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This is good advice, and as someone who has always done my own (car) oil changes until my wife's newest car, I think that is among the easiest tasks to undertake, but people usually pay for the convenience. My question was more to the point of: if you aren't mechanically inclined and you...

Well, remember, he takes his DPE fee in the "document checking" stage of the checkride, so this is above and beyond that. Safe to say that the DPE is making an easy grand today...

This is a fair point and one of which I (as the PIC mentioned above) am definitely guilty. But I would ask the other side of the same question. I noticed an issue, and since I am not an airplane mechanic, I took it to someone who was. He identified the issue but said it was not necessary to deal...

Well, let’s see now… jk Obviously, the historical risk factor is low, but with our world seemingly on the constant brink of falling apart, the future risk seems to be higher than the historical risk. How many engine failures have I experienced? None, but the longer I fly, the future risk is...

Currently, an EMP would only disable the aircraft's electrical systems, since the spark generated for the engine is produced by magnetos. If we move to the entirety of the propulsion system generated electrically, an EMP would cause the engine to stop functioning. Now, airplanes wouldn't just...

I guess that’s one way to get your 3 takeoffs and landings…

Ok, so now I officially feel stupid. I clicked on the thread and promptly ignored the title for the body of the thread… the forest for the trees or something like that…

I love this group, and I would LOVE to attend a fly in. One big factor that is a detractor (although time/availability/other things may contribute) is the lack of specifics on the fly-in thread. I looked at the RR24 thread and had no idea what airport it was at. I was able to find it by going...

Ask and ye shall receive.

I was at work (law enforcement) talking to my partner. I was mid-sentence, and just stopped and said, “Dude, did you feel that?” He was like, “Nooooo?” I told him, “That was an earthquake. I’m dead serious.” It lasted all of 3, MAYBE 4 seconds here in central PA. I pulled up the seismic...

To echo @MountainDude radius and filter searches. Let’s say I want to take my wife to lunch. We know that there’s one restaurant that we love, but we want to try some other things. Draw a radius map (say 100 miles) then filter by airports with restaurants (they either get highlighted or the...

As inclined as I generally am to give someone the benefit of the doubt or a second chance, there are things here that cause me to be disinclined to do so in this case: 1. He has knowingly committed this violation more than once. (Caveat: As a non-instrument rated pilot, he CAN file and fly...

Fortunately, I haven’t taken off without a cap yet, but when pulling my plane out of the hangar recently after a full-serve full up, I noticed a strong smell of fuel and sure enough, the fuel cap hadn’t been replaced. It was streaming back along the wing the whole time I pulled it down our...

Ok, I'll play devil's advocate here. On my Bahamas trip last month, I filed my EAPIS to come back on Friday. Weather wasn't great, so we pushed to Sunday. (Weather still wasn't great, but that's beside the point). There is no way to amend/cancel the EAPIS filing, so if this was one of those AOEs...

Commercial and Bahamas are already done. Plane is in for annual now, so when it comes out, then we start on instructor certs. Adding become a Mission Pilot for CAP.

Was that at KCEF? I departed out of there one night (long night XC during [simulated] instrument training). Controller asked if I wanted to take an intersection departure for 23 at N with something like 3800' available. With my 172, I was all too glad to not have to taxi from the FBO the whole 2...

Definitely a different world today with international roaming on our cell phones, but I have traveled to Canada several times and just got back from the Bahamas yesterday. I have not had a horrible experience yet. Night before last, I called customs and told them that I planned to arrive at...

I’ll tell you what I did. Step 1. Take all written tests as early as you can in the process. The more of the theory you know, the less you have to be taught in the airplane (in turn decreasing your costs and time) Step 2. Know all of your requirements going in. Don’t “waste” hours. Always be...

The Bahamas trip is AMAZING!