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To one (likely reader) and all.

So my AOPA membership expired because when I went in to renew, I couldn’t choose anything but the full AOPA membership (I only want the “student” Flight Training membership).

Finally, an email from AOPA stated that I could renew my Flight Training membership and provided a link to a page on which I could renew which led to this little catch-22:

That’s right: in order to renew my membership, I needed to be a current AOPA member, but in order to be a current AOPA member, I needed to renew and when I clicked “… here to renew now” I was informed that I needed to be a current AOPA member to access the renewal page and to click here to renew because my AOPA membership has expired and when I clicked … ad nauseam.

I don’t know now if I want to renew.

Ugh.

I wonder how precisely it is possible to calculate this little rule of thumb: “10–25° flap add more lift that drag. 25–40° flaps add more drag than lift.”

I once read that when the flaps are at the same degree of deflection as the aileron is when also deflected, the pilot gets the highest amount of left from the flaps. I think my batty instructor told me that before slamming home his shot of tequila (eight hours before he flew again, of course).

Wow, just … wow!