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Let’s keep it in perspective. Those controllers are some of the best in the world and handle thousands of aircraft all converging on a single airport at the same time one week a year. Maybe they should have created better spacing with the jets and maybe a fly by was someones bad idea but if...

Damn. Maybe I should stop riding my motorcycle to the airport to fly the airplane I built in my garage. Some risks in life are still worth taking.

How many people are driving in any given 15 minute period vs how many are flying as PIC? How many of those car accidents were solely because the driver wasn’t skilled enough as a driver or because the weather turned too bad for the car to handle? Comparing car accidents to aircraft accidents...

I just found that boggle heads put one of their investing 101 conferences on YouTube and will start watching it tonight. Their forums look interesting but are a little too deep for someone just trying to figure out which brokerage account to go with and how to sort through all the index fund...

I have gone to Osh at least a dozen times but have only flown in once. I highly recommend driving there instead and camping if possible. You can pack up the car with all sorts of stuff to make your stay comfortable (chairs, coolers, fans, cots, etc). It's usually only hot during mid day. The...

I tried the search button but didn't find much other than someone asking to create an investing sub forum a ew years back. Do we have any good threads on here for investing, particularly for beginners? I just fired my financial investor as he was taking 1.5% a year, hasn't changed or reviewed...

My comments were specific to the aerocarb. A marvel Schebler carb has a float bowl that allows for any air bubbles to not interupt the engine. The aerocarb has no float bowl so any interruption in fuel flow, even a small vapor bubble interrupts the engine and makes it stumble. I don’t...

They are common on the sonex line of aircraft. A gascolator doesn’t work with the aerocarb because the aerocarb needs to be the lowest point in the fuel system with a straight downward sloping line from the tank or else vapor bubbles cause the engine to stumble. These in line filters are the...

Why not just reapply some spray on waterproofing?

Without naming the vendor Without naming the vendor, how are people supposed to be cautious? The only thing we got out of your story is that you tried to buy something from someone, they didn't answer your questions in a timely manner and they tried to charge you a legally mandated tax so you...

I'm not sure exactly what you were expecting to get out of this thread. If you had a bad interaction with the vendor and won't say who that vendor was or what the specific issues were then what are you expecting others on here to do? We can't avoid a company if we don't know who that company...

Membership hasn’t suffered because they tied directly to Oshkosh attendance. They make it so if you attend the show for more than a day or two that you need to become a member in order to not pay a higher enterance fee than what the membership costs. You also need to be a member in order to...

If they are actually interested in supporting home builders then why don’t they spin off experimental aircraft and GA into their own EAA groups like they do for the Aerobatics and Warbirds. They should rebrand themselves as something other than the “experimental” aircraft association and move...

Just because there aren’t many people who choose to build wooden or rag and tube airplanes doesn’t mean that people aren’t still interested enough to read articles about the process. Stop by the workshops during anirventure and you will find the wooden wing rib and fabric covering workshops...

I understand why some sites don’t want to deal with posts about inflammatory topics but it has gotten to the point where you are no longer allowed to even have a civil discussion about them anywhere. How do you understand different points of view if you aren’t allowed to talk to one another...

I also can’t follow your logic in the graphs but I do want to note that you are drawing conclusions off a single data set and may not be taking into account everything that went into the life limit of the spar. Inspections such as ECI only have a certain probability of detection. They do not...

Ignore the quoted post. It's bad advice. The same could be said about not getting your instrument rating and stopping at the ppl or not getting your commercial after finishing your instrument. There is always something new to learn but there is also absolutely nothing wrong with stopping at...

Interesting statistics and something to think about when building but statistics don't mean anything when you yourself are the outlier like the pilot in this accident was. Even something with a 99.9% success rate it still means that one in a thousand will still experience a failure.

Multiple eyes are always a good idea but even then they aren't foolproof. I had multiple other builders check my plane over as I was building and I had two other friends who had also completed building a sonex look things over right before I had the DAR out to do the certification inspection...

Stuff like this is what always worried me when building my sonex. The assembly process is not mistake proofed and you need to have a bit more knowledge than just what’s in the plans or builders manual at times. It’s not getting the big things wrong like spar pins or tight fit holes that scare...