u/cazzipropri

Hey guys please help I was trying to take off in the citation and called clearance delivery.

The dude didn't want to give me IFR clearance unless I wrote down his number.

So I went back to ground and asked to depart VFR.

The guy, like, followed me back to ground and held me there on the ground: he cleared other pylotes in front of me.

And then, when I had nobody else around to come to my defense, he gave me the number anyway, which was the most cowardly thing to do.

For context, he had already tried to give me his number days ago, and I made it abundantly clear I didn't want it. I couldn't be more clear in expressing my lack of romantic interest. Like, how many times do I need to say no? No is no! How is it possible that the federal government allows their employee such flagrant violations of anti-harassment laws?

They even sent me a car with someone in it who told me to call them. This is stalking, like felony level.

I told them I was going to file a complaint against them but it didn't deter them.

For context this happened in the state of California.

Thanks

1976 PA-32R-300 Piper Lance, 300 HP, 6 seats, based at KHPN.

A member is retiring in the co-ownership and is selling their share.

Plane is valued around $200k, levelled with the market per similar-vintage planes with low-time-after-SMOH engines per trade-a-plane.com. Expect to negotiate starting around 25% of that valuation.

This is a "family van" plane, with a useful load (1,399 lbs) that beats most other piston singles, and it's also a pretty fast plane for a normally aspirated piston single. It will actually fly six people.

Total Airframe time: 5867 hr.

Propeller time: 147 hr.

Engine time: 16 hr SMOH.

The engine has been just overhauled by Zephyr (https://www.zephyrengines.com), one of the most reputable overhaul shops in the country. The fresh engine performs notably better than before the overhaul.

The engine is an IO-540-K1G5D, normally aspirated, dual magnetos.
The post-overhaul break-in procedures were completed per Zephyr instructions without surprises.

(Stats up to date as of July 2026.)

Annual was completed in May 2026.

The plane has a tie-down contract at Million Air.

The current members all live in the KHPN/KDXR area.

Prior to the engine overhaul, the plane had no known squawks and flew regularly, including flights Chicago-NY at 17,000 ft.

6 seats (7th seat not installed). We acquired the supplemental STC necessary to fly it with BasicMed before BasicMed was extended to 7 seats.

Tank capacity is 98 gallons, 94 usable.

At economy settings, endurance can exceed 8 hours, and range can exceed 1,000 NM.

It has a 1,399 lbs useful load, which is one of the highest in this segment.

Avionics:

• Garmin GNS530 WAAS,
• one Garmin G5 unit configured as HSI
• separate COM2+NAV2 radio
• original Piper Altimatic IIIC autopilot driven via Garmin GAD29 digital/analog interface, capable of flying holds, instrument approaches with glide slope capture, and do turn anticipation
• Stand-by vacuum system
• Garmin GTX345 transponder
• GMA340 audio panel,
• JPI EDM 700 digital engine monitor.

Members are potentially discussing an avionics upgrade. Incoming member would join the discussion.

Solid IFR platform.

Plane is owned via a Corporation. and the incoming member would purchase the share from the outgoing one. You will negotiate the price directly with the outgoing member. Expect the price to be 1/4 of the market value of a contemporaneous Lance. Each member owns one share; usual partnership operating agreement terms; expect no surprises. The Corp has no liens, no debts, no financial obligations to anybody.

The notional, wet hourly rate that the Corp charges its own members to cover fuel, maintenance and engine reserves varies between $150/h and $200/h (Tach time) depending on fuel costs and accounting.

Fixed costs per member hover in the area of $1,200-$1,500 per member per quarter.
They cover for insurance, tie down, GPS navigational subscriptions and other recurring costs.

Historical annuals have been in the $10k-$20k area, depending on maintenance events and expiration of life-limited parts.

We are happy to talk to pilot applicants with any level of experience. We will happily take applicants without an HP endorsement, a complex endorsement and no prior PA32R time, but they will have to build time in type after joining the partnership, to satisfy insurance requirements. Expect the insurance to require 10...20 hours of dual received time before you can fly the plane solo.

A CFI/CFII is available in the partnership to help you qualify for insurance purposes.

The Lance flies like a big Archer and it's easy to land. If you have experience in a PA28, you'll learn the PA32R quickly and without much difficulty.

Scheduling works with "priority weeks": every week in a year gets attributed to one member in a round-robin rotation. Whenever you want to fly the plane, you can just go if it's your priority week. If it's not, you only need to ask the owner of that week. In many years, plane availability has never been a problem or a source of contention.

DM me for an introduction to the members and details on the plane.

I went to see the movie mostly out of curiosity and out of need for a distraction after a long day at work.

