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Yes, flying small plane is unforgiving. But accidents like this are part of the statistical well. Analogous to perhaps, deciding to drive a car when one is too drunk to walk. Unforgiving and unfortunately, highly visible in the media. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

My wife was just showing me a video of a friend experiencing her first snow on a visit to TX. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Jesse, I’ve run a lot of comm or ‘serial’ lines in my ‘10 panel. Thanks for the excellent explanation of how they are used. The practice I ended up following was to always run a shielded cable and to attach the shield to ground on one end. Never detected any data problems. Any thoughts about...

An observation: The house with the integral hangar (or the hangar with the integral house) is sort of fantasy playhouse for many of us. Living with one’s plane(s) sort of turns the suburban ideal of living with an attached 3 car garage on it’s ear. It’s a lifestyle statement, real cool...

I’m at Lake Ridge. You are at Long Island as I recall. We met in person a few Oshkoshes ago. You were still building and hadn’t moved down yet. I had been commuting into Lake Norman AP for weekend lake time and had been watching Long Island develop. I’ve got 3.5 acres on the strip with the...

Indeed! I had 3 meniscus surgeries 10 years ago. Not sure whether 2nd story office or climbing up and down my almost complete RV10 was worse. I write this after my 1st 2nd story foray following knee replacement. Took 2 weeks to get here. Nothing lasts forever. 1st floor master bed/bath...

Yes, all that. A couple of random notes. We found a well located Airpark close to where we both were going to work. The strip was a bit rundown, the subdivision only half built, and the head guy recently died. Only a dozen airstrip homes, the remaining 40 lots had no access. Coming to NC from...

I built a modest (<2,000sf) standalone home and an oversized hangar (40x60). I prefer having the two spaces separate. The hangar was too big until I decided to build a kit plane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Looks good to me for VFR CC! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

What are you flying? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I may be a bit naive but I rarely hesitate to fly into a public use airport in a plane as light as a 140. At least not due to poor runway conditions. Why? It’s kind of difficult for any entity to survive ownership of a public airstrip with plane swallowing cracks. Reading this thread I...

Or best of all, get an EFIS the runway pictured and center the needles then fly the FPM (Flight Path Marker) by putting it on the touchdown point. Synthetic vision combined with an FPM and is hard to resist. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Departing 32 at my home base of 8NC8, flying a heading of 326 and landing KDAN’s 31 (heading 314 degrees). I am entertained by the number of flights where I would I would never make a 360 from tie down to tie down in my Maule. I should be dinged for improper pattern work but I was always...

My favorite ‘trick’ at KCLT was to do a super short landing on 23 and let the tower know at touchdown that I could take turn off on D. That would take you straight to Wilson without crossing the two main runways. I recall trying this a number of times and only getting it approved twice; once...

The time can be extended and the money spent incrementally. If you can satisfy your flying needs in what you are flying and find the time and money to build kit sections, it can be very doable. If you are building only to fly, it’s often a mistake. But you’ve already tasted the joys of...

I’d suggest that if the task is to find a safe spot to crash/land on, a top priority is knowing the wind - approximate direction and speed. In any situation with a 10 knot or better wind, the ‘circle’ around things you can reach is more of an oval and you are on the upwind end of oval...

You are now ready for a kit plane. How does an RV10 sound? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

The real question is why do most high performance sailplanes come from Europe? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Minimum sink speed (which I think is typically close to Vx) has no place in your engine out planning. Once you have the field made, slowing to minimum speed is good for survivability and such but it will never get you to the right field. Best glide (roughly Vy?) is the number to have your...

Are they gone yet? Chances are, from what I’ve been told, that’s the case. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro