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Have you read Alternative Engines by Mick Myal? They are still around for about $5, Your inquiry is complex and the best answer to your question is Yes AND No. If you are owning an airplane, would you prefer to spend your time flying it or working on it? If your engine breaks, would you...

I am a fan of 7-day VFR weather planning and have been doing so for years. I like to know that if I fly away from home for several days a good weather window will open up for my return trip. Believe it or not, good VFR days are relatively easy to predict, but they may be off by a day or two...

I bought an Electric Unicycle and taught myself how to ride it. The Kingsong 14D EUC weighs 30 pounds and is about the size of a laptop case. It has a 15 mile range at 15 MPH. I bought it in November 2022 and have put about 330 miles on it. My dog loves it! We run together a few times a...

This is a good thread! I have used the acronym IPAIDSAM as suggested by the book Say Again Please. But I am sure my radio work can use some improvement. I usually request FF during the climb after passing 4000 for 10,500. Is there a preferred way to ask on the next call? I would normally say...

I would buy the Lance and pay the insurance. Get extra training and fly enough the first year to get your rate dropped for next year.

This is a little off topic but it relates to your question about rings. In 1980 I was sent to perform an in-frame overhaul of a CAT G342 naturally aspirated natural gas engine at the Richmond Colesium. It was an old engine at the time and had 27,000 hours on it. The cylinder head had been...

I know your decision is based on more than flying, but if you are considering a career in aviation I think you should stay. I base that suggestion on an article about the Air France disaster written by William Langewiesch called "The Human Factor". He describes the differences in attitudes and...

Yes they missed the go around, but their real problem was they missed the approach!! The go around should have started just past the numbers, at about 25% of runway length, when they realized they were way too high and fast, not 3/4 down the runway that was all too short at that point. They...

Maybe some of you don't think about this the way I do. If you are going to use more than 1/2 of the runway to roll to a stop, then it becomes imperative to be on you game and put the wheels down on the first 25% of available runway space. That Baron fully loaded needed 1600 feet or more to...

The wizz wheel also calculates density altitude. They were high and fast because they didn't realize they needed 1600 feet to roll to a stop, and didn't put the wheels on the ground until after they had used up 2000 feet of a 2900 ft runway. If it was 60F instead of 95F they might still be...

When I was undergoing my final phase of flight training, my instructor, Lee Ragsdale, had me plan a flight in my Cherokee 140 from Fredericksburg VA to Knoxvilke TN. The object was to plan a flight that used all but 1/2 hour of available fuel and to land the airplane with 30 minutes of fuel...

I owned a 68 Cherokee 140 with 160HP for 14 years. Everything they say above is spot on. We flew with 2 people and bags and a 30 lb dog and would take it for a week to visit family. We had the cavernous back shelf option and filled it up. A good plane up to 7500 feet. We went as high as...

I went to a truck parts place and bought a tire adapter, some pipe fittings and an 8" piece of brake line. I added a pressure gauge and air trigger and pieced them together and bent the line as needed to check my air pressure and refill my tires without pulling the wheel pants. It worked like...

May I suggest a different way of looking at this? Try looking at payload and how it varies with fuel load based on the different lengths of the flight you intend to complete. Are you really going to cram your airplane full of people and bags and full fuel and fly a 4 hour leg? My guess is...

I know that power available affects performance, especially where acceleration, takeoff, and climb is concerned. Since the added HP does not add any weight, then the airframe would exceed their engineer's minimum acceptable takeoff performace standards. Adding some weight brings the airframe...

Yes and no. I used my electronic E6B to create a True Airspeed table at 10°C intervals. I trim for desired TAS based on altitude and air temp. I know that 140 kts TAS is about 60% power at 5500 feet, and I run LOP at that power level. I use that table on every XC that I fly. 140 kts TAS, 8...

Here is a novel idea: why not use the electronic E6B to learn how to better use the Analog E6B? Then you will have mastered both and will be a better pilot because of it. Having said that, I do find it easier to be more precise with the electronic E6B.

Before they passed, my wife's parents had a winter home in Port Royal near the airport. We flew there in a Cherokee about 12 times over a 10 year period. They were very nice. They are a little expensive but after I complained once on AirNav, the manager called me and gave me a decent discount...

It looks like a really nice job.

I had a GPS100 in my old Cherokee when it was purchased. It was a nav only, not a nav/com. Garmin told me it was obsolete and could not be updated with a new database, so it can't be used for IFR, but it would be ok VFR as long as the items in its obsolete data based were still valid. I...