Shit...

Between crap like this, and all the expense and hassle with airplane ownership, I'm just about to the point of shitcanning all the airplane stuff, and spending my money on the Honda Rubicon. $3.00 worth of gas will get me out in the desert and mountains all day, and I can drink beers while doing it.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Shit...

Between crap like this, and all the expense and hassle with airplane ownership, I'm just about to the point of shitcanning all the airplane stuff, and spending my money on the Honda Rubicon. $3.00 worth of gas will get me out in the desert and mountains all day, and I can drink beers while doing it.

Gump

Hey Gump,

I DID IT! And I'm not sorry.....yet. Except, I got a Rokon instead...it'll go places you'll NEVER get your Rubicon....

Sold the 180 in July and amazingly enough I haven't missed flying so far....maybe 40 years is enough.

Take care,

Rocky

Yeah, 38 years and just shy of 18,000 hours. That thought keeps getting stronger and stronger.

The little Rubicon is great in this west/central part of Nevada. Had it down here for four years now, running between 4,500 and 12,000 feet, and I have about 5K fun and completely trouble free miles on it. The more I explore this part of the country, the more I come to love it.

Gump

RockyTFS wrote:I got a Rokon instead...it'll go places you'll NEVER get your Rubicon....

I don't think I'd ever want to go where I can't get the Rubicon

Mr Scout has one too, and we have ridden into some amazing places.

Gump

More fast track to socialism !!!!!
I think the TSA is just keeping pace with O'Canada
Flying is such an escape from everyday problems what a shame we our loosing this one time freedom.

Sad, but oh so true....

But our little four-wheelers are a surprisingly good substitute, sometimes even better.

Gump

I can tell you of a national forrest in NM that the park authority closed many of the trails. Even your atv's are being stopped from use in public arenas

What I want to see is TSA butting up against a sprayer who happens to be running an AT 802 (GW 16,000 plus) over security and screening..... .

Freaking morons, but they scream "Terrorists" and "9/11" and everyone pees their pants and goes along.

Meanwhile, our ports are basically wide open, as are our borders, to anyone with a half a brain.

Send your congressional reps a note, folks, and tell em to get their heads out of their butts.

MTV

7853H wrote:I can tell you of a national forrest in NM that the park authority closed many of the trails. Even your atv's are being stopped from use in public arenas

Good ole Harry Reid and other dirtbags unknown are trying the same thing here in western Nevada. Oh well, budgets are so tight there won't be any rangers around to give me a ticket for riding along some old dirt road. All the years of busting FAR's will be good training for becoming a a lawbreaker with another set of regs.!!!

Gump

mtv wrote:What I want to see is TSA butting up against a sprayer who happens to be running an AT 802 (GW 16,000 plus) over security and screening.....

It'll be easy... They arrest him, confiscate his airplane, and revoke his certificates. If they don't, the terrorists win.

Gump

You hang in there Gump -- keep bustin them regs ( not laws ) and maybe we'll end up in the same slammer.

Should have said gulag or concentration camp my mistake not keeping up with socialist change's and the new language

mtv wrote:.........Meanwhile, our ports are basically wide open, as are our borders, to anyone with a half a brain.........

well up here on the northern frontier of western washington, the border patrol/ICE/CBP (can't remember which is which) has highway checkpoints on the Olympic Peninsula, looking for (among other things) ilegal aliens. Man oh man, you should hear the liberals scream! "Civil rights", "nazi germany", etc etc. They even have the local county sheriff saying his outfit will not offer any assistance or aid to the BP. I don't see the problem with a BP checkpoint, they're just doing their job & if your papers are in order you'll be OK. How short people's memories are, the BP caught an alleged terrorist back in 1999 coming off the Victoria ferry in Port Angeles headed to LA with a trunk fulla explosives to blow up something in honor of Y2K.

Eric

If you haff done nutzing wrong, you haff nutzing to vorry about!

Seig Heil!!!



I'd say the vast majority of folks inconvenienced (and their rights smashed) are normal law-abiding drivers. A decent coyote would know better than to drive into a checkpoint. Yet another example of swapping liberty for imagined security.

hotrod150 wrote:Man oh man, you should hear the liberals scream! "Civil rights", "nazi germany", etc etc. They even have the local county sheriff saying his outfit will not offer any assistance or aid to the BP.

The situation is certainly making for some strange bedfellows, eh?