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    Purchase Hangar with ground lease?

    California has had some atrocious situations develop over time on public airports where either lazy or selfish managers are wooed into creating industrial air parks. Van nuya is one example- a developer comes in and takes over the “ground leases” and inflates them as they are for because, of...
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    Sleep overnight in small GA airports pilot lounge?

    1. If they have a lounge, it’s for our use. Period. 2. If a business places a bed for a customer’s use, use it. 3. Not all FBO’s are 24 hours. Plan around that. 4. The virtue signaling around whether or not someone is a professional pilot is garbage. First come, first served. Any...
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    New Pilot - Avionics Upgrade Question - Cessna 152

    I’ve spent tens of thousands on IFR panels, pre and post ADSB. By lobbying the previous administration to force ADSB, Garmin has made billions and the market hasn’t complained much - plenty of G5’s, G500/600’s, and GTN’s being sold in a virtual monopoly. Don’t touch your perfectly working...
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    The FAA knows no limit to their pettiness

    Bureaucrats working on their pension almost often make me queasy...and threads like these are the reason why. I would be interested in seeing the performance reviews and complaints against this petty cat. Getting away with malfeasance always empowers idiots.
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    Sold Flight Outfitters Flight Bags

    I’ll take it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Bi-Fold Kneeboard

    Do you use an iPad? Curious. Much as I dislike their prices, http://airgizmos.3dcartstores.com/iPad-Knee-Dock-Gen-1-4_p_44.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Aluminum polish

    How many of you stripped and polished your own airplane? Curious about your experience. Live in SoCal, airplane is hangared Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Aluminum polish

    So a recent a web article states it takes between 50 and 100 hours. Do you have a polished bird? What’s your experience? 70’s vintage 172. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Rentals near San Pedro.

    I’m so confused I had to read your message more than once. Perhaps I’m clueless or just missed any humor. While at A&E, the club was fairly diverse, with women and men, young and old. I never heard of it being it being lgbtq specific age it would surprise me if it was. I’m good friends with...
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    Someone should create an AOPA competitor

    I paid AOPA dues for 25 years. The whole BasicMed debacle has been underwhelming. As others mentioned, enlarging owner maintenance, particularly as technology has changed, can be enhanced. The change in avionics installs has made the easier but the cost hasn’t changed all while complexity...
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    Rentals near San Pedro.

    I’ve been a member of A&E and Long Beach. Hawthorne is cheaper. Long Beach is easier. Hawthorne is a real club, with all the politics that come with a 50 person club...and sadly there’s politics- ugh. Sometimes the votes members in charge do weird crap. 4 planes usually. Often the plane...
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    Backup AI for dual Aspens (non-MAX)

    Hmmm so STCs continue to catch up on the digital world- why not an RCA26 for the time being? I think that can be used as primary Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Install an Airgizmos mount or just velcro a case to the panel?

    This is the totality of all that is needed for a sturdy rock solid Mount of anything portable, made by RAM. The 1” ball. Some people window mount. Others yoke mount. I like the sturdy bolt on a place in the panel that will give me a solid hold. There are all sorts of lengths of...
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    Raptor Aircraft

    Rats! You got me :) As much as I hate to say it, this will not end well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Raptor Aircraft

    You all are a bunch of bullies, seriously. You take a man with obvious narcissistic personality disorder, whose delusions of grandeur get him to repurpose a successful aircraft as a model and completely screw it up with a European motor to match his European accent, all while he makes...
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    Install an Airgizmos mount or just velcro a case to the panel?

    Long time iPad user. In the bouncy soup I prefer garmin portables, as little as I like giving Garmin money. I’ve found the best mounts to use tend to be RAM mounts - fully adjustable anyway you want. Are you a glare shield person? Instrument panel hole person? Between the rails? Or yoke? No...
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    Changing CFI after checkride failure

    Talk about tangents and deviations :) the good OP wanted an opinion and here we are entirely weed-e-fied on SIDS and Stars. Poor OP. I hope he got the answer he was hoping for. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Changing CFI after checkride failure

    Russ, You couldn’t have been much more polite or decent in your query and the comment was not aimed at you, by design. Some of the advice you’re getting is rooted in some of the process, which creates what I consider to be dysfunctional behavior. I’ve seen my share of private pilots, be...
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    Changing CFI after checkride failure

    Ugh. Some of the responses in this thread made me queasy - namely a decision by an instructor to accept a student or not based on the instructor preserving their pass rate. I can’t imagine any of the FARs Intended this as an outcome of CFI surveillance. I’ve never failed a check ride, but...
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    I know they hate KSMO but this is getting ridiculous!

    It’s a park today! Why not a bigger park? (Hmm not likely). Next to the south east tiedowns, you’ll find a very cutesy soccer field, and a dog park for all those great chihuahuas and dorky yorkies that the local residents prefer. More green space for the residents would no doubt be welcome...
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