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I’m dairy free and pescatarian to help limit my IBS symptoms. Is there something I should be taking to replace the vitamins I’m missing from not eating meat and dairy? I eat seafood 1-2 times a week and I eat about 2 eggs per week. Thanks!!

I appreciate this question, TurboTBag. It would be more about my mindset than a specific career. I felt I had to have it all together and all figured out in my 20s. I felt like I was behind and that everyone was thriving while I was confused and trying to figure out my strengths and passions in the workforce. If I could travel back in time I'd tell myself that I do not have to have it all figured out, especially in my 20s, and that nobody else does either. I would also tell myself to be proud of the jobs I had because they were not any less meaningful or "impressive" than anybody else's jobs.

If you could travel back in time and give your younger self career advice, what would that advice be?

Hi BaconTacoLove! I drink black iced coffee with a few drops of organic liquid stevia. I avoid the creamers and sweeteners that add up to a lot of calories and spike your blood sugar. I enjoy iced vs. hot simply out of personal preference. I enjoy Stevia as it is an all-natural, non-caloric sweetener that studies have shown to be safe for consumption with no side effects (unlike artificial sweeteners that cause gas and bloating, and have been shown to be carcinogens).

What's your coffee drink and why?

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Do fires behave differently in different climates?

For example does it burn differently in equatorial climate compared to other climates?

Is fire a friend or foe?

Ty. Where's the best place to learn more about this?

SR71 decommission in the 1990s.

I've controlled about everything. Mostly military, including:

Uh-1

AH-1

H-60

H-46

H-53se & d

H-47

A-10s

F-18s

F-14 or two

C-130

lots of C-planes

Air Show planes

Foreign Military planes

Wierdest was probably the Russian IL-76s that brought supplies into Iraq when I was there. Those MFers sometimes didn't listen to instructions. I did pull one IL-76 pilot out of his plane and offer to pistol-whip his dumbass after he tried to land on about 20 Marines and Sailors on a closed Runway. They were know to drink while flying.

It's Wing In Ground; I think it's because ground effect does happen when a regular plane flies close to a surface, but this craft is designed so that it's optimized specifically to keep the wing in the ground effect, or at least that's how I think of it.

International Maritime Organization

https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/WIG.aspx#:~:text=WIG%20craft%20is%20a%20multimodal,which%20are%20intended%20to%20utilize

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle

I'm in Ontario, Canada. We have a lock system with a lot of shipping from the Atlantic, and the Great Lakes. My thought is that it might be possible to use WIG in specific narrowly defined use cases: a large cargo WIG drone could in theory move goods faster and more efficiently than cargo ships; it would be slower than a regular plane but again, much more efficient because the engine doesn't need to provide any lift.

I live fairly near to an airport on the lake, and I have some bushland up North fairly near to another airport on a lake. I was wondering if I were to build a drone or a ship, and I kept it under 400 ft at all times and 95% of the time within say a wingspan or two of the surface of the water, if I'd piss off the air traffic controllers. I wouldn't fly anywhere near the airport from my perspective. I think you answered my question!

I do think if I built it, it would need a maritime transponder of some kind but I have to look into that; in either case, both airports would be accustomed to regular maritime traffic, I expect this would be no different from their perspective, but I was a little bit concerned about the potential of upsetting the military.

Thanks

Thx for sharing! Yep, no telling how many American lives army pilots saved in GWOT.

Apparently my FAA Control Tower License isnt proof enough?

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that.

Not just no, but hell to the no nono.

Military pilots that I know are the absolute best and batshit craziest at flying in "uncontrolled" airspace or out in the woods. The problem Military pilots worry about in alot of US uncontrolled airspace is other VFR civil pilots and the traffic hazard that they can be when in close proximity and low altitude.

What type of aircraft did you supervise during your career? You've mentioned an OH-58 Helicopter. The SR-71 is absurd because it's a ridiculously rare and expensive aircraft for recon and high altitude flight made in the 1970's.

See any fighter jets, gunships? Anything on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or Drones?

Im confused by the "WING in Ground". Is it possibly "With In Ground" effect? Ground effect is a thing.

To answer your question, unless there was a secondary transponder transmitting position data on board the vehicle, no friggin way.

One day the weather went bad and I was the lone student pilot in a room full of twin turbine military pilots. We talked about the differences in our worlds and it seemed to come down to airspace and controllers.

To my surprise, they found flying into uncontrolled airports quite uncomfortable. In their own words, it seemed like they were much more directed, than self-directed.

Does it seem like that from the Controller's point of view?

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Well, I do go to work in exchange for a pay check, just like you do.

A note about the 6% tho: half of that is designated for the buyers broker, the other half for the sellers broker (generally), That means, if I represent the seller, my company gets 3% of the sale price when we are closed.

My cut of that is 64% of that 3%, before I pay taxes OR expenses (like paying for photoshoots, videos, floorplans, virtual tours, flyers, signs marketing specific to the property, and employees.

So, on a $400k sale, my Company makes $12k. Of that I get $7680. Then I pay taxes (35%) leaving $5376 to pay expenses, employees, then finally, myself.

Average Realtor sells about 8 a year. If I'm average in this business, I'm poor.

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I'm interested in a vehicle technology called WIG(Wing in Ground) or GEV(Ground Effect Vehicle).

These craft come in different form factors. I really like the look of the reverse delta. It looks a lot like a seaplane, but the wings are shaped a little bit differently. Instead of being shaped to provide lift like a regular plane, they are shaped to force the air underneath the craft, when the craft is over a flat surface this creates a bubble of air underneath it. It "floats" on this bubble of air like an air hockey puck. It's similar to a hover craft, except a hover craft is designed so that the engine itself forces the air under the hover craft. With a WIG, usually the engine placement means that the majority of the time the engine is providing thrust to move the craft forward, not create lift. The actual shape of the craft forces the air underneath; this is not flying according to the technical or legal definition of flight. As such, a pilots license is not technically or legally required in most jurisdictions; it's licensed as a power boat.

So I guess the question is: would regular air traffic control detect a craft like a WIG travelling just above the surface of the water?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-sWokqiVHw

Ok. Army OH-58, landed on my Runway, I turn him off on a Taxyway to the airfield Ops pad and hand him off to Ground Control. 15 seconds later I look back to see knucklenuts OH-58 pilot has taken a 2nd right turn onto the perimeter road and is taxiing before a ford F150.

I've seen some Army pilots do some really dumb things. Then, in a combat zone, I saw them do some fucking awesome things.

I've never thought of them as stupid. They are essentially "Names" for airports and Runways. The runway numbers are particularly useful, because they are derived by the magnetic heading of that Runway, so the name of it alone provides pilots with usable information in the moment.

Example: VFR Pilot calls 5 miles inbound to the airport with no information. I greet him say, "(Callsign) AskMeAnything Tower, wind 270 at 10, make a right base for runway 25."

Pilot knows immediately I am setting him up with the duty runway and a good wind touchdown.