Recent content by dbahn

I think the data so far at least supports that position. I wonder how that may change as pilots on Basic Med get further and further away from their initial certification as they age and become more likely to have more medical conditions that would disqualify them from certification using the...

Why wouldn't you?

As with any risk management, all of the variables need to be included in the decision making. Pilot xperience is a big one of those variables, but so is the aircraft, wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and many other factors. In 50 years of flying I've never relied on a "numerical" answer...

The "ambulance mod" is what gave me the idea of an emergency bunk in the PA-12 on floats, mentioned above. (PA-12 was originally designated J-5). Bears are scary if you're stuck all alone in the wildnerness.

You also have a slight degree of protection from bears, or at least we liked to believe so. When you read about bear attacks on campers in their tents it's frightening - not that bears can't rip through aluminum fairly quickly but it might have given us time to grab the shotgun . . .

Here's my inbox a few days ago from a completely clueless bonehead scammer or someone that has some kind of hidden trap that I can't figure out. o_O

I'm comfortable sharing that but I will need to dig those up, and I think it can shoot a coupled LPV approach but not sure I ever even tested that. Send me a PM if you have heard from me in a few days.

My wife and I have done it fairly extensively in the C206. With the front seats forward we put luggage on the seats and have lots of room to sleep comfortably in the cabin. On our first Vermont to Alaska trip we spent almost every night of the five weeks sleeping in the plane after realizing...

I'm certainly not too busy to put in the effort. I may need to seek help on sales agreements, escrow, etc., and Vermont apparently will expect me to collect sales and use tax, and if I fail to do so they can charge me for it.

I really appreciate the comments. They're very helpful and I'm certainly leaning towards doing it on my own, and the mechanic where I store it has offered to help. It's got lots of checkboxes - always hangared, no damage history, all maintenance logs, recent avionics upgrade with G500 +...

At least they’re not wearing pants.

This has probably been discussed here before, but I may be having to sell my 1975 C206 that I've owned for 40 years. I used a broker a few years ago to sell our PA12 on floats, but I recall the commission was quite high for not a lot of work, but the sale also went off without any bumps. Also...

"Situational depression", if that's what it was, is often a lot different than major depression. You need to convince the FAA that yours was the former, and the FAA only wants a professional opinion rather than your own.

And speaking of Pawnees, last year I had a very strange deformation of the left elevator that I didn't notice until pre-flight the following day. Now Piper is working on an AD for all Pipers using 1025 carbon steel (31,000 aircraft) due to spontaneous deformation of the rudder in two aircraft...

We have two Pawnees, a C and a D model. One of them (I never remember WHICH one) has longer rudder horns, which require less rudder force when students are boxing the wake. They also fly a litle differently, but whenever I have a choice I always pick the one that's easiest to get in and out of...