I’m aiming to keep this relatively free of politics, and hopefully focused on likely outcomes.

I’m passingly familiar with the Federal rule making process. I know the proposed rule in question has been through at least one public comment period, etc.

Given that the inauguration will be prior to the 2025Q1 expected final rule dates I’ve seen from various sources, I’m curious what the collective community thinks is likely to happen with the final rule.

If the proposed rule is likely to be issued as expected, I may delay starting training until that point - I read the proposed rule as opening up a wide variety of additional aircraft under LSA and it may benefit me to start in one of those additional allowed a/c.

If it will be tied up as an unknown for months or years, then starting under the current rules makes sense to me.

I have a Pantech laser printer that surprisingly works well for my purposes. Cartridges are page-limited to 1,600.

That’d be all well and good if I was printing A4 or letter, but my journal/calendar/binder is A5 for ease of carrying.

Half-pages == full pages as far as the cartridge is concerned.

Anyone aware of new chips and/or workarounds for these cartridges to make them appear usable to the printer?

Most printing is for my own reference anyway, so even if the last few pages are imperfect, nothing wrong with that.

Had a 300 page PDF that I wanted a paper version of to dog-ear, highlight, and study at length, but that’s a good 1/5 of the cartridge.

I’ve been considering this for a number of years. Light Sport, restrictions and all, suits my mission well -No need to stress over the medical, and I get to take some fairly capable planes into the sky. Travel is secondary and perhaps irrelevant - I’m 180lbs, and my wife is somewhat more, so in addition to a minima useful load beyond us, there are possible CG and balance issues as I understand it.

We don’t seem to have anyone giving lessons truly locally, but that’s fine. Let’s say I’m based near Chambana, IL. So far, available A/C look like this:

• Lots of Evektors
• one school has a Remos GX and Flight Design CTLS
• There’s a single Aeroprakt A22.

The latter is of some interest for me for personal reasons, and also seems a touch slower, but none of them give me pause, really.

I expect to use speed as a tool for enjoying being in the air, not because I’ve any need to quickly get from A to B.

I’ve looked over the generalities of ground school content - it’s not familiar to me already, but I can put in the necessary time and energy to learn it. I’ll be on disability for 4+ weeks soon following a minor surgery, so study time isn’t a problem.

Any instructor and plane will require a bit of a trip, which I’m fine with.

Several schools have caught my eye as at least worth a second look - curious if anyone has insight on any of these folks (or the airports they operate from):

• SRT Aviation Mt Vernon, IL
• CityWings.net Schaumburg, IL
• Jet Access Indianapolis, IN (and others)
• Sport Pilot Chicago Newark, IL
• St Charles Flying Svc St Charles, MO

They are all roughly equidistant from me, save the last one being a bit farther.

Also, how do I interview an instructor, aside from qualifications? I’m going in with minimal enough knowledge that I don’t know at least some of the obvious questions to ask.

For what it’s worth, LSA is a goal unto itself for my mission - no intention to use as a stepping stone to PPL, etc.

Thanks

Tired of wondering when the Big G will kill off GV, and now I also find myself needing to port a number quickly so I don't lose it (damned MFA backup SMS!).

3 numbers, a fax would be nice though I can take it or leave it. Basic autoattendant would be nice, voicemail and transcription, etc.

Really, I'm just looking for the features that have been bundled for years on the consumer side, and without nickling/diming me to death on it - and without Google.

Amazon's call center product is interesting, but more than a little heavy for me. I hate to go all-in on a self-hosted PBX when I don't really have the need. Not to mention I've still got to pay for the DID if I do that..

Used RingCentral for many years, and wasn't impresses. That was a while back, I hear they've improved somewhat, but the experience still left a bad taste.