Life in Europe is great!

Tim,

 

I loved the concrete picture of gravitas!  Usually, here in the US, we would plumb the fuel and oil systems for inverted flight whilst carrying the laminar flow disrupting old bags.

 

Metric is lovely since my Honda motorcycle, manufactured in Ohio (a small eerie state in the US), is very metric.  Of course, all of the chrome add-ons are held by "english fixments."  At least you get to use only one system and multiples of 10 - like who has twelve fingers or toes?

 

Since your Kilometer sized complaints puts you in knots, move abroad - come to the US.  You may easily enter by driving a large truck (with your Lancair inside) across the US border with Mexico.  If you like cooler temps, get thee to Canada and cross anywhere, although Niagra Falls is the most romantic crossing if you bring your wife.

 

Fuel here is cheap if you put it on your wife's credit card.

 

Good luck staying in Europe, it can't possibly last much longer since coming out of the dark ages so long ago.

 

At least you don't have Presidential TFRs (temporary flight restrictions) that pop up willy-nilly.  Just think of the possibilities - An F-16 escort to the nearest airport or else!  Of course, here we are truly "experimental" and I am mounting a pair of Skurvy Air-to-Air Missiles on each wing. Made by Glock, they will provide the appropriate self-defense and certainly keep others from cutting me out of the pattern.

 

Skoal,