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Yes - that can be done - anything can be done! Everyone dogs the KMA 20 because it’s old- and it is old. However, it was a good unit in the day and many soldier on today - I just do not recommend making any investment that would “marry” you to it which doing the new GPS install will do...

My favorite is the Twilight Zone movie where the flying monster (or whatever) does in flight engine maintenance like a union Eastern Airlines mechanic! The scene finishes playing the midnight special.

As a LSU person it's interesting to note that this ghost plane stuff started in 1980 with the Conquest with LSU's football coach on it - way back time but I don't really recall any accidents of this type prior to that. Some pretty spectacular ones since then Payne Stewart, TBM owner...

Hi folks, I'm hearing news of sonic booms in DC and a Citation down in SW Virginia. Lots of rumors (perhaps just that) on twitter. What's up folks?

Coming to your nearest Cessna 172 or Piper Warrior - a Rotax 916?

So this gentleman was I guess trying to get to Florida on a long cross country originating in Maine. That's a pretty good trip this time of year - lots of folks will push back on this but if you are going to do trips like that you really need an instrument rating - otherwise, you see too many of...

I'm sure some of you are curious about why I asked about mixing the AV30 and either a G5 or GI275 HSI. I've presently got an AV30 attitude indicator with a vacuum DG - happy with the AV30 - it works fine. I've also got an STEC30 that uses the heading bug on my vacuum DG. My plan was to switch...

Hi folks, If I've got an AV30 as an attitude indicator and add either a G5 or GI275 as an HSI - can I ditch my vacuum system? Can you mix and match like that?

I think by the time they got to the MX170c they were doing a pretty good job - then they shutdown.

I’ve got a MX170c - when I bought it I thought of going with a GNC255 but the rewire and everything made just sliding something in appealing. Their retrofit approach was kind of old school -reminiscent of the days when you would top an engine on an old plane rather than overhaul it because the...

It's easy to look at a plane and think you are going to hop into it and just fly away. What you have here is a plane that needs at very bare minimum an engine done pronto - I'd budget 40AMU for that as it will likely need/ should have done mufflers, mount work, accessories, etc. as well. Bad...

Hi folks, I'm being told that it is appropriate to use Lubriplate Aero to lubricate a trim jackscrew on a Warrior. The maintenance manual calls for Lubriplate 907 but it seems folks are using the Aero as I suspect it's likely a more modern product. Moreover, it seems you can buy the Aero in a...

Ok folks, I like to think I know about such things, but I'm clueless what you all are talking about when you mention a "Fast Stack"?

Hi folks, I keep hearing that a post 100,000 serial number KT76A transponder is still a very usable transponder. My understanding is that it is a solid state (???) and does not have the tube earlier KT76s had, thus it's a viable unit and it makes sense to repair/replace should it fail. What...

Hi again folks, Kind of related to my earlier post and why we should all be so careful. Fly safe - fate is the hunter

I wouldn’t recommend testing this out in practice, but I suspect where most of your deviations come from is when you bust the Bravo and cause a conflict or when you bust the Bravo in an area where the flow is transiting. I transition the Bravo frequently around Scott AFB where the poster got...

That's a very feathered propeller in the picture - perhaps impact damage - also apparently a fire - that's an odd combination I think.

So we all know a Warrior is pretty docile but when you get disoriented you can get things screwed up pretty fast. I've never owned and flow anything other than a Warrior - same one for over 2000 hours. I know 2000 hours in a Warrior...... Anyhow, back before my IR when I had no sense and like...

Here's some more video https://www.the-sun.com/news/6712982/passenger-plane-crash-lands-peru/

So I could not resist looking back on my Champaign approach twilight zone moment - so the frequency I was on was 121.35 which is Champaign’s North approach frequency. 12.35 is also Atlanta Center’s Sector 49 “LOGEN Low” frequency. Interestingly, that Atlanta center remote transmit is on Mt...