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It wasn’t a direct before and after, but my 180 was weighed after paint. It had been weighed 2 years previous. It appears that paint added 12 pounds, it was not painted previously.

I left TEX early one June morning. At 08:30 DA was 11,000

I’ve slept in my 180 several times. The 13 degree floor is just fine for sleeping.

Carb heat was on when it crashed.

Pilot is a friend of a friend. The conditions that night were poor. Ceilings approximately 600’, rain and potential icing conditions. He is an accomplished commercial pilot. That being said, late at night, IFR, in that plane, probably not the best decision to fly.

You are in your 20's. GO FLYING!

When I was looking for a DPE for instrument, the local guy was suggested. I was told to expect an 8 hour checkride, no thanks, I found a different DPE. Of course he was cheaper, and the ride was only a couple hours, and I passed. But he was so difficult and badgering and loud that I almost filed...

Some people like the idea of flying more than actually flying.

I think you may have him confused with someone else. I just looked it up, a video up for 4 hours has over 5k already. I saw videos listed with over 500k vies, he has about a half million subcribers. His is probably the biggest of the backcountry aviation content channels. I would suspsect that...

I would bet that it will take you just as many flight hours to pass a sport checkride as a private checkride. Savings nil. I started out doing sport, I am now commerial single, multi, instrument, and seaplane.

And here I thought this was an April Fools thread.

I removed one of those mason jar beacons from the back of my 180, put on a sun beacon 2. Super bright light, do not look at it even in bright sunlight. I saw zero increase in speed. Sun beacon 2 is about 1.75" in diameter and sticks up about 1.25", weighs a bunch less too.

My 180 with a PPonk will still climb 500fpm at 14,000. I used to take it into a 1700' hayfield at 8000' in the heat of the afternoon with a full load. A well built 520 will do just fine without forced induction. Supercharger is significant extra weight, extra heat, and lots of extra parts to break.

How about mind your own business? This B.S. about how sometime, somewhere, something bad could happen, people have gotten so concerned about everyone else's lives. What if someone noticed you do something stupid and called the FAA to say you are unfit to fly because they saw you? What did they...

Unless you buy a POS, annuals should never be $25 to $50k, or anywhere close to that. In 7 years of owning my 180 I have had to replace 1 cylinder and overhaul 2, overhaul the carb, some rod ends, a fuel bladder, a new tailwheel, and maybe some other small stuff. Everything else I spent was by...

I have a Cessna 180 back seat, with seatbelts. It is powerful ugly, gold and brown. $300obo It is in Salmon Idaho

If you are on an assigned heading, I don't think it matters. I guess you are either IFR or FF?

I too have G5 yellow heading indications now and then. After adding the gfc500, everything seemed to work fine, now several months later the GFC500 will not stay in heading mode when the G5 gives a yellow heading. It first happened last October, got into some rough air and it kicks over to roll...

The mountains are really not that scary! If you are flying anything with ANY performance, you can readily fly all over Colorado. Tennessee pass is NOT a steep valley with rocks pointing out to grab you, in fact that is the case with almost every pass. Independence pass is tight in a car, but...