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Those little experimental peashooters are still pretty affordable. I've been building tailwheel time in a Fisher Celebrity - my goal this summer has been to fly it 100 hours before the weather gets too cold and forces me back into a rental Skyhawk. The plane was built in 1995 and only had 103...

Paparazzi caught my Celebrity the other night. I tried to get some cool video footage of the Ercoupe, but the fisheye lens on the Insta360 made it look like we were a mile apart:

Like this guy and his amphib weight shift gyro? :oops:

Why stop there? Put the whole shebang on floats and build that rare AMES time.

You'll see that on certain fixed-roof cars with frameless windows in the doors, too.

Kyle Franklin after practicing his 'drunken pilot' routine Friday night, where he harvested some soybeans in the fields surrounding our runway. We hosted a free air show at KPEX on Saturday; I camped out there and worked dawn to dusk for three days with a bunch of other volunteers to make it...

That's a feature, not a bug. Look at the crazy labyrinth door seals - every time I watch a Freightliner driver try to close a Kenworth door without 'following through,' I smile knowing the cab is such a vault.

That was kind of what I did, too. My part 61 flight school has a retractable 182 that nobody ever rents because it's $50/hr more than the 172. I did some quick math and discovered there's a break-even point where the additional speed makes the R182 a better deal for travel (lower cost per...

He was saying that the other endorsements suggested in lieu of IR training (high performance and complex) were only going to require a small amount of training.

What I did was fly to airports 50+ nm away on flight following. It made comms a non-issue during IR, and allowed me to fly back to back approaches instead of churning away straight and level to build all the required XC PIC time under the hood. Tailwheel, HP, and complex training was fun, too.

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/411344

Waseca is a layup. Looks like the Iowans are selling merch.

I think my first call was "mach-whoa-kay-tuh," and then I switched to "mah-cuh-keh-tuh." I asked the guy working in their shop and I still have no idea after hearing him pronounce it. No problem with Edina, Wayzata, Mankato, Isanti, Edina, Bde Maka Ska, Mahtomedi, or Ely. :rofl:

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I was furiously googling the pronunciation so I wouldn't make an ass of myself on CTAF. Home safe with another 12.6 hours in the logbook and 15 new stamps in the FlyMN passport book, but who's counting? :biggrin:

Working on two things today: collecting FlyMN passport stamps and knocking out my long solo commercial cross country... at 70 knots. :biggrin: I was going to pitch my tent at some grass strip in Iowa and fly home tomorrow, but a super rough mag check revealed two badly fouled plugs when I...

Forgot to add: oddly enough, the AGI test got into some of the specifics of commercial maneuvers, whereas the CAX written did not touch on them at all. "At the 90° point in a lazy eight, your bank angle should be:" I was expecting some questions on the differences between parts 91/135/121...

The written barely touched on any commercial-specific topics. It was almost entirely private knowledge at a deeper level: aerodynamics, hazardous attitudes, ADM, sectional chart symbolism, airport surface markings, performance and W&B calculations, and some IFR basics. When I use Sheppard, I...

Needed to impose another 24-month deadline on myself, so I just completed the Commercial/CAX written exam. The test had considerable overlap with AGI and IGI/IRA, so I only spent a few days with Sheppard Air and passed with a 99% - curse those postage stamp sized performance flow charts on...