Zakatak

Too many incentives to prop the foreigners up to own them. White man doesnt get the same treatment and thus its not as lucrative of a venture.

Still happening to me as well. Mainly when i click the forum drop down in upper right corner on mobile.

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Every red state needs to check the trucks coming in from California for illegal CDL at the weigh stations.

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Hell Louisiana could start right here with the sugar cane trucks. But the sugar cane mafia has strong lobby in baton rouge and that will never happen.

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Korean storekeepers are ready for any potential threat.

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From elevated vantage points

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Do you switch gas tanks mid flight normally? One runs out and you switch over? How does that work exactly I’m just curious?

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Many smaller private planes are set up with right and left wing tanks that feed into a small (2-3 gal) header tank. The header tank feeds the engine directly. You have the ability to switch a valve in the cockpit between right/left/both. Both is used for takeoff and landing and can be used for flight. The issue with both is that if flying a distance you may have one tank feeding faster than the other due to flight characteristics. Being able to isolate one tank gives you the ability to pull from one tank to balance out the weight distribution across the plane. It also allows you to pull from the good tank if you develop an issue in flight with the other.

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He filed flight plans to land at the "Stafford Airport" in Cankton.

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Thats a 2000ft (at best) grass strip. High transmission lines on the east end.

A twin beech is not filing a flight plan there. I think and hope thats just a fault with flight aware in that when a VFR flight results in a crash the software just assumes the destination is the nearest registered strip.

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I’m not an expert but my opinion based on the data is a stall/spin on downwind approach. VMC (minimum controllable speed) is close to that last datapoint of 102 mph.

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That graph indicates ground speed. So he could be flying 200mph vertically with 0 ground speed. Head winds and tailwinds affect GS numbers also. If he lost power at altitude like i suspect then he would have put it on a glide slope for max time aloft. Maybe even circled looking for available runways nearby or open fields.
The flight data numbers indicate a glide slope of -400 fpm for several minutes which is good. Im not sure what happened at the end. Maybe put the gear down and stalled it on final? Maybe tried to avoid power lines or houses. Maybe thought he could land on 98 or 93 but there is a lot of traffic on those two roads and changed his mind at the end.

All speculation. Just a plane nerd.

My favorite shirts all have a button down collar. I have several without buttons and they dont get worn anymore.

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Your story does seem unlikely because the state inspector, pump installer, and anyone with the store would have to be in on the con.

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This right here. Im in the industry. If its anything like how Louisiana weights and standards operates they will make annual or bi-annual inspection visits to check meter calibrations and give a certificate of approval. You can verify this by checking the sticker on the pump that has a year on it. If anything is out of code or compliance they put that pump out of commission until its fixed.

Not saying the station couldnt have paid an installer on the side for some shady work but seems unlikely and extremely difficult to keep a scam like that going.

Now what is more likely to happen is shady deal between station owner and delivery driver where they put regular in the premium tank. Thats less likely to get caught and been known to happen at some of these stations owned by lets say “non americans.”

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mudshuvl05

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Put him in front of my D6 and let's see.

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Name checks out!