[Boomer]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

Yea, I sit corrected on that. I call it a license because I keep relating it to the Ham Radio license I got about 60 years ago except that test seemed easy since they didn't care what the weather was at 20,000 feet or what an aircraft at 15,000 feet was experiencing. Although the certificate does give you privileges or "license (verb OR synonym)" to do things you can't without it.

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hey, Ed, whatever that piece of paper is called, when I read that you are studying for it, your post caused me to nag Mr. Boomer.

Mr. Boomer is a licensed, single-engine pilot, with an instrument rating, and a seaplane rating.

He bought a drone a while back. It cost a few bucks. (I don’t really want to know how much. It is the third drone he has owned so it definitely looks like an upgrade from the two he has given away. The first one was basically a toy, but that was years ago.) Anyway, he does not fly it much.

Last year, a wicked storm hit our northern neighborhood and caused a lot of roof damage. Some of the neighbors asked him to take some roof pictures for them. He did.

Even though he did not even consider charging for those pictures — and he never would, I would feel better if he covered his drone flying with the official paperwork.

So I just now asked him about this course.

Turns out he had already downloaded it from King Schools, just had not done anything with it yet. He said what pilots have to know for their licenses gives him a head start on the drone course.

Btw, he has 3 — I think it’s 3 — ham radio licenses. Some of the single-engine pilots we know also have ham licenses.

Now, go study! Both of you.

Boomer

Whoops. Now, I must stand/sit corrected, too. . .

I did not know what I was talking about when I said Mr. Boomer had 3 ham licenses. After I wrote that, I asked him. He said it is only 1 license because the last part overrides the first 2 — or some such thing — so it’s still one license.

(Had to get that correction out there before somebody tells me to go stand in the corner or whatever because I did not get things exactly right.)

Anyway, Ed, Mr. B. is at his desk working on the drone thing even as we speak. So, thank you. . .I think. . .there could be a new drone on his mind. . .

One thing can lead to another around here — like when I saw a Sawzall for the first time and innocently said, “That looks like it could be a handy tool.” Next thing I knew, I received one from Mr. B. as a gift. (I do not use power tools.) Fortunately, I have a sense of humor and we still laugh when he refers to it as, “your Sawzall.”

Boomer