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All this debate between "experts" is ridiculous. Read the article! This guy is flying back and forth without any regard to the food he is bringing his friend and neighbors on the island. If the FAA wants to pursue this, they will. If I were him, I'd continue doing this just as he is and...

Try a Hoody. It slides on to a regular baseball cap. I use it and it works the best of anything I've tried. You just adjust the cap to get your view restricted to wherever you need. It is the least intrusive of any view limiting device that I tried and slide on and off of the brim of a cap...

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With a little twist on the popular saying, "It is better to be on the ground asking if I'm too careful, than in the air asking why did I decide to go."

Isn't "polished" frost just another term for a thin layer of ice?

Our group uses a 100,000 BTU kerosene powered torpedo heater hooked up to a large tube and duct that blows air up through both cowl flap openings. In colder weather we run it for about 10 minutes or so and the engine heats up nicely. From the looks of the age of the heater and duct work I would...

I always had fun in my initial training. Every lesson was something new and fun to me. IR has been a different story.

This is great advice. You can easily build your confidence by flying IFR when you have a VFR backup plan available at any point in time. File and fly as if you are in the thick soup, but knowing that you can look up at any time and switch back to VFR should give you all of the confidence that...

From what I saw, it seems to oscilate like you're in a rocking chair.

Out of curiosity, how much do you have invested in the plane as it sits right now? I love the RV build idea and knowing the amount invested would help to make the decision in this area.

I've only watched a few of the flight videos and it appears there are some awful oscilations or lack of stability issues with this airplane. Watching the last video, I felt like I was in a rocking chair as the plane seemed to pitch up and down in a rhythmic way. Is it just me or do others see...

Here in Wisconsin, as long as you stay away from the big cities, you would hardly notice anything out of the ordinary. I've flown for lunch to several spots both on and off of the airports in the past few months. KSBM has a nice restaurant with dining inside right on the airport grounds, KEZS...

Definitely, do this despite anyone else's advice or personal experience. I did this and found that I prefer the H10 passive set the best. Your experience may be much different than mine and you find the ANR sets to be much better. No matter what anyone tries to tell you, there is no way to...

I've been flying for almost 20 years and I still prefer my David Clark H10s to any of the ANR headsets that I've tried. To me there isn't a big difference in background noise level and I seemed to get a headache whenever I would wear an ANR set for more than a short flight. There is something...

Do you have any other hobbies or interests that take up time now? If so, an easy trade would be to put the golf, fishing, etc. on the side and use the same time as you would for that and put it into your PPL training. Luckily, I got my license long before I was married, but I am now doing my...

Not really. There are definitely scenerios where the sun could line up just right that it would make seeing the runway or landing zone nearly impossible. This would be the perfect time for a go around. If there was enough glare that you weren't able to see what lane you were in while driving...

B-36 Peacemaker... Love it! Piston Engines and Turbines all on one airframe.

There's a big difference between being scared to touch a switch and leaving something alone if it is still running well enough to maintain altitude. I had a scenario similar to this actually happen while in instrument training with an instructor. We were experiencing reduced power, but enough...

The big problem here is that the only Dakota you are going to find for $50K or under is likely going to need another $50K just to get it back to airworthy status.

The OP should definitely be looking into fractional ownership/partnership to accomplish what he's looking for. There was or is a 1/5 ownership in a decent looking 210 on ASO for $35K somewhere in Michigan. I'm sure there are other opportunities in other areas of the country too. If something...