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Thank you. We are looking at the intake valves to see whether they are seating properly. But wanted to check on other potential causes.

2 cylinders actually. #2 and #4

Could clogged or partially clogged fuel nozzles on a carburated O-320 cause a cylinder to run lean/hot?

Your reply is probably the closest to what I was seeking, but still too far away to make sense. As you say, going in the opposite direction. Best of luck to you! Hish

Good question about insurance. What if I sit in the airplane to satisfy insurance but not act as PIC or pilot for that matter?

I have a friend who wants to fly my 172. Can I legally allow him to fly it as long as he covers all the actual operating expenses? Not just oil and gas as in the pro rata sharing provisions, but all that would normally be estimated in operating expense? Engine reserve, tie down, maintenance and...

Same. I live in Connecticut and free ground shipping from PA usually has orders at my door the next day. Way better than Amazon because they don't throw packages out the van window as they do a drive-by.

I spaced out and was thinking about idle speed for some reason. The mag check is done at 1800 RPM. I corrected it above.

FYI, I do the mag check between 1800 RPM and full rich mixture. The airplane is new to me as I just bought it last month, but it has been doing that since the first flights. It's just that my CFI had me wondering if something was wrong. Thank you all for the reassuring information!

Yes, 35-50 on both mags so between 5-15 between the two. I've never seen such a low spread and my instructor was a little concerned about why it was so low.

On my airplane with a Lycoming O-320, the mag drops are in the range of 35-50 RPM on both the left and right mag. Does this indicate a potential problem with P-leads the way no mag drop would? Does it indicate a timing issue? I believe if it was a spark plug issue the drop would have been...

Thank you!

Has anyone used Insight J type probes with a JPI EDM? Specifically a 760 but I think 730 and others use the same K type probes as well. I thought there was a setting in the JPI EDMss to use the K JPI or J type insight probes? I ask because I need to replace a set of 4 probes and already have 4...

Cool. That must've been fun with such a short runway and no approaches! :)

Thank you everyone. Much appreciated.

Go off King.

I frequently file and fly IFR from KHFD to KACK. I usually request HFD V167 PVD V146 ACK. However, without fail, I'm always assigned NEWBE and DEEPO between PVD and ACK. These fixes put me as much as 15 miles out over the ocean and away from land. To be honest, I don't feel great about that...

To clarify, it's not about ability. It's about decision making and risk management.

The larger point, which I think you are missing, is that there are more reasons to want the safety net than you can imagine. How about a medical issue that comes up? What about a vacuum failure? A rate based autopilot is a great thing to have in that case. You keep trying to make this about a...

First, at a minimum, an autopilot can be a safety net against task saturation and upset recovery. There are many more things that can go wrong in a flight that you can think of and it's great to have a safety net. I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't want one. On a long IFR, an autopilot has been...