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Another vote for keep the Lance. Especially if you’re going to keep carrying medical patients. The rear door makes entry so easy. It’s not blazing fast and the gear ups the maintenance a little bit, but it’s pretty hard to beat a PA-32 for all-around utility and comfort, especially for the price.

If they’re old enouh to be sent to war, then they’re old enough to vote on it.

Friendly But Inept Forever Bothering Italians I’m retired LE, too.

Even if they can physically do it, there are an awful lot of people out there who go into lizard brain at the mildest stress, and won’t be mentally capable of opening the emergency exit.

Bump my budget for a plane purchase. With what I got for the RV-8, an extra 100 puts me deep into well-equipped low engine time 182 territory. Or a very nice Cheetah with plenty left for all of the taxes.

How much did Flying pay you for that rage bait?

SK is still around. From reading various sites, it looks like some of their tools are made just across town from Lycoming engines and some are made in China. Apparently anything from SK sold on Amazon is Chinese. https://sktools.com/collections

One reason I’ve heard is that a certificate is documentation of something achieved, such as passing a checkride (or demonstrating satisfactory performance on an oral and practical examination), versus a license grants authorization to act. Well, you can’t legally fly without a pilot...

Because pedantry and publicly correcting others is a common substitute for self-confidence.

One of our neighbors got his private ticket, bought a Cherokee, and within two years had flown to all of the lower 48 states - landed in each one - VFR the entire way. Another neighbor has done that in his Stearman, rarely going above 1500 AGL.

I had the same thought. Which sent me looking up Jerry Airola. Turns out he’s still a crook. He somehow managed to go into law enforcement, working for several departments (that apparently don’t do background checks, or that have no standards). He was recently indicted for official misconduct...

There a lot of planes out there that are overequipped for the owner’s mission. Look how many RVs - or even factory-built planes - are stuffed with multiple-screen glass cockpits, full-featured autopilots, multiple alternators and batteries, and are flown day VFR for 20 hours a year. And then the...

The town where I used to live in California has some alcoholic fruits…oh wait, those were at this one bar that we didn’t go to…

I’ve heard or read interviews with several Navy and Air Force aviators who were inspired to become fighter pilots by The Blue Angels, The Thunderbirds, or watching Top Gun.

I find epic-ness in so many things, but one that comes to mind right away is walking through the gate at an airshow around 1980 and seeing The Eagles doing their triple (side-by-side-by-side) hammerhead. Watching the Heritage Flight, and as the P-51 and F-22 round the corner, “We Remember”...

NOTAM AMNDNT 1: MANCARD RVKD FOR AP MGMT STAFF. SHLD KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS BEFORE ADULTHOOD.

Wouldn’t it be quicker and easier to just replace the bulb than to get a NOTAM issued?

The ATR’s ceiling of 250 would be under standard conditions. Summertime in the tropics it won’t get anywhere near that high. And 250 may well not be above the ice.

The DPE situation sucks. But why not just go put and solo and build experience while waiting? Isn’t that what you’ll be doing once you get your ticket? Nothing says a solo student can’t go on a breakfast or burger run, a sunset flight, or add airports to your logbook. The only difference is you...

If a student quits aviation because he can’t wait for a DPE, there is no loss of a future aircraft owner. Someone who gives up that easily won’t make it through the purchase process. Oh, maybe he will buy a plane someday, but he’ll walk at the first annual for sure.