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To your point about high tech, the old dinosaur mill can be managed with electronic process controls and button-pushing systems management by the pilot. Startup and run-up: system self checks. Taxi leaning. Take off. Climb cruise. Cruise. Descent. Maybe even landing or go-around. Manage...

The FSDO is already paid for. The lawyer might add wallet-insult to wallet-injury. Plus, if I get a lawyer, I’m the director. If I use the FSDO, I just hit the launch button and the missle does its thang.

They typically just pull off and push on.

Congrats! Lots of new plane threads; lovin it.

If you were going to have the pre buy done by the same guy and it was done 2 years ago, assuming you could get the “report”, I’d just send it. Buy without a pre-buy. Or anyone could do the pre-buy. Damage and ground running or sitting corrosion are the main factors that could have occurred...

Might as well:

35 kt direct tailwind 4:00 flight Cruised between 150-160 kts Cracked 200 mph :) 188 kts on descent Had to plan my descent WAY out (for me) due to ground speed Cheaper than typical due to speed Maybe the thrill will wear off and I’ll keep my trusty 182…instead of thinking Mooney, RV, or Bo…I...

From the new Bo thread, reminded me: the first upgrade I did was BAS retractable 4 point belts right after the prebuy and before I flew it home.

Where is a good resource someone can recommend to learn about SVFR? Yeah, regs are the final authority, I’m thinking a web link or instructional video. (If I learned it before I’ve since forgotten; I was a black & white go/no go VFR pilot until I got my IR, so never considered it as a tool in...

My use of pulse ox is just to get an idea of regulator flow rate after I’ve checked to see if I need O2. I generally know when I need it based on my own experiences and gotten a feel for what setting I’ll need at what altitude. It’s more of a check/confirmation now.

I get absorbed in stuff like this, enough to regret some of it in hindsight. Mine are grown. Don’t be me.

Don’t forget to do stuff with those kiddos, between engine and POA time suckers. They grow up way too dang fast.

Indeed!!

Find a few mechanics and CFIs. Fly with the CFIs, work with the mechanics and learn your way around the plane. As you fly more and more, don’t question “did I hear that” or “did that change”? Yes you did and yes it did. No one will know her better than you. Figure out your “kit”. All the...

Find a friend. Fly and follow one another. Buy lunch. Fly back together in one plane. May not even need a car.

Squirrel?

Also, the carbon you can typically crush with a fingernail.

High wing :p If you’re a lesser pilot like me. Sorry, couldn’t resist

I spent a total of 8 hours on calls, a visit to Verizon, and 3 visits to AT&T store before I was able to transfer my number. In this day and age, not sure why that’s so hard. Maybe security reasons, I dunno.

I remember some people who looked like they were of Asian descent wearing masks 10-15 years before COVID-19. I just see it as a conservatively protective informed behavior now, nothing more or less. I did on a few of the commercial flights I took this year, but not all.