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What are the top three things you'd want to check before buying this beauty? (wrong answers only please) https://desmoines.craigslist.org/avd/d/pella-old-airplane/6961163689.html

If you're thinking about jumping into a smart watch, I'd just recommend one with physical buttons you can assign as hotkeys. My Fossil Gen 4 has two of them, one of which is the stopwatch "app".

Thanks for sharing. I would imagine they don't try to achieve the same level of passive isolation since they've got the ANR - have you used them at all without the batteries?

I'll boost the SAC museum in between Lincoln and Omaha. The cool thing about it is that since it's all about SAC, it captures a "moment" (albeit a fairly long moment) that stretches roughly from the golden age of piston aircraft to the SR-71. The big hangar is laid out almost like a tree - as...

I've been thinking about getting into an in-ear headset. Has anybody tried the Crazed Pilot (https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/avpages/crazedpilot11-16631.php)? Their claimed reduction in DB is only 22, which is quite a bit lower than CA or Faro. Then again, so is the price.

Easily my SPL checkride. My right seat (retired United captain, if I remember correctly) kept urging me to tighten my traffic pattern. By the end of our pattern work he had my crosswind/base at maybe 1/2 or 2/3 what I had done all through my training. If you know KLNK, we were making left...

Hey there. Privacy and Data Security attorney here. I'm not going to go into the very interesting legal arguments in this thread, but I have a favor to ask. Another pilot/attorney and I are working on an article covering GDPR and other privacy regulations' effects in GA. If you've got any...

Mine introduced crosswind correction and just wouldn't let me move the yoke unless a change in direction justified it starting on lesson 2, I think. I seem to remember something about a sailboat analogy (the sail doesn't work until we're up in the wind, so just use the rudder).

Buy a setter and let her guilt you into running every morning. It's magical.

:yes: It doesn't make a lot of sense to compare it to a Mooney or Bo, even though the engine/complexity might be similar. It's a step up (or at least sideways) from a 172, not a step down from a HP cruiser. I say that as a guy who's only flown PA28s and C172s - felt like a slight improvement...

Also true. I was definitely imagining a simultaneous all-system failure in my mind, which is obviously unlikely. That's another reason I want to keep training. Throughout your PPL training, you talk through all kinds of system failures, but one of the only knee-jerk "instincts" you viscerally...

It was pretty cool on Saturday morning when I took that lesson, but we were seeing well over double those climb rates even during pattern work. It does have a STOL kit installed (don't know by whom yet). Somebody also mentioned a 12 second up/down time - this one sure seemed a lot quicker than...

One specific maneuver, if you haven't done it yet: have your instructor pull your power on downwind with no notice. My examiner did that, and while my instructor had obviously done it out over the practice area I don't think we'd done it in the pattern. The examiner made (actually "let" - I...

Very cool. My first passenger after my check ride was Grandpa, a very high hour but recently retired pilot. On another occasion, I got a chance to fly right seat with my dad at left and my grandpa in the back. Didn't take a picture either time. :mad2: Little brother punched his ticket last...

Loved it. AviationDB revealed a few incidents, but I appreciated how up front Legacy Aviation was about disclosing them, encouraging me to check all the logs, etc. Seems to be very smooth, well maintained airplane. Looking forward to x-countries.

That's true. I guess the other scenario I could see would be losing alternator at high altitude on an electric-gear plane. Depending on how much faith you had in the backup gear system I could see it making sense to burn the juice and get the wheels down awhile before they're needed.

Some light aerobatic tailwheel toy. Beaver on floats. King Katmai or Sherpa. Epic E1000.

Bet he's good on the rudders.

If memory serves, the Cherokee 180 and Archer are both very close to 80kt, and those are basically identical airframes to a gear-down arrow. The gear would add drag, obviously, but I doubt your best glide would change by much. Also, what MAKG said. Why would you ever do this?

I'm looking forward to those tanks. A lot of my trips have been just barely within VFR range w/reserves in PA28s and C172s, and I always end up stopping about 2/3 of the way just to play it safe.