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I worked with Chuck for 6 years, and he gave me my best flight review/acrobatic lesson ever in his Extra. He was such an accomplished pilot, I think this really emphasizes the danger inherent in low level acro, there's just no margins for any trouble. He will be missed.

First, manifold pressure in a naturally aspirated engine will always fall with altitude, nothing to do with HP/complex. Just that most non-complex planes don't have a MP gauge so you don't see it. Not sure why you'd be starting at only 23 inches though, unless you're at a pretty high elevation...

I'll look to see if it's rs 232. If so, good to know it can be spliced together. I'm ok with electrical, but electronics/data/signal stuff I'm still very much learning.

My FIL flies an RV-10 with an older panel. He likes his 796 for what he does, which is mostly VFR navigation and traffic. He gets ADSB in on his 345 transponder and has it linked by Bluetooth to the 796. He just got a second 796 because he wants one for the copilot spot because his wife likes to...

I'm always a bit paranoid when mowing my grass strip, even though only myself and two hangar mates use it. We are charted as private but the strip has been here since well before we bough it, so there are some old timers around that knew the previous owner and sometimes drop in for a few touch...

I live on my grass strip, surrounded by corn and beans, and especially around dusk there are often deer on the runway. They usually clear out with a low pass, but I always worry about one coming out of the corn at the last second. When I was learning to fly, I was working at the FBO as a...

I just got a 3rd class last week, at an AME that's part of the occupational medicine group at a larger clinic, and it was $365. It seemed fair to me, and I really like this doc, but it's definitely gone up since a few years ago.

My kids are a little older now, but they enjoyed the bus ride out to the seaplane base and the free pontoon boat ride around the harbor.

My family, specifically my teenage sons, love SPAM. We buy it by the case. I learned to fly in Austin MN, and downwind for 36 (now 35) goes almost over the Hormel plant where SPAM is made. You can smell it from the air or the road driving by, depending on the wind. The SPAM museum in downtown...

I'm based in my back yard and don't have a fuel tank, so I often make a 7 minute flight to the nearest fuel to top up. I can use mogas, so sometimes I'll fill from jugs at home, but still probably do that 7 minute flight regularly. I've never worried about it much. I run cam-guard, and mix in...

We decided to consolidate into one tractor to do most of our yard, runway, and homestead work. Found a 3 year old JD 3032R with R4 tires, loader with 6' bucket, and 72" belly mower. I added a 74" rear snowblower. I love it, it does 95% of what we need with no messing around. I'm going to add a...

I live in SE MN with a pretty large wind farm just west of me. I personally hate the synchronized red blinking lights. I was contacted by the power company at one point to ask how I felt about them switching to a transponder activated light, that would only illuminate when an aircraft was near...

I've got some time in an older PA32-300 that had close to #1500 useful, so it could be done with main tanks full and no aux fuel, but that'd be tight, and no luggage. Also, my 17 yo son is 6'4" and #260 alone, and his 'little' 15 yo brother is 6'5" and #210, so weight aside, they just don't fit...

Well, my immediate family weighs about #1150 and needs 7 seats, so 'take the whole family' means something different to me! How big a family and how long of trips? Makes a huge difference in what's available. For me at least, no GA plane will take my whole family until you get up to cabin class...

You've already gotten a lot of good suggestions, but I'll throw mine in. I fly a C150, and I think it'd be hard to find a more reasonable time builder. I've owned for 6 years now, and my all in costs, including fuel, oil, annuals, a few repairs, and insurance, it has averaged out to just over...

No, because different airfoils have different max lift AOA, and different airframes have different drag coefficients, and both play into overall LD ratio.

On the taking flaps back out question, I do it pretty much every time I do a power off landing (assuming I'm in the pattern somewher past midfield downwind). SOP for me in my lowly 150D, is put in 20 as soon as power goes away, make a tighter base, then use the flap handle like a throttle. I can...

My FIL had two GTR-200b radios installed in his RV, and found he could not use the intercom or Bluetooth due to internal settings in the radios themselves. They can act as intercom, but not if you also have an audio panel intercom. Maybe a similar issue? If so, we were told that that there's no...

I was 26, soloed at 12.1 hours and checkride at 40.1. This was in 2003. I was flying 2-4 times a week and working at the FBO as a mechanic for the summer and had a lot of motivation to finish before going back to school in the fall.

Mine is at 11.4%, as a low time pilot with only PP and a HP endorsement.