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I know you had one "own-goal" type incident, but was the choice to go as part of a group a stress reducer or a stress adder? I've always assumed it would add stress...

Glad you made it. Was wondering about you earlier today.

Thing is, unless you want to recertify every airplane in the fleet, you can't do any of that.

All I have to do between now and then is recover from whatever TF illness I have and do a condition inspection on the -10. Its in the bag.

MP? MIP? Mission Pilot? Mission Instructor Pilot?

I was really hoping Tikki was a typo or autocorrect.

Flew in on Friday. Setup camp with my son and my friend Steve. As of late Sunday any amount of talking would trigger a chronic cough. By Monday morning I had a bad cough and felt rotten. Sometime during the week I started alternating fevers and chills. Pretty much self-isolated from Monday...

One of the things you have to watch on the 180 degree turn approaches at Oshkosh is how close you are to the runway when you begin your turn. There IS a minimum. It is very important to be farther out than whatever your minimum is for the existing conditions (wind, aircraft type, weight...

Your whole path home looks like a nightmare. Be careful.

Did anyone see the accident? I’m curious about what caused him(?) to thump it in so hard.

Exactly. You need a “local” low point to capture the bad stuff. But you need a systemic low spot so gravity allows you to drain it. Put that gascolator up high and it’ll still catch the stuff. But it ain’t gonna drain very well.

My 13 year old son loves the night airshow. He even made me watch the ISS pass that happened after the show!

An rv-10 will do it unless you have large family members. My typical Oshkosh trip has the airplane loaded with 4 people who average 180 lbs, nearly 100 pounds of stuff and 50 gallons/500 miles of fuel with reserves.

The reason “low point in the system” matters is because it gives you head pressure when you sump the gascolator. No head pressure = no flow. The important things about a gascolator are the screen and the fact that the bowl acts as a small reservoir and allows water to precipitate out to the...

Fuuudge.

Being that (I think) I have Covid, just leave an open space with a 6’ radius to represent me.

Exactly. Handle your business. Everything else is secondary.

In the rv’s, you’re gonna find any water in the fuel when you sump the tanks. Beyond that, gascolators are a really good way to add heat to your fuel and cause hard hot start and other warm fuel problems. I have a gascolator on my carb’d RV-6 but have an inline filter on the RV-10, which is...

We have a tower AT pattern altitude on a hill directly on the 45 for 01 at VPC. Hasn’t collected anyone yet…

My 13 year old son is here. Friends always bring their (estimated)10 YO daughter. Several other kids out and about in HBC.