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Another taildragger convert in the making! :thumbsup: Early morning prepping the Dawg for a flight:

Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner. Amazing the Metroliner didn't break up in flight after that hit. If reports are correct it appears the Cirrus was off course for the assigned runway. They are quite close together, the threshold of 17R is inset from 17L, which is the main runway, so the Cirrus...

I tell all my friends that's what keeps my marriage together. We have absolutely nothing in common. Therefore nothing to ever argue about. :) She has horses. My "horses" guzzle 100LL like it's never going away. Peace and harmony reigns. ;)

Hmmm. I had heard they were all being retrained for high paying jobs in the new, green economy...installing solar panels or some such. :rolleyes:

It started with retail and industrial/commercial demand falling off rapidly with the lockdowns. That then backed up through the wholesale racks to the refinery complex, then upstream into the crude distribution system (of which Cushing is a highly visible part) and finally all the way back to...

We will probably be largely off the stuff before that happens. That's the typical pattern for energy sources throughout human history. The Peak Oil frenzy about 15 years ago was hilarious. We were in no danger of running out of the stuff. We're just running out of the cheaper sources of it -...

I'm assuming this happened sometime in the past, and not recently? Are you still flying the US Pacific Northwest backcountry? If you are able could you give a little more amplification on the decision making around the oil analysis results please? I currently don't use oil analysis. The...

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I'd be ordering up an Uber.;)

FTFY :D My wife has horses. I own two airplanes ONLY because I think it's my duty to give her some solid competition in the race to bankrupt the family first. Age: Getting older, but I'll never grow up. Current Planes: 1979 Piper Aztec and 1996 Aviat A-1 Husky. Partnership: Aztec, no; Husky...

^^^ This. Doesn't cost any more to make a habit of running on the top half of the tank as the bottom half. Now please excuse me as I have to go and check my t-paper inventory.

Billing? I don't think so. No, they could not pump fuel. The entire line, as most major pipelines today, is a highly automated operation run (most often) from a single operations center. All the pumps, automated valving, tankage inventory management, mass flow balancing for leak detection...

This will be over much faster than people realize. It's a hack, not a pipeline failure or rupture. The industry will keep moving product out of the Gulf Coast refining centers by rail, barge and road tanker as shutting down a refinery and then restarting it is a major operation. The hoarding...

Unlike a car or motorcycle, as an example, the fixed costs of owning an airplane are quite high. I must admit I am really surprised at the number of people paying tie-down or hangar rent for years, even decades, as the plane becomes a derelict. The pictures on this thread are sobering; some of...

I solved this problem by re-locating my (non-aviation) business office from downtown to the airport. ;)

The 25K probably includes replacing the propeller as well as tearing down and inspecting the motor.

It's a prop strike IRAN, not an overhaul.

Paging @Jesse Saint or @Ryan Klems For the 650xi, from the Garmin website: Input voltage range: 11 VDC - 33 VDC So you shouldn't have any problem putting the 650xi into your 28v airplane. But you better check with the instrumentation experts here about what you might need from Garmin to...

What Cirrus did to address this issue is a good example of improving pilot proficiency. Up to about 2010 or 2011 the Cirrus fatal accident rate was about double the GA fleet average. The training had a measurable effect on the Cirrus fatal accident rate, which I understand is now running...

I'm not ever going to argue that a twin is "safer" or "less safe" than a single engine airplane. What I will argue is NO airplane is "safe" in the hands of a pilot that tries to fly it outside it's known flight envelope. Even a Cessna 150 will try to kill you if you disrespect this fact - but...