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Your concern seems entirely justified to me. Your mechanic could be legal PIC, but it sounds like you wouldn't be insured. It certainly seems unlikely that your insurance company would pay you anything if the pilot at the time wasn't legal, so either way you're on the hook for the full cost of...

Strong gusty crosswind?

I wonder if he thought he'd fueled it, or someone else had, and didn't check until he was in the air. Oops. What typically happens next with something like this? $$ out the door to trailer your plane home of course. Traffic citation? FAA action of some sort?

No, but I've only recently started doing analysis regularly, so I don't really have trend data yet. I use Aeroshell W-100+. The lab didn't seem worried about it, so I won't either for now. :)

I generally don't let it get below 9, so maybe I'm blowing off more than I'm burning, though I don't notice too much of a mess. Just got the analysis back, which looks normal, though lots of phosphorous - I'll have to look up what that means.

I realize that oil consumption may vary quite a bit, but I want to get an idea of what the acceptable range is and when (absent any other signs of a problem) I should start to care? Lycoming O-540-B4-B5, currently I usually add a quart maybe every 4 or 5 hours of flight time, give or take...

I have a '73 Charger (Dakota, basically), and while you would be okay on gross weight, you'll be nose heavy and might need to throw some weight in the cargo area to stay within balance. However, the seat rails do not go as far back as they do in a 182; I'm 6'3" (long in the leg) and I have the...

It depends to some extent on what "down" means to you. There is no plane that could do this mission in my budget; presumably yours is considerably higher, but do you have a general range in mind?

Well, the question was more akin to "is this helmet that much better than the other one," but yes I take your point. Sounds like it's well worth the update. Thanks!

Yep, every time I ride, which is almost every day.