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Unless it's cheaper and airports are willing to carry both.

Requiring fuel to meet an ASTM (or other) spec makes sense when there are multiple suppliers and you need to guarantee consistency, i.e. they all have to meet the same spec. In the case of G100UL (or 94UL) there's only one supplier and they're making it to their own spec. Though my...

And 195 for a round engine, er, person? :D

And how not to turn your plane (prop blast) when near other aircraft or an open hangar. Don't they teach fueling and tying down any more? They did in the mid 1970s, and that was a 141 school. But then I was lucky and got the old guy instructor, instead of the puppy mill CFIs that made up most...

Glueing an almond to the trigger of a snap trap works well. Not only do you not have to rebait after a dud, they can't lick it off without triggering the trap.

Stits is certainly easier than Ceconite and dope, but something about the smell of the Stits chemicals just makes my brain scream, "TOXIC!" Butyrate dope is probably just as bad for you but it doesn't smell as bad. Or maybe I just like the smell because it reminds me of all the model airplanes...

Deliberately setting up a student to fail can drive a lesson home. When I was a cocky kid learning to fly, I had to do a "phase check" with a different CFI. He had me plan a XC flight to some airport I'd never been to maybe 50 miles away, I don't recall exactly. Then he kept procrastinating...

That's what led to the demise of Johnnycake Airport in Connecticut. One owner wanted to sell, the other did not.

An airport I was once based at would padlock a chain around your prop if the tiedown was unpaid. Didn't happen to me, but a girl I knew found a chain on her T-Craft while she was out of town for a couple of months. Needless to say, she was p***ed about the scratched paint.

Fortunately the local FBO has a J-3 I can use for mine. It depends on the plane. For most of the planes I've owned it really is true. But I agree that knowing how to do a W&B is something any pilot (or A&P!) absolutely has to know. And sadly, some don't.

Isn't the period between 100-200 hours statistically the most dangerous? The checkride was awhile ago, and complacency sets in before real skills are acquired. I've been doing the ground part online... the CFI I use prefers it that way, I don't think he really likes doing orals. I've...

I've used a few of those. They work great... until they don't, when they break or the rubber seal fails... at which point they spill more gas than would every have been lost through a simple old style non "environment friendly" spout. "For water use only", of course. I've bought a few of...

Take a file and knock off the sharp edges.

We went tankless in the house in part because we liked the one in our cabin, and also because the space made available by getting rid of the tank gave us better options during the kitchen/laundry room remodel.

But they don't have to deal with torsional resonance from a large diameter undamped propeller or gyroscopic loads. I think a lot of the airboats using auto engines and redrives are using smaller diameter multi blade fans, compared to the larger diameter props on airplane engines used on...

Jamie, can't help with an LSA share, but are you the Jamie who was flying PPG at Silver Sands with Richie and that bunch?

But only those who can see it and know what it signifies.

But will either one be fungible with the FAA's Eagle gas (if it ever happens)???

I didn't think he was whining, I saw it as just wanting to know what happened to the thread.