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That is a concern, while I typically put in 60-100hrs per year I do almost all of it between May thru August. Plus of course it is just retract time, and not Complex time. I just recently checked a guy out in one of these. Would be a great deal if the stars aligned, does pretty much require a...

Just lazy and didn't think I needed to advertise my CFII credentials on that post.

I bought a $12,000 sailplane, and logged almost a 1000 hours of retract time it. Average flight time about 4.5 hrs per flight. I figured tows, maintenance, and insurance cost me about $30/hr to fly it. Brian

There may not be much left of the airplane by the time they are done impounding it. Likely will call their normal tow company or crane company that likely has no idea what they are doing and are there just to get it off of the road. Brian

If I ever got dumb enough to try transporting illegal drugs in an airplane that is exactly what my Karma would do to me. Have an engine failure, followed by forced landing on the freeway right in front of the K9 unit. Brian

To look at this statement as just a general statement and go off topic a bit more. I turns out adding flaps as a safety factor is a bit of a mixed bag in most aircraft. True, adding flaps lowers the stall speed. What seems to be less well known is that adding flaps generally tends to make the...

So short version Newtons says if you push on it, it will move. Bernoulli says it will push on it, if air is flowing over a curved surface. That sound right?

I use the acronym REMM,M which mirrors a number of factory checklists. Radios Electrical Switches Mixture Master , Wait for engine to stop turning Mags Brian

I just sat on Jury earlier this month where the Plaintiff must have paid the attorney vs a contingency fee, because I don't think there any any way their attorney would have taken the case as a contingency. Either that or the attorney was very hungry and didn't have anything better to do. At a...

your probably right the E i fly seems faster, it has a lot of the J model mods to it. Brian

I do like flying the E model I have access to. Great cross country airplane. The J model is nice for the larger back seat at the expense of being slightly slower. I thought one of the nicest ones was the J Model with a Rayjay Turbo charger (Turbo Normalized) But I never got a chance to fly...

The guy I checked out the C model, He thought the 180 was a bit underpowered for it, he really wished he had a the FI/200hp model. His also had Electric gear. He had a bit bit of sticker shock at what a replacement gear motor cost, (or maybe it was a gear in the electric system) . He didn't need...

Been a long time since I did any work in aircraft design (25+ years) and then it was only single engine aircraft. But no one else has really answered so I will say what I can about it. But I bet it is unlikely the engine are mounted with a 0 Thrust angle. It of course depends where they are...

Need to remember the CFI notebook is for the CFI, or maybe more appropriately the CFI applicant. Building the CFI notebook is a great method for the CFI applicant to make sure they understand and can teach the topics. So whatever helps the CFI applicant learn/remember the subject/lesson. This is...

Friend of mine logged a bunch of hours in a Pietenpol, I did a few laps around the pattern in it. Was a tight fit for my 230lb, 6ft frame. No way I could have got into the front seat. He sold it and bought a Fly Baby, but ended up selling it before he flew it. I thought the Fly Baby would...

My insurance checkout in a J4 cub consisted of me, the 300+lb instructor and his dog doing one lap around the pattern. We never got above 300ft AGL. neither one of us wanted to do another lap. He got out and did the insurance sign off for the J-4 for me. Brian

Another vote for Farm Bureau, I have been using them for 40+ years now, father and now son as my Agent. I tried shopping around 1 year and tried State Farm when they quoted me a significantly lower rate, then 3 months into the new year, State Farm raise my rates to the same as I would have paid...

I like the no flap approaches in the most Cessna Singles. If you are doing actual IFR approaches at most anything but remote airports you are going to hear "Maintain Max forward Speed" rather frequently. If you can slow down, 10 degrees and flying at 90 kts will slow the needle swings down for...

I have had a number of people let me fly their planes over the years, they just add me as named to their insurance, They send me an insurance form to update once a year when they update their insurance. Tends to be a win-win for everyone. I get access to an airplane to fly. Most don’t fly...

My son had many hours riding in the back while I provided instruction. It was fun to a 6 year old flying and have him make better radio calls than the student pilots in the pattern, but in a six year old voice:) Brian