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Some years ago, I had the control arm bushings replaced on the car. I use an independent mechanic that specializes on that particular brand, while charging a reasonable amount for parts and labor. About a year and a half later, the replacement bushings failed. Mileage on them was low (well...

Joke's on us, I think we've all done it.

Overflying EWR is a sure way of not getting in the way of any arriving/departing traffic. Same with JFK if you're heading up the coast.

Batteries not included.

It took them a while to figure out you're not really staring at the panel during VFR maneuvers. Yes, you can get a horn in parallel with the light. You can buy the expensive one "approved" for aviation use, or you can work with a good A&P that understands a minor alteration and is willing to...

Surprised to hear this - everyone I talked to said they did great on their plane. Anyway, the most important question: did you install an inverted fuel and oil system? You know you'll have to fly upside-down to get there.

So if you have a charging system fault your stall horn quits by design? I wonder what DER would put a -9 on such a design.

You need a minimum number of pulses and replies to ensure the DME is replying to you and not someone else. During the initial search phase, the interrogator sends 150 pulse pairs per second, dropping to 30 PPS for the tracking phase. A DME usually transmits 2700 PPS, regardless of the number of...

This is their track - they were coming in from the NE, but the track stops a couple miles short of the accident site. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a20885&lat=38.569&lon=-84.779&zoom=12.2&showTrace=2024-10-07&leg=5&trackLabels This is the tower location, with the guy wire anchor points...

WOW indeed. Quite the articulate response, and it answers some of my earlier questions as to what kind of a fatigue life we're looking at. Great find!

A young guy from North Dakota moves to Louisiana and goes to a big "everything under one roof" department store looking for a job. The Manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says "Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Dakota." Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the...

HTAWS databases are usually set-up in a grid, with a typical tower occupying at a minimum an area of .3×.3 nm. You'll get an OBSTACLE warning before you reach that set of grid squares. For a tower 1000' tall with 45° guy wires, they should at most extend 1000' laterally from the tower, well...

If you look where the ADS-B track ends, there is a 1000ft radio tower right in front of them. The absolute sad part is that most EFBs have an obstacle database that would've warned them about it. I guess nobody brought an ipad with them.

Last time I bothered looking at the sensors page in the FMS, it was tracking DMEs 50-100nm away. Use an average of 75nm and that's 18 thousand square nautical miles that could be covered by one DME. That would be a plane for 180 square nm, or a square 13nm on each side. I could see some busy...

There are multiple levels of speculation. There's the DG level of insulting the dead speculation, and there's the "maybe it was a botched go-around, hmmm, when was the last time I practiced one, maybe I should do a few next time I'm flying" speculation. The second kind should be accepted and (in...

That means something completely different in Aussie slang.

While not a family-friendly movie, some of the people's reactions in that newspaper article were definitely exaggerated.

I keep some emergency cash in my headset bag. Even if it's after hours at a self-serve pump, I can call the airport manager and arrange a way to pump fuel, while leaving some cash in the after hours drop box.