I was fully prepared to accept and enjoy a simple horror movie with little thinking, not a lot of depth, some cheap jump scares, relatively trite ideas (e.g., lost footage) and plot devices. I even mistakenly thought it the an adaptation of the video game, and was perfectly ok with that. I had low expectations.

Instead, I got so much out of the movie and I related to it so deeply.

The way I see it, the movie is about mental illness (and less serious psychological conditions) and it offers an extensive, substantive, satisfying development of at least a couple core ideas that are not easy to work on.

The movie is deeply relatable because we all have light psychological problems we need to solve (anxiety, loops we are unable to escape, behavioral prisons of our own making, inability to make peace with traumatic episodes of our past, etc.). In addition to that, many of us have experienced at least indirectly serious mental illness in a family member or a loved one.

The movie develops at least two themes, and in my opinion it does so well.

The first theme develops the world experienced by the person suffering from serious mental illness. They fully know that they are not well and they can't function normally. They fully know that the world as they see doesn't make sense. They struggle very much in their attempts to make sense of it. This nonsensical world makes them suffer, and very much so. They live in a reality that doesn't make sense and that frightens them.

A lot of therapy work consists of exploring this scary world that doesn't make sense to them, while living in fear and in the continuous frustration caused by this broken, malfunctioning reality.

I thought that the many qualities of the main character's obsessive fixation with descending and remaining into his broken world was relatable, and a way to empathize with those suffering from mental illness.

Others have criticized the movie for the slow rhythm. I think the slow rhythm is necessary. The path of therapy is frequently one of very slow progress, and frequently no progress at all. This is real. This is how many people suffering from mental health conditions go through their life.

The fact that this world is populated with distorted and malformed copies of people and events occurred in real life is, in my opinion, also very emblematic. The mental landscape of a person suffering from mental illness (but also less serious psychological conditions) is inhabited with incorrect representations of other people that exist in real life, and events that occurred in real life. We all live surrounded by potentially unfaithful memories of what really happened and how people in our lives are. People with mental illnesses suffer from even worse distortions of reality. From the outside, those distortions are evident... but for the person suffering, those distorted elements feel very real.

The sequence with the main character taking a stool from the backrooms into the regular world to prove (to their therapist? to themselves?) that they are not crazy, that the world they experience is real, is such a common, relatable experience for the therapy patient "this is the world I'm in - it might make no sense, it might be distorted, it might be full of incorrect perceptions but it is the reality I experience... to me, it's completely real. It is so hard to talk about it with others... it's so hard to prove to them I do see things that way"

Another theme developed pervasively (and, in my opinion, convincingly) in the movie is the theme of self-caused inprisonment: many psychological conditions consists in people forcing themselves into habit patterns that are unnecessary, don't achieve anything useful, are detrimental to us, make us miserable, and yet we can't easily resist them. We keep ourself in a mind prison of our own making.

I am sure that the movie has additional development themes that I either missed or that I was somehow blind to, as they didn't immediately serve the two main themes I was resonating to. For example, all the elements of the narrative setup (the research institute setting, the scientist seen at the end, the men in the hazmat suits, etc.). I'm fine with the movie speaking different languages to different people.

But on the couple of themes that I latched on, I thought the movie was very original, creative and imposing.

CPU in the system is:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz

This is customer feedback on your activation process for customers in rural areas.

I have requested internet in a remote location where I don't have mobile data.

I connect the modem, power it on, it gets a carrier and starts to propagate Wi-Fi signal (but of course no internet connectivity, because it isn't registered yet).

The only step left is for me to register the modem.

To register the modem, you want me to scan a QR code that guides me through a system of web pages. That doesn't work for me, because there's no mobile data service in the area. I normally run a cell booster, but that needs wired internet itself.

So I call customer service with the tiny sliver of mobile, voice-only service I have if I stay in front of the house, outside.

The voice menu is atrocious. I had to call back 5 times to get it right.

For verification, it asks me my PIN. "If you don't have the PIN, just log into your account" - which I can't.

After a lot of zeros and hashes I manage to circumvent PIN verification and get to a human.

The operator (who was nice and professional) needs the MAC address of the modem. He suggests I take a picture with my phone.

That's impossible: I can't walk into the house with my phone, or I'll lose mobile service and the call will drop.

I end up begging the operator to stay on the call, I leave the phone outside (hoping it doesn't drop the call), and walk in to get the number on a piece of paper.

Success. But it took 50 minutes to do something that would normally take a minute.

My feedback is that you need to think of a different process for rural areas.

Moreover, the entire registration seems very unnecessary because you already have the serial number of my modem (you are the ones sending it to me) - so you already have this information.

Published today.

Articles like these that make pre-canned claims with no numbers, no research work, no sources, unrelated stock images, signs of AI sloptext, and random posts from social media make me wonder what's behind them.

Why would someone invest time in generating contents like this?

What are the incentives?