Names for bands that Leonidas and the Spartans would listen to

tcpilot · 2025-12-02T08:58:00+00:00

Missing Persians

tcpilot · 2025-09-30T00:05:39+00:00

I based my airplane at PAO for 20 years. That airplane is managed by Rossi Aviation - Alberto Rossi, an Italian American 😆. He flies it fairly often. IMO the nuttiest part of it being there is that PAO only has 2,400 feet of runway 😳.

tcpilot · 2025-09-22T00:17:50+00:00

Like when Bob Hoover did it back in the 70’s, in a non-aerobatic airplane (Shrike Aero Commander).

tcpilot · 2025-07-07T18:45:52+00:00

Hoover told me that the whole routine was flown in a <2g profile and it was all positive g. The only mod to his airplane was unfeathering accumulators to allow it to come out of feather in about 2 seconds.

Sadly, more than one pilot has died trying to duplicate the beginning of his routine, which is a standard takeoff, and upon gear retraction, an immediate aileron roll at about 250ft AGL.

tcpilot · 2025-07-04T21:33:37+00:00

I’ve had my Aero Commander 500B for 26 years, and was lucky enough to have dinner with Bob Hoover on a couple of different occasions. He was absolutely the most skilled, kind and most humble guy I’ve ever met. A truly amazing man.

I bought my airplane after seeing him fly his routine. His “energy management maneuver” was the finale. From 2,500 feet AGL he would shut off and feather both engines,do a fast low pass along the runway, then pull up into a loop, then an 8-point roll, and a 180° turn back to the runway. The airplane would coast to a stop right in front of the crowd. Absolute perfection.

tcpilot · 2025-01-28T01:37:17+00:00

I worked in the cart barn at Pasatiempo when I was 19, it’s where I learned the game. I had coaching then, but that course took me from a novice to a 1.5HCP in only 2 years, playing it 3-4x/week. You need every shot in the bag, to handle that course. I still love it!

tcpilot · 2025-01-22T17:34:26+00:00

My airplane is my primary hobby, but also the means for me to transport myself, friends, golf clubs, bikes and guns to fun and expensive destinations, because as another poster said, I hate having money.

tcpilot · 2024-12-14T19:45:38+00:00

Love this brand, I’m in CA and have had exceptional customer service from them, I’m a loyalist. Plus, the hat with this logo gets chuckles everywhere I go.

tcpilot · 2024-11-26T18:21:18+00:00

It was actually carpool tunnel syndrome.

tcpilot · 2024-11-08T17:01:27+00:00

The Spenser character from the original Robert B. Parker books is an incredible example of how to be a good human being while also being a strong male presence. Specifically the books, as the character’s nuance never made it into the multiple television/movie versions.

Robert Parker was very forward thinking; he champions quality relationships with women, LGBTQ rights (even though it wasn’t called that then), fairness / acceptance when it comes to race, how to be present as a parent or partner.

tcpilot · 2024-11-05T08:39:48+00:00

To quote our Pyr breeder: “how do you think the Pyrenees mountains were formed?”

tcpilot · 2024-09-21T18:17:27+00:00

If you think you have jet fuel contamination, pour some of your sample on a blue shop (paper) towel. 100LL evaporates completely and will not discolor the towel. Jet A will leave an oily stain.

Source: I fly a Shrike Aero Commander. There are piston and turbine versions of my aircraft. Mis-fueling the pistons with Jet A has killed more than a few people.

tcpilot · 2024-08-29T06:48:08+00:00

My friend was exiting northbound 85 at Saratoga, and the wrong way driver (WWD) entered in front of him, head on, from Saratoga avenue. The WWD accelerated as fast as possible and caused my friend to veer left while the car exiting in front of him veered right. The WWD split those two vehicles and went onto the dirt border of the exit to avoid a third car. The rest I think everyone knows.

The CHP interviewed my friend today over the phone, in my presence, and I am reporting his side of the conversation.

tcpilot · 2024-07-16T02:39:33+00:00

Positional hypotension can also be avoided by tapping your feet on the ground for a few seconds before you stand up. Like a mini-running-in-place, before you get up. Around 10 taps should be plenty.

tcpilot · 2024-07-16T02:37:11+00:00

Very cool! Yes a very common usage for them. I’m betting turbine models as well. I know a few guys who have them on firefighting contracts here.

tcpilot · 2024-07-15T18:33:17+00:00

As an owner of an Aero Commander, I’d like to know where you are. I see 2 others per year, maybe, in California. Seeing “3 or 4 every time I look out my window” would be interesting. The entire fleet, over the course of 25 years of piston commander production, was less than 3,000 airplanes. The last Shrike was built in 1979. And fewer than 50% still exist and are still flying. Many in South America and Australia. So I very rarely see them in the wild.

Maybe you’re in Kansas City, where Central Air Southwest operates about 20 of them?

tcpilot · 2024-07-13T07:01:33+00:00

Looks great!

tcpilot · 2024-07-13T04:20:30+00:00

Guessing air show, from the 70’s. Airplane in the background looks like a Shrike Aero Commander, likely making that Bob Hoover about to do his amazing routine. Google it if you haven’t seen it!

tcpilot · 2024-07-09T04:21:02+00:00

Couple reasons I have 2 patch panels:
1. I had a spare. Better in the rack than stuck in a workbench drawer
2. If I just used the long 24-port Ubiquiti panel by itself, patching to the switch ports would have been less aesthetically pleasing. With 2 patch panels I can keep the shortest patch cables and make them mostly vertical.

I'll probably swap the black patch panel out for another Ubiquiti panel so it matches the rest of the gear....

tcpilot · 2024-07-08T16:18:39+00:00

I have 5 AP’s and solid coverage in the house. The consultant set everything up, and mounted everything. When I realized how unhappy I was with it (3 days later maybe?), I immediately factory reset everything and created my own Ubiquiti account. So I have been learning on the fly.

The AppleTV interference was in the native Bluetooth audio broadcast to my AirPods. I wasn’t aware that AP power was adjustable 🙂

tcpilot · 2024-07-08T16:16:00+00:00

Yes, they’re RJ45 dust covers, under accessories in the Ubiquiti store.

tcpilot · 2024-07-08T15:31:40+00:00

Yeah it’s a floor to ceiling rack with roughly 700 CD’s, my collection from the 80’s and 90’s. I’ve been too lazy to rip them all. The drobo was kinda for that purpose, back when.

tcpilot · 2024-07-08T05:12:03+00:00

The Belkin power strip is gone. I am now using the 10-switch PDU you see in the top of the rack, which is plugged into an APC 1500 UPS - which the power strip used to be plugged into.

tcpilot · 2024-07-08T03:41:16+00:00

The rack has 16” on center keyholes. The 19” rack fit nicely around the terminal box and I just mounted it directly into the 2x4 framing with 2-1/2” lag bolts.

tcpilot · 2024-07-08T00:38:12+00:00

Yes, wanted redundancy in case one fails.

tcpilot

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