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I believe there are STCs to change it to a six seater if the TCDS lists it as 7 seats only. In the models that are 6 OR 7 in the TCDS you can put a logbook entry that you have removed the seventh seat kit if I am remembering correctly.

I fly my PA32-300 LOP for about 12.1-12.4 gph (130-135 knots) for what it's worth. I used to fly my Challenger (Archer) about 8-9 gph slightly LOP at 8500-9500 for around 110-115 knots. It's somewhere in the range of 1-2 nm/gal less efficient if I am calculating it right... here's my panel...

I'm a big fan of making the plane how you want it. I purposefully set out to find either a plane that already was loaded up with most of what I wanted, or had absolutely none of what I wanted and needed major updating. I went with the latter after considering many planes that sort of fit the...

We saw only paragliders. I'll have to ask Rob and get back to you. Thank you for the positive feedback. I really appreciate it.

I usually check in as Cherokee. Sometimes they change it to Saratoga. Usually when I file.

My youngest really wants to travel the world with a paraglider. Very cool!

Having a pilot license and an airplane has opened up a world of aviation adventures for our family. We recently flew our own airplane to Santa Barbara to try Paragliding. Had an interesting experience in IMC when my wife started to panic, and then a super fun weekend in Santa Barbara. I continue...

I usually call my PA32-300 a Cherokee but sometimes ATC will refer to it as Saratoga. If you use Saratoga they KNOW it is a PA32 and not a PA28, it you say Cherokee it could be either. So they know you will be 15-25 knots faster I guess...??? I dunno.

Sometimes I disconnect the autopilot just to hear that sound and re-engage it. Hahah. And yeah PS Engineering is a top notch company for both quality of products and customer support.

I fly a Cherokee 6 with my family of 4 on board. I think it's great to recognize the additional pressures that flying with family can place on you as the pilot and how it may complicate certain scenarios. The family dynamic can inform the PIC/Passenger relationship and must sometimes be...

My family loves flying to new places for a day trip and we figured out a fun solution to get around once we are there. We tried out this e-scooter on a recent trip up to beautiful Big Bear Lake is Southern California. Hope you find this video useful (and entertaining).

What a terrible aviator. I have flown into the Vegas area, both IFR and VFR, landed at McCarran at least a half dozen times even in my lowly Cherokee....the controllers for that area are incredible and have treated me equally to the Southwest jets going in and out of there, even during a VPOTUS...

My rule is to use max gross for all performance calculations even when I am way under, apply rules of thumb for tailwind, surface, gradient, and round up on all winds and calculations...and then add 30%. I did that in this case and was right about at the length of the runway with that...

I read through all the comments and always try to respond to all of them. Learned a lot and there were things I didn't consider. I know it looks super close on video. The plane was off the ground by 70% of the available runway and crossed the runway end 20 knots above stall speed. Still...

Thanks for the comments. I consider myself a pretty conservative aviator and do not like to take risks. This is about as far as I have pushed my personal comfort level on almost anything in flying and I was feeling pretty good about the decision in the moment but all the great comments here and...

LOL - thats a good one!!!

Good to know thanks for the tip! It seems like a good tool for general planning at an airport like this.

I recently had a challenging short(ish) field situation when we went down to Agua Caliente Hot Springs for a fun day, documented in this video along with some family fun.

Fill tips first then use mains. There was a guy on one of these forums that took off on a tip and had the fuel unpost and he crashed in a parking lot but survived. He was trying to get them to change a POH or something to specify for his model year to always take off on a main tank like som eo...

I forgot to link the cable I use- it has a little dial on it for input volume. Works well with the ipHone. I also use the Lightspeed Flightlink app to record bluetooth audio but it has a major bug that deletes the recording when you try to share it. I was really bummed out losing a whole...