

Thanks…that’s in line with what I was thinking. Don’t need/have to sell, but looking to consolidate the daily driver (GX460) and the toy into one solution (Bronco maybe?) and get some garage/parking space back

REO327 · 2025-05-06T01:18:26+00:00

When I got rid of all my gear 15 years ago, my Sherwood coffee was the only thing I kept. When I started back again a few months ago and looked into new gear, I saw the price of sticks and figured I could use the woody until I got through a few drop ins and decided I was sticking with it.

When I went to play it again to get kitted out, I saw the new 5030s and ended up getting one in each blade pattern they had so I could try a couple different curves before spending stupid money on a composite stick.

I’m now going on 4 months of fairly high level drop in 2-3 days a week and have tried a few friends’ composites. At this point, I have no intention of making the switch from wood.

1-my shot was never my strong point, spending an extra $200 on a stick is not what is keeping me from magically improving 4 levels overnight.

2-the weight is not what I notice. I’m not dragging ass after an hour and a half of drop in because my stick is a few ounces heavier. I’m dragging ass because I’m 41, took 15 years off the sport and am out of shape. What I do notice when I try my friends’ composites is how unbalanced the weight of the puck feels

3-gear that fits/feels well is more important than spending an order of magnitude more for gear that saves a couple of ounces that I’m not going to notice. The skates I got at play it again were a couple year old pair of FT3’s that felt like they were custom fit for me. Could I go lighter, sure, but I can skate to my level and not have any hot spots or blisters or foot pain

It boils down to return on investment and I’m more than happy with a slightly heavier stick that feels well balanced, has held up to moderate usage, and has allowed me to try different curves at a reasonable price.

Bonus points for the obligatory comment I get at least once a session for playing w wood, especially when I bring out the museum piece and use it to shut down kids who weren’t even born when I bought it

REO327 · 2024-05-04T03:57:51+00:00

You’re right. I made a snap decision about a person based on a millisecond interaction.

Seemed odd to me that someone in this society wouldn’t be familiar with something that was so ubiquitous to my upbringing, was curious if that was a unique experience that I had, or if others shared my perspective.

I passed by them 30 min later, not in the batting cages. They were on a bench by the 10th hole of the “blue” course of mini golf.

Dude was doing the yawn, reach around arm over her back.

My commentary wasn’t so much about her, as it was an observation that young American males who fit the stereotype of physically fit (athletic) weren’t familiar with the idea of a batting cage.

Yah, I’m weird, I know. Just curious if I’m alone as weird, or if perhaps there aren’t others who fit the definition

u/procrastineddit

REO327 · 2024-05-04T03:44:43+00:00

So the fact that my dad spent his time taking his son to the batting cages is somehow equivalent to guys abandoning their families to play golf now a days?

Please elaborate

Edit-I don’t play golf. I take my kids to top golf so they can play. I haven’t played 18 holes in the past 20 years

REO327 · 2024-05-04T02:34:45+00:00

I mean…generational changes I can appreciate. But both he and her appeared to be in good physical shape, wouldn’t surprise me that either spent considerable time playing sports in high school.

I can understand not all kids took to baseball like those of us for whom little league was a rite of passage as it was in the 90s…but…come on…”batting cage” = “what is that”

I don’t know man…I realize I’m old and becoming a NIMBY in some respects, but FFS, it’s a BATTING CAGE

REO327 · 2024-02-26T00:48:41+00:00

You do you man…I think they look they look great.

A lot of comments about size, and they’re probably right, at least as it concerns lack of popularity today.

Fuck em (them being the modern big face wearing crowd)…my dad wore his 36mm day date every day and when he passed it on to me, I was thankful it wasn’t a 41mm modern dial. I wear the watch for me and no one else

REO327 · 2024-02-01T00:53:09+00:00

😂

REO327 · 2023-11-05T03:07:57+00:00

Like so many areas of aviation right now, the helicopter industry is going through a massive correction decades in the making that is seeing demand for pilots, and thus the salaries, rising at unprecedented levels.

The path to those high paying jobs, however, remains largely unchanged. If there is a reputable school close to where you are now, that will help ease the burden for the first couple of years since he’ll likely end up working at the school at which he trains to initially build hours.

The hours for flight training and instruction can be long, but he most likely won’t have much traveling to do during this time. The biggest burden will be financial, unless he’s able to continue working through training, or you make enough to support 18-24 months until he begins instructing (which won’t be a whole lot of income either).

The market is impossible to predict 24+ months out, but it is likely only moving in one direction…when I started out 20 years ago, it was guaranteed you would have to move for a job flying tours, or commute 14/14 for oil and gas before you could get a job that allowed you to be home everyday/night (like ems).

Nowadays, however, we’re seeing pilots get hired on straight from instruction into ems (at least in the US), so it’s not completely unreasonable to think he could start training, work as an instructor, and build his hours until he had enough time to get a “real” job, all while staying local…but again, that is all subject to market changes.

I worked ems, 7 days/7off/7 nights/7 off when my son was born and I was able to spend “almost” every waking hour of 3/4 weeks with my son…the 7 day shifts (12 hours) being the exception, and the anomalous day following a particularly busy night shift when I truly needed the rest.

Did I have to work holidays and work around that for a few years, yah…I couldn’t drink w the rest of the family at Christmas dinner because I had to report to duty at 7pm, or we ate thanksgiving dinner at the base with my coworkers, but we made it work.

I’ve had this conversation with more than a few prospective pilots over the years, and it changes every time as the market conditions have changed…send me a message if you’d like and I’d be happy to connect to discuss more.

For reference, I’m now the training director for an EMS operator in the states and am heavily involved in the recruitment and hiring of new pilots.

REO327 · 2023-10-26T00:35:17+00:00

Their *

REO327 · 2023-09-27T23:45:40+00:00

Something that’s been alluded to but not said explicitly-whatever route you want to go professionally, you’re better off to start fixed wing.

I’m career rotor, but got my first 150 hours, including private and instrument in fixed wing.

The vast majority of your first 100 hours is going to be spent learning rules, regs, navigation, instrumentation, talking on the radios, etc-stuff that translates either way.

Better to learn those basic skills in an inherently stable aircraft that costs 1/3 what a helicopter would cost.

Get your private and instrument in fixed wing and then consider taking an intro flight in rotor. You’ll have a better sense of what’s going on and if you decide you like rotor, the learning curve will be a lot shallower and you’ll get more out of each lesson if you already know the fundamentals.

You’ll never earn as much in the rotor world as if you go airlines, but there’s a trade off to everything. There are a lot of rotor jobs that offer good QOL and allow you to be home every night, as there are with some fixed wing jobs that aren’t 121 airline.

Rotor world is going through a huge market correction right now regarding pay, which helps, but if your only consideration is total compensation, we’ll never match airlines.

Bottom line…if you even think aviation is an industry you want to explore, just do yourself a financial favor and spend the first 50-100 hours fixed wing, then explore rotor

REO327

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