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Wow, beautiful snowy mountains. I always forget that most of the country is still cold this time of year.

I recommend the in-ear headsets. With good tips you can bring the noise down to ANR levels. I use custom molded ear pieces. Some even have ANR but I've never tried those. As for bluetooth, you can buy a bluetooth module separately and make any headset bluetooth enabled. The best reason to go...

I really like flying at night and I typically fly approaches at night for currency with a safety pilot. At night, even when flying VFR I use an approach as guidance to familiar and unfamiliar airports. Especially flying in to an airport with multiple runways and/or surrounded by city lights. My...

At Sun N Fun one year, I had custom ear tips molded. Custom tips + in-ear headset. Much cheaper that a Bose or Lightspeed, more head room, and less heat and sweat in Florida summer. Caveat, I fly a traveler with the O-320 and isn't as loud as a twin (I switched back to ANR headset for multi...

AA-5. I prefer the AA5 to the C172. But I'm now biased.

Maybe don't fly a Grumman, I'm more legs than torso at 6'1" and switched to in-ear headset and remove the seat cushion and sit directly on the seat pan to get more clearance. 205 lb

Trying to make a firm conclusion on a grainy pic. I've some prop nicks like that. Some fixed by mechanic and another time we sent the prop in for an overhaul. Came back looking like a brand new prop. Very likely some gravel or rock hit the prop on your last flight. One time the FBO fuel truck...

I used an aspen that seemed to randomly respond to the inputs using the knobs. Sorry nothing to add other than it seems that is a weak point in the hardware design.

I flew in the Arrow II for my complex. Taught to set 2400/22" but I haven't flown a long cross country in it. I'm planning to rent this Arrow to an airport along the path of the solar eclipse coming up. From Tampa, so I'll follow the advice above.

It's more expensive upfront, but I installed a hybrid water heater (uses a heat pump to heat a tank of water). The electricity use dropped significantly.

This is exactly what came to mind, a couple rockets on the wings, buy yourself a couple thousand feet climb?

Have almost 300k miles on my 1st gen Tundra. But it's soon to be up for sale. I might sell one of my motorcycles instead to keep it.

No sorry, I was asking from ignorance about skiing in aspen and skiing in general. I have no idea if those places are like Disney where it seems like unlimited visitors or if the slopes are very restrictive. Flying is an adventure and many pilots fly our little barely capable planes all over the...

If you own a plane, some years, the weather and maintenance issues will conspire to keep you from flying when you had big plans. But that is what back up refundable airline tickets are for. Is it really practical to make a last minute spontaneous ski trip to aspen? Or is it one of those things...

Your instructor should know, but it's all supervised or all solo. You can't mix and match.

Nothing wrong with LAL, go to the southside FBO self serve for best price. They got the VOR back up and running too.

There's also the rubberband trick to keep the pencil on your hand, though, I never tried it.

Lefty here too. I used to keep the pen or pencil in my left hand while flying. I could do 2 hours or more with a pencil in my left hand and not even notice it. Now I hang on my shirt collar. I agree with others that say to let go of the yoke and write the clearance. No shame in asking atc to...

They will have to release a new apple pencil specifically for soft screens.

Is this harness permanently installed in the plane? We need to make our own and I'm curious if we need to get the most flexible guy in the club (me) to contort to get under the panel every time a new update rolls out.