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I too fly mainly for social reasons so the number of flights have about halved. I hadn’t flown for about 45 days before the pandemic because I needed to upgrade my ADS-B setup for a flight into South America. Spent a lot of energy and some money getting prepped for the trip which in the end...

Seems more like a fetish... but I guess I get it. I get hot and bothered about doing night landings on grass in a taildragger, so there’s that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

The frustration, stubbornness, and determination to get it right is why you are going to be a fine pilot. Sounds like you are a normal student pilot discovering the lifetime challenge of making consistent landings. You’ll get it, but then you’ll still miss a few no matter who you are or what...

Thinking about the rest of your cross country, it sounds like you may have done a bunch of cloud busting in order to get some turbulent IMC time. That’s what I ended up doing on my cross country on an otherwise VFR day. It was a bit stomach churning and exhausting in a non-AP equipped Maule...

Thanks folks. That was the ‘problem’. Funny thing is that I regularly use the scratchpad; typed for squawks and hand drawn for clearances. ForeFlight has allowed me to go totally paperless over the past 9 years flying IFR in my RV10. The clearance writing part got a real workout a few days...

Anyone know what these lines are? I’ve removed all map overlays from this view but no matter what combination of overlays I add, the lines remain. They only appear in the Phillie/NJ region. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

A few years ago my wife and I spent a couple of weeks auto touring Italy with a lovely week in Tuscany. I don’t recall seeing or hearing a single piston powered aircraft the entire time. Thanks for the trip report. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

This means that they have a new offering in the wings. No matter, trade up. I may join you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’ve grown to like a castering nosewheel. I used to push my taildragger around so there’s that. I enjoy exercising some foot dancing skills as I try to stay off the brakes. But it does require a tow bar for ground handling. There’s less to maintain for a self maintainer. Seemed weird at...

RV-10 - performance/price Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’m thinking traffic cone not moved before taxi. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

As the owner of a 17’ Jon boat and as a bass fisherman, I hate those darn wakeboard boats! A boat designed to create a large draggy wake that upsets other boats and erodes the shoreline is a curse on our waterways. Owners of such boats don’t deserve comparison with any pilot, even Cirrus...

Airways? Reroutes? Aren’t Victor airways VOR to VOR? Yes, being cleared for Victor airways have become a ‘deplorable’ practice mainly limited to congested areas on the coasts. But for those of us flying where most people live have to put up with them. The 430/530 is yesterday’s industry...

Did you think going from a 480 to a 430 was an upgrade? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Conversely, if you are at the beginning of your flying journey and somewhere near the beginning or at least middle of flying life, get what appeals to your desires and capabilities now, then move up or sideways or whatever as your tastes develop. After getting my PP SEL, I dropped it all to get...

I agree with Salty. My guess is that you will end up navigating on your portable. The panel works as is. Don’t think too hard about backups and inadvertent IFR. Keep it VFR operationally. In hazy VFR like some of us saw or are seeing due to the dust storm, the TC is easier to fly well...

He needs a pee bag... perhaps a crap bag as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

As you know, it’s not the ‘talking on the radio’ part, it’s the confidence to work with ATC as valuable resource rather than as some kind of boss or something. Especially so with NY ATC ‘if you can make it here....’ Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Kind of a small house with a big adult play room. I like it! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

On an interesting note, a friend down here on Abaco was talking about some local underwater caves. There was a mystery concerning a couple of feet sediment. Analysis indicated that it was Saharan dust. A couple of feet’s worth. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro