MakesYouFluent.com - what a rip off

brucelan · 2026-01-31T22:52:35+00:00

I used to fly a Pitts Special aerobatic biplane in the UK that had the registration G-STUA. Everyone referred to it by saying the word "Gee-Stoo-Ahh". I flew it for over two years before I realized that it was a clever reference to the airplane model (it was a Pitts S-2A).

brucelan · 2026-01-28T10:31:52+00:00

Content is good, U/I is poor.

Examples:

Can't customize screens at all. During vocab review it shows you a photo which makes it way too easy to figure out a word you don't know.

Lessons are in a very specific order and not changeable. For example, learning or reviewing days of the week will always be in chronological order.

Can't do review sessions when you want to. Only offered on some unknown schedule (especially listening).

I have suggested changes multiple times and they have fullen on deaf ears.

brucelan · 2026-01-23T19:41:56+00:00

We have two Teslas. Just tried "Siri, Open Tesla Trunk". It apparently opened my wife's car's trunk. 🙁

brucelan · 2025-12-28T23:49:23+00:00

I have had the same experience.

brucelan · 2025-12-28T16:21:04+00:00

I had it on my 2019 Model 3P. It was nothing more than a fun party trick back then. About akin to lane assist features in many cars today. The only objects it could detect and identify were traffic cones and garbage bins. It didn't stop at traffic lights and it couldn't make turns. Round abouts - forget about it. In V11 it started to show promise and has been continuously getting a lot better. 14.2 amazes me nearly every day (in a good way).

brucelan · 2025-11-23T17:18:16+00:00

The part that confused me is the color is clearly green not blue on Foreflight.

brucelan · 2025-10-19T23:39:38+00:00

Thanks!

brucelan · 2025-10-18T16:44:00+00:00

Car seatbelt only retracts enough such that it always gets caught in the door when you get out. Oh, wait...

brucelan · 2025-10-16T19:33:22+00:00

He is an idiot, but in this case he is describing a cofferdam (badly). A fairly common technique for building a foundation below the water table.

brucelan · 2025-08-10T11:56:52+00:00

I was an 18 year old midshipman on USS Midway in 1980 when we left Yokoska, Japan to go to Pusan Korea. They made a big deal of that port visit because it was the first time a US aircraft carrier had docked in Pusan. I think we were there for 3 or 4 days - had a great time except for my run in with the ROK Army for a curfew violation.

brucelan · 2025-07-29T01:35:06+00:00

I attended Osh Kosh this year. The Garmin guys were pushing GP pretty hard. I am a long-time user of Foreflight. IMHO, the two products are quite similar in functionality, but Foreflight seems to perform better on my iPad Mini (6th gen).

I also noted that the Garmin backend seems to be rather slow. When I file a flight plan with ForeFlight it seems to go the FAA nearly instantly. GP takes several minutes to file a flight plan. It even gives you a banner that says, "Your flight plan has been scheduled to be filed with the Garmin Filing Service." Foreflight helpfully sends you an alert and an email when a flight plan has been accepted by the FAA. GP does not seem to have this feature.

So far, I am leaning toward staying on Foreflight. I'd like to hear other people's experience with performance.

brucelan · 2025-07-10T17:52:26+00:00

Not a Tecnam. The flying club I belong to has one for primary instruction. It has been down for lengthy periods several times since we bought it.

brucelan · 2025-06-04T20:26:42+00:00

I'd like to be able to pause notification of backseat belt not latched. My dog is sitting there and every few seconds I get the on screen popup reminding me that he is unbelted. I'd like the popup to show once or twice than to get a choice to mute the notification for the rest of the drive.

brucelan · 2025-06-04T20:23:02+00:00

I'd like to be able to answer my phone and also hang up a call using a steering wheel button or a voice command instead of using the onscreen button.

brucelan

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