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Time wise it's a tie between Appleton to Greenbay and Travis AFB to McClellen, at about 12 minutes. Distance it's about 300 yards, from one side of the Akwe River to the other, up by Yakutat, Alaska.

There is a reason airlines require "sterile cockpit" procedures below 10,000 feet. Nothing not related to the flight is done or discussed below ten.

My overhauled engine nearly completed.

My FO made the mistake of neglecting to start the APU taxiing in, I made the bigger mistake of not catching it before shutting down the third engine.:rolleyes:

Many, many good BBQ joints in Memphis and Southaven, MS.

Mags only have 200 hours on them, exhaust, alternator and starter are fine so are being re-installed. I put on a new carb, but mainly because the original is 50 years old and it just seemed like the right thing to do. If you add up the other things, not related to the engine, the price is...

I'm at 28K for the overhaul on my O-470. That's with factory new cylinders.

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Puerto Rican Pork Chop.

I while back I had an FO that was very young looking, he was always taking crap from mechanics about looking too young to fly. I was a very young looking Marine Corps pilot many years ago and recall the same comment from a Navy Chief, my response "I'm old enough for you to salute an officer."...

Sad day. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2018/05/accident-occurred-may-27-2018-at.html

An O-470 makes enough ice for cocktails, that's for sure!

The nose wheel brake proved to be ineffective and was removed, the idea was to increase stopping power. We used a motorcycle hand brake on the flap handle. The original Mighty Mouse was a 1965 150E. Thor and I "borrowed it" one time and flew it up to the San Juan Islands. We didn't count on...

It is fun to fly, that's the Mighty Mouse (N12MM), built by Lynn Emrich in the late 1970s for short takeoff and landings. I flew it back in 1978-79 towing gliders at the old Issaquah Glider Center. When I was flying it the electrical system and anything else not required had been removed. It had...

I'm daydreaming about putting my newly overhauled engine back in my Cessna 180.

Yes the bugs are that bad. Black Flies, also called white socks, and mosquitos.

Consider inflatable floation/survival vests for all occupants. You will be flying over a lot of water if you go up the coastal route. Make sure that any vest is manual inflate only, not water activated. I will be flying the coast route in a couple of months myself and will have floatation...

We are told that there can be 100+ knot jet blast 300-500 or more feet behind us. With breakaway thrust (thrust to start the airplane moving from a stopped position) it can be dangerous 600-900 feet behind us. That is from an MD-11, a B-747, B-767 or any similar sized airplane would be about the...

SCEL, Santiago, Chile