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Since the article says unsecured creditors look to be getting less than a penny on the dollar of what they're owed...I'd say, "No."

I dunno. But $16M isn't very much in today's world. I don't know what sort of machinery or tooling was involved in the manufacture of those planes, but perhaps just the real estate and equipment is worth that much.

Technically I guess the deal has yet to officially close, but according to this story, Icon has been purchased for just under $16M by "SG Investment America, owned by a 160-year-old German manufacturer of sewing machines, Dürkopp Adler GmbH, which is, in turn, owned by ShangGong Group of...

Doesn't the Stratus 3 cause some complication if you want to use it with anything other than Foreflight? Something about you need to set it to "open protocol mode" or something like that, and you need to use an iOS device to do it? (I know 98.6% of pilots use Foreflight which uses the Stratus...

Does it have anything to do with the IF being 12+ miles from the runway threshold and 6 miles from the FAF? Seems like that offers a lot of room to make some sort of buttonhook turn to get established, but then I also fly a slow-as-molasses bugsmasher, not a bizjet.

I've been using a home-built Stratux in my plane for 7+ years (built Oct 2016) and I've been very happy with it. It sits on the hat shelf in the back of my Cherokee, with antennas mounted to the box and the GPS antenna wire tucked under the plastic trim around the rear window so the antenna is...

Yes, I do happen to still have the old prop, but had not made it out to the hangar since this question arose. Yesterday I confirmed the model # on the prop was correct, so apparently someone wrote the one in the log incorrectly. There are (tens of?) thousands of parts on an aircraft. Which...

I have had an Oregon Aero mic muff on my QT Halo headset for years. The faux leather just recently started flaking, so I replaced it a few weeks ago with this one that appears to be identical, but a little cheaper than OA's price: https://www.mypilotstore.com/mypilotstore/sep/10492 Note that...

"If a plane rusts away in a hangar and no one is there to see it, is it really broken?"

I paid $25k for a sporty car in 1996 as my daily driver. 28 years later, it's still my daily driver. I've rebuilt the engine twice for ~$10k+ each, and have spent many tens of thousands of dollars in other maintenance along the way. I could easily have purchased multiple new cars for the...

I did go digging through the logs, and my first pass through I missed where my previous s/n prop was first installed. Took me some hunting to find it buried in a longer entry. There's an entry for when the prop before *it* was removed for overhaul. The reinstall initially says the same prop...

Hah! Maybe so. I did pop in to the shop today. I didn't get to see what it looked like before they started working on it, but they told me the connection broke at the ball joint where it connects at the carb, and that the cable itself was okay. I'm not familiar enough with that connection to...

I haven't heard back from the shop yet. I showed up unannounced, so I expect they've got work in front of me....

That makes sense, of course, but that's not really what I meant. What I meant was, if someone pulls the prop off their plane and sends it to a reputable/certified/whatever the right word is for "does the right thing" prop shop, wouldn't such a prop shop be reasonably expected to take pains to...

A) Does such field work change the model number? B) Is that routinely done by a reputable prop shop if it violates the TCDS for the application plane? (Per my TCDS, the "allowable limits" for reducing the diameter are zero.)

If you want to double-check my math, my work is shown below. Plane is a PA-28-180. Engine is an O-360-A4A. It's a ~50 year-old plane, so depending on your definition of "alterations", just about everything on the plane has been touched/repaired/replaced over its lifetime. But in terms of...

To be clear, you meant to say that a 76xxxxx-2-xx and a 74xxxxx-0-xx are the same diameter? (I.e., they're both 74"?) I *should* have noticed an RPM drop like that with the new prop. I didn't, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen--might just mean I was oblivious, though a change that big...

I replaced my prop a few years ago because the one that was on the plane was deemed unserviceable. I don't remember exactly why, but I think the gist was that umpteen years of having nicks filed out at annual eventually caught up to it, or something along those lines. The old prop model # was...

I did briefly consider it, but not seriously. I have an engine monitor and routinely fly lean of peak, so I know how my engine performs (or doesn't) when lean. My home is at sea level and as a rule I don't lean at low altitudes, especially at high power settings, for engine longevity. Thus, I...

I suppose that's a good question. Certainly in the moment, that was my assumption. In my head I envisioned the throttle lever at the carb and how the cable pushes it to open and pulls it to close. Since pulling back on the throttle handle had no effect, my expectation was that there was...