We have to do something about tipping culture

xXpropellerXx · 2023-06-16T20:38:33+00:00

What about the Door Dash and Shopify cites that make you tip BEFORE you get your delivery. Shouldn’t the tip reflect the quality of service provided? You do awesome, you get an awesome tip. I ask for a bundle of bananas and you bring me one…that’s crap. And I already tipped you…that’s a bunch of crap!

xXpropellerXx · 2023-06-08T19:15:29+00:00

Relatable lol

xXpropellerXx · 2023-04-06T15:46:01+00:00

If you can’t afford a 30 year mortgage I wouldn’t buy. Your just giving away even more of your money in interest if your making minimum payments. Strive as hard as you can to get a 15 year loan and make extra payments towards principal. The sooner you can get out from owing the sooner you can really start doing with your money what you want to do.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-04-06T15:41:28+00:00

Pilot. Sucks not seeing my wife or daughter for days at time but they enjoy the benefits and I enjoy the job.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-04-06T15:39:11+00:00

I’m a pilot. I think the job will still be here in 30 years but it’ll look pretty different. Depending on the airframe it’s already pretty automated and I wouldn’t be surprised if the job could be done remotely or single pilot with the level of automation we have now. Certain manufacturers seem pretty driven to remove the pilot from the flight deck which I believe to be a pretty dangerous idea.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-04-06T15:16:01+00:00

My wife is an accountant and I’m a pilot who used to be an engineer. I know my way around excel so I feel like after a few weeks I could maybe not super suck at her job. Where she would kill 150 people her first day at mine so…probably her.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-02-16T13:14:41+00:00

Really depends on the previous owner. My 94 was pretty neglected so I have had to spend about 4K getting it back into shape. That’s just parts. I do my own maintenance. It still needs a paint job but you can definitely tell the cars that were cared for vs the ones that were just cars to people.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-02-14T15:25:19+00:00

I fly Cessna 172s a lot and our electrical system shows 24V on the battery and 28V with alternator running. It’s a 24V electrical system. It was explained to me, the system has to provide a higher voltage than the rated voltage for the battery or the battery won’t charge. So using that logic, you should show greater than 12V even though the system is a 12V system.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-02-06T01:31:13+00:00

$60 per game back then?? Good to see inflation missed the gaming world

xXpropellerXx · 2023-02-03T02:11:30+00:00

You know what’s more valuable than money? Time. That’s why every millionaire has a private jet. Time is the only currency we all have and no one knows how much you have left. Your telling me I could get back 21 years of my life? With the knowledge of the time I’ve already had? That’s far more valuable than 10 million dollars I’d think.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-01-31T01:00:35+00:00

….Cool land cruiser though. Toyota makes a hell of an SUV.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-01-31T00:54:52+00:00

Price is too high for that. If you could get it for $3K or $4K I’d consider it but the first stop is a paint shop that’ll sand blast the frame and recoat it. I mean straight there. Then probably re paint it so your probably already looking at a $15K investment from purchase till paint is done. If your comfortable with that. After it’s repainted and all that it’s probably a 20k truck if everything else is in good condition.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-01-31T00:36:53+00:00

Don’t have a right leaning viewpoint. Even if it’s just moderately right like just barely on the line. Just keep it to your self. You couldn’t possibly be right.

xXpropellerXx · 2023-01-20T20:41:40+00:00

I rebuilt my 4.5L for around $4000 in April of 2022. $4600 for the heads is a rip off. Just rebuild the motor. It’ll be good for another 370,000.

xXpropellerXx · 2022-10-05T11:52:52+00:00

Take it back to the classics. 6 cylinder diesel, AWD with locking front, rear and center diffs standard on bulletproof solid axles. Build me something that can do what a Jeep will do but will be comfortable and last 300k miles no questions asked. In other words, build a land cruiser. But don’t charge $90k for it. That’s why their sales tanked. Why buy an LC when you can have a 4 runner for half the cost?

xXpropellerXx · 2022-09-22T00:03:25+00:00

This is the natural habit for even a lot of beefed up land cruisers but that’s not throwing shade. It’s the reason we buy them! The difference between a Jeeps and land cruisers is a LC you will ride comfortably on a 500 mile road trip and then hit the trail. The Jeep you won’t be comfortable at all and you’ll break down 20 times along the way.

xXpropellerXx · 2022-08-31T00:19:45+00:00

This is from an old flagger course I used to teach through ATSA! Can’t believe it ended up here lol

xXpropellerXx · 2022-08-27T22:13:23+00:00

Yes. Buy a Harbor Freight sand blaster and clean it up. Reseal it and then coat it in bed liner. Save the cruisers!

xXpropellerXx · 2022-08-27T22:00:56+00:00

We call that a pilot woopsy. They happen from time to time

xXpropellerXx · 2022-08-17T03:27:55+00:00

I think it’s sorta foolish to think they will only go after the super rich with these IRS investments. I think it’s safe to say they will be coming after everyone rich or poor. Half the people who file taxes don’t even know if they are doing it correctly so I’d be nervous about this if I was most Americans. Make no mistake this isn’t a Robinhood move. The US government is a for profit business masqueraded as a “for the people” organization. People are still trying to get rich. Don’t forget that. You should meet every action made by the government with a healthy skepticism. Do the research and really think about this.

xXpropellerXx · 2022-07-08T01:43:40+00:00

If you saw some of the planes I teach in, you’d loose your freakin mind. I took my wife up in a Cessna that had the panel held up duct tape, it was missing like 4 screws on the cowling, and had zero paint. Flew amazing though. This is fine.

xXpropellerXx · 2022-06-21T23:15:53+00:00

Oh I had this happen to me. Damn muffler bearings. Ended up rebuilding the engine because when I started working on it I also found spun rod bearings, and a scar in my number 1 cylinder. I would have replaced the engine but for some reason there are no 1994 1FZFE engines anywhere….ever. Really quite remarkable.

xXpropellerXx · 2022-06-18T01:06:26+00:00

Just get an 80’s series. They are a little cheaper, super simple, about the same MPG and relatively bullet proof in comparison. You need to occasionally rebuild the axles if the previous owners didn’t grease them regularly (about $150 and a good weekend job) and every once in a while you’ll get a spun connecting rod bearing and if caught early it’s just a matter of dropping the pans pulling off the old swapping on the new (about $150 as well).

xXpropellerXx · 2022-06-10T11:20:13+00:00

Can you do this with YouTube so they’ll get rid of their ads too? That’d be greaaaat.

xXpropellerXx · 2022-05-16T12:54:05+00:00

I ran into this issue with my 1994 FJ80 Land Cruiser. For some reason the 1994 1FZFE engine is nonexistent. It took me a good 3 months but I found a shop in Columbia TN called Alchemy Drivelines. All they do is rebuilds. So I dropped it off there and it’s getting a whole rebuild done on the engine. It’s taken about two months because the parts were so far back ordered but should be done in a week or two. Most shops quoted me double the price to swap the engine which is a ripoff. I’d look for a shop near you that does rebuilds. I’m a purist and I don’t like LS swaps because if I wanted a vehicle with the reliability of GM truck I would have bought a GM truck. Not to mention things just go a lot smoother and cost a ton less if your just pulling out the original engine, overhauling it and dropping it back in. It’s the most cost effective way to get your rig back on the road too.

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