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KT-76A transponder inop, shop replaced an internal fuse and recalibrated ($170). Now a few hours later it's inop again. The panel fuse is good, so I suspect the internals again. What could cause repeated fuses to blow? I would like to keep the 76A limping along for another year or so until I...

Just got back from our lake house and it got me dreaming of a light amphibian, something like a Aventura, or maybe something a bit faster like an Osprey, so I could take off from my backyard strip and pull up to my dock less than an hour later. The town with the lake house has a nice little...

I got some and have only tried them on a couple of flights. I find that the little tan foamies are the best for my ears by far. The silicone trees were much louder, and the orange foamies I could never roll tight enough to get far enough into the ear canal to seal right. I pull up my ear and...

Thanks all, that's kind of what I thought given how it's worded. In any case, my goals aren't necessarily flying for hire, just pre-requisites for the CFI that I eventually plan for. Still need to do instrument, so the CPL wouldn't even be particularly useful for quite a while. Not much call for...

I have been thinking about working toward my CPL this summer, and was happy to see the new requirements don't need a complex for the checkride. In looking through 61.129 in the requirements it shows 10 hours complex training required. I have about 20 hours logged as PIC as sole manipulator...

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I own a 150D and live on a turf strip. Mine's 2700', but if I pay attention to technique I can consistently get off the ground in 600' and land in 400'. That's at near gross in summer. I've taken a 280# passenger and half fuel and my 200# self without trouble, although I used more like 900' to...

When I bought mine, I "gasp" didn't even get a prebuy. I had a pilot friend who was local to the plane take a couple of pictures of the plane and the logs, then wired money down, flew commercial down and flew it home, about 400 miles. I think I've spent about $1500 in maintenance including...

Sounds like a near twin to mine, '64D. Mine had about 4000TT, with 1250 SMOH in 1992, 500 on 4 new cylinders, similar basic VFR avionics. I paid $12,750 two years ago and it's been great to me. Not many expensive AD's to look out for, look for corrosion in the expected places, see how often it's...

My 150 is a real airplane, and I do travel in it occasionally, and the RV-12 beats it's performance in about every category. On a trip to Chicago, even a slow plane like mine makes the trip in half the time of driving, so not sure what's the reason to consider LSAs not useful for travel. Depends...

Already seen all my favorites mentioned, but it's no joke that my aviation interest and career began after seeing the Van Halen Dreams video with the Blues flying the A-4s. Can still get me choked up, still the best combo of music and flying I've seen.

The Hormel Spam Museum and Piggy Blue's BBQ. Wait, never mind, you mean the Texas Austin, not our Minnesota version :)!

No idea how it would work now, but the OP's arrangement is how I got my first airplane ride. My mom booked a 150 at a the local FBO (N704UY, crazy how that number sticks with me), then my uncle who was a CFII and ATP rated pilot met us at the airport and took me up. Pretty sure he was just...

Now, if they would just bloom all summer instead of only for a week, visitors wouldn't have such a hard time finding the runway amongst all the green corn and bean fields. When the clover blooms, it goes white, but even that gets lost in the green unless you know what to look for and where to...

I went about 30 miles to where the DPE was based. Was the first student my instructor had sent to this particular examiner, so he rode along to see how it went. Sat in on the oral with my and the examiners permission, then waited in the office during the ride. I passed, but was wrung out after...

The calculator showed pretty much exactly what my own estimates show, so it seems pretty good for simpler planes. For what it's worth, it came up with $41.50/hr. I fly a very basic 150, do most of my own maintenance minus the actual annual inspection, and own my hangar and runway. I don't set...

I agree that trying to match the aluminum would be tricky. I've seen a number of polished RVs with "silverish" cowlings and it never looks quite right. Hadn't even considered bringing the white down and around, but now that I look at it again, I think that's now my favorite approach. Thanks...

Hadn't thought of vinyl, good idea. We have a local sign shop that did the graphics on my FIL's RV-10. Bet they would have something close. In the meantime I may try some samples of different silvers/chromes and see if any would work. Patrick

So the 150 I have is mostly polished, with red accent on the top of the cowling and turtledeck and a white side stripe. One thing that bugs me about the scheme is the dorsal fairing is gray plastic, and doesn't look good next to the polished vertical or the red turtledeck. I'm looking to...

Wow, when you look it up the whole area looks like a large grid. Might be easy to get lost if you don't know the area. Your runway looks like the only grass on that plot haha. Do you farm that land next to it? Yup, one big grid, easy to get around if you're local, but have had outside visitors...