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Wow, big move!

Hurricane Milton may resolve this issue. Right now we are in the crosshairs.

Dotted line is current track. Blue dot is my house. I've seen a lot of hurricanes in 21 years, and the track ALWAYS changes, so we're probably safe! But IF that exact track happens at high tide, you will see Godzilla-level destruction. Storm winds blow CCW, so there would be a 120mph wind...

Bolts are hardened solid steel. The aircraft frame and engine mount are hollow thin-walled tube. The bolt is by far the strongest component of that structure. It is not going to fail.

Older pilot - 80+. At some point he just quit caring about legality because the consequences were no longer a deterrent. Stopped getting annuals and just fixed it himself. Finally decided to sell and realized backyard repairs were going to cost him money that he needed. He was 100% hoping...

Your engine mount bolts are probably AN7 or AN8, so each bolt has a working load of at least 18,000 pounds. Four bolts is pretty strong.

Another one inbound, with Tampa Bay square in the crosshairs. A direct hit would do massive damage. A lot of people on the barrier islands are still recovering from Helene. I knew several people who lost their homes. Expect plenty of coverage on the worst case scenario, which is landfall just...

Dunno. He just said it was bogus. He had a lot of experience with D's, used to maintain Greg Koontz's airshow plane, so I didn't argue. Decathlons have been doing acro for 50+ years, with 6000 aircraft produced and zero recorded instances of engine departure, so it doesn't seem like a pressing...

My Decathlon did when I got it. My A&P removed on the first annual.

Intentional?

Are we going to mandate ADS-B IN? Otherwise, what is the point? This was not caused by lack of tech. It was caused by poor airmanship. The Swift pilot flew an improper pattern entry. Rather than entering downwind at midfield, he entered at the worst possible point: where aircraft on crosswind...

For bonus points, check out this safety wiring.

7 years. None. Pretty sure he's trying to sell it. That ought to get you thinking about those bargains.

This Arrow came into my buddy's shop for annual. Once he washed 7 years of grunge off the engine, he found this repair. A 9 inch section of a diagonal tube on the engine mount had been cut out. Another section of tube was split in half lengthwise and bolted to the stubs to replace the gap.

Soul crushing

Fassnacht was a wealth manager in Atlanta. Campbell was an Army officer in NC. Neely was his wife. They flew together a month ago. Most likely just friends, or perhaps investment clients. Brutally sad to look at people's online profiles and think of the radiating circles of devastation these...

Ran across a news article stating the wreckage was near the departure end of 21, close to the pilot lounge. Witness says aircraft impacted a tree. Looks indeed like botched go-around.

I have limited confidence in ADS-B data for micro flight path, especially near the ground. But I agree, if the wreckage was located in the area you indicate with the orange circle, then it was not a base-to-final stall. Whatever the case, I think "poor stick and rudder skills" are probably...

And also to the usual silliness of bureaucratic decision making, given that a search for "nuclear power plant" on Google Maps yields unlimited info.

Cirrus is highly spin resistant by design, correct? So perhaps result of accelerated stall on final turn would be continued straight ahead stall. IOW maybe pilot rode the stall all the way to the ground pulling back on the stick. Hopefully initial report will fill in blanks on wreckage...