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The trick is to own your own cascade cylinders and don't exchange them for fills. I recommend 4500 psi service 504cuft steel. You can drop them for refills at the gas supplier (at least we can here in Billings) and pick your own cylinder back up a few days later. That way you know nothing else...

One day after a couple times around the patch, my instructor told me to taxi in the leave the engine running. Just before hopping out he said, "it's all yours kid.. stay in the pattern" I was 16 with 10 hours dual under my belt. I think it being pretty much a surprise helped me by not having...

Lonely? Hardly. I didn't say no women... girlfriends are easy to find especially when your gainfully employed and have no kids. (Having a plane doesn't hurt either) As you can imagine they are are way less expensive then wives and don't have veto power on what I choose to spend my time and money...

In my 20's I had a decision.. either wife and kids or flying. I'm VERY happy with my plane and the hours in the logbook!

We get diamond backs coming up around the buildings all the time. Used to give me the willies but the longer your around them the less scary they are. I fashioned a snake grabber out of a 6' long aluminum tube with a loop of cotton rope down the center and out the end. You just carefully slip...

As another riddle grad.. I second the assertion that it's about the biggest waste of money in aviation.

You don't need a twin to fly in Montana you just need a turbo or something with more power then the typical flat landers aircraft. It's not contiguous mountains out here but you will cross a few high spots and go over some roadless areas. Used to make me nervous when I first came out here. If...

Have done this several times back in the 90's when I lived in SE Wisconsin area. Used to take a load of 5 up and had many shows to choose from. Nice part is they all don't start at the same time so you just head to the bigger looking shows and orbit until you see something better. The look...

In my opinion, and experience it's much more difficult to make a big wing, low power aircraft such as a Cessna hit the spot in the sky or the ground that you intend then when driving something with more power and performance. I kind of dread BFR time when I have to use a big wallowing wounded...

That figure is LOP at altitude but then that's where I spend my time. The engine is a Barrett mod IO540k1a5 with 10-1, electric ign and gami's. The plane was no slouch even before the engine upgrades. Most Glasair 3's are quite capable of amazing performance.

Maybe not so ideal for business since it's not well suited to hard IFR nor icing as you point out. If you don't mind waiting a bit for weather or going around, you got the speed to make up some of that lost time. It's a moderately high work load flying machine and so keeps your piloting skills...

I also lusted after the look and speed of Aerostars for many years but just couldn't justify the operating expense. Bought a Glasair 3 in 2006 instead and haven't looked back. It's hard to not have permagrin of pure satisfaction clipping along at 225 kts burning about 12 gph.

Another vote for Goodyear.

Another vote for Aussies. Smart as a BC but less manic. An important factor for me is having a long lived dog. If your going to make a best friend you want him to stay with you just as long as possible. I miss my buddy a lot but he gave me 21 happy years. Granted that was a couple more then the...

Pressure washing out the backs of garbage trucks when I was a teen. At least they gave me a pair of goggles to keep blowback chucks out of my eyes. I may even have decided at that time to be a pilot when I got older so I didn't have to do such lousy jobs.

Started at 15 and had solo'd before i got my drivers license. It was interesting that I had to be driven to the airport where I then could fly myself.

I thought this thread was about Aztecs. I like D's.

Impromptu aerobatics always works well for me. You never see people pull their belts down hard and shut their mouths quicker.

Dating site for pilots? Why would any woman sign up to date men she knew already had a mistress? And that these guys would always pay more attention to, and spend more money on that love then her?

I was told that accurate advance timing wasn't possible in a 6 cylinder pmag because of slop in the accessory gears driving the mags. Thus my decision, long ago, to not wait for the 6cyl version and go with the electroair.