Dan Thomas

Even the Part 43 Appx D regulatory reference does not require a brush inspection. So what’s your point again? However, any experienced...

Once again: What are your credentials and experience? I don' t believe you have either of them.

Well, not 2000 years ago, but 50. The change in variation there is about 10 minutes per year. In 50 years that's 500 minutes, or a bit...

Replying to my earlier post; I was going through boxes of my books and came across the same manual, but from 1973. It has the same...

Because if the appliance was shorted to ground before the switch, there would be no way no way to turn it off.

Yup. Way back in post #13 I said all this:

I don’t think ATC really believes it when you tell them where you are. That’s why you get a code and are asked to IDENT.

And by the time he's finished that radio call he's 3.8 miles out.

Yes to all of that. The rod end should also not rub on the throttle arm, Sometimes one needs a thin washer between the rod end and...

The washer IS tight on the wire at the washer's hole. The whole thing is a bit too tight, as the wire is bent up enough to be scraping...

The nut and cotter pin are a lot easier to inspect when they're outboard of the lever than when they're inboard.

Give them your magnetic heading or location in flight. The runway and ground winds are reported in magnetic. Winds aloft are reported...

Cars might be doing it differently, but they have a lot of plastic body panels now. Those don't work too well for ground paths. The...

That percentage is getting bigger all the time, and the pain that comes with it is getting worse, too. Arthritis. I don't think I could...

Lots of good advice in this thread, but this comment (and those like it) is probably the most important. The purchase price of an...