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Florida used to have a gift tax a long time ago, but it was repealed sometime in the mid-aughts. There is no value-based taxation or registration fee on personal property in Florida, only real estate. Sales/use tax is a one-time deal, and based on actual transaction price only. A weird quirk...

First, I realize this is a question for a tax attorney if the rubber were really going to hit the runway on something like this. I'm not looking for legal advice. I just thought this might be a fun exercise to post up here to see if anyone else has ever thought of (or tried) this, or heard of...

Thanks, yeah I never believed in the thing about "those who have, and those who will" with retract pilots. I do now obviously lol, being a newly minted member of the former. It hadn't sunk in before that some gear-ups are legit mechanical failures and not just pilot error. All paperwork for me...

Resurrecting this thread to +1 this comment and add my data point. Unfortunately, I had to land with my nose gear retracted a couple nights ago. The mains extended normally, but the nose gear was jammed and all troubleshooting failed. I declared and proceeded to my home base, which happens to be...

The ASN narrative was updated. Dan Gryder did the updating on 12/11. I am definitely not a fan of his, but his facts are usually accurate. Someone else also updated the ASN report to reflect the CFI as [possibly] still alive. CFIs around my local hangar that keep up with the Tampa Bay Pilots...

It's probably not so much "right or wrong" as opposed to just one of those individual risk tolerance things. As is the case for most of us, I did seemingly countless touch-and-goes in my primary training and didn't think twice about it. It became more of a thing for me when I decided to pursue...

I was overflying the area around the time of the mishap. There was **a lot** of parachute jumping activity being announced for KZPH when I was on with Tampa Approach. Not to play Monday Morning QB, but I'm not so sure how great of an idea it was to take a student to an airport with a bunch of...

This. It takes a high degree of fortitude to simply accept a loss that strikes close to home. It makes us face our own mortality. It forces us to acknowledge that we all have a lack of agency in the face of Lady Luck. We lost two good ones on Sunday. These two great pilots simply pulled the...

I respectfully disagree, on multiple counts. 1. A lot of the wrenching people do on cars most certainly does have the same criticality as aircraft maintenance. Mess up your brake lines and you might be dead. Mess up your wheel hub, or even just your lug nuts, and you might be dead. Pretty...

There are some professions where that is true. Mine, for example. If you have a serious illness, you need me way more than I need you. And when I say need, I mean it in the most existential way possible. But - I would be out of business if it weren't for my patients. It's a symbiotic...

I tend to agree with you. $195 for a piece of plastic flimsier than a 2 L soda bottle is highway robbery. This one may be getting rebuilt with "owner-supplied parts" (a cutout from a water bottle of appropriate diameter + some glue +/- a couple zip ties).

You were 100% correct, it is just the mount. I did not realize the mount was an entire case around the compass and thought the compass body itself had cracked. Thank you! Spot on with the part, thanks!

That is correct. No idea how the prop didn't get it, but there is absolutely zero evidence it hit the prop. Good point. I see what you are saying after looking at that picture again. I will recheck the compass/mount later today and see if that is the case. That would certainly simplify the repair.

This blog post from 2021 has more than you ever wanted to know about light sports and TBO.

For those who want the details, they are below. The TL;DR is: I need to replace my compass. Does this fall under pilot-performed maintenance like basic R&R of other instruments, or does this one need an A&P or even a specialist avionics shop? I am unsure due to the fact compasses are calibrated...

I am going to play a little devil's advocate here. This *could* be the plane for you, if you get a price you feel is fair and it sails through a reputable pre-buy. OTOH, it could be an awful option. IMO, there just isn't enough information to make a recommendation. What is the mission? You...

Agree, increase in inventory (i.e. supply) *can be* a leading indicator for price trends, being 50% of that whole Econ 101 supply/demand thing. The thing is, what is happening with demand? That is harder to deduce in real-time. Also, with such small numbers of total inventory of any one...

This. A couple of weeks ago, I went out there to do an in-person evaluation of what was going on. Jaws in the shop hit the floor when I walked in - they definitely did not expect to see me. Miraculously, the plane would now magically be ready the next day, so I called a local CFI who I had been...

Yes I think I stumbled on his post while I was researching other posts about what people stuck in similarly unfortunate situations have done. I saw another about a gentleman who bought a terminally corroded Cherokee as well. Awful situations, and my heart goes out to those folks. My plane is...

To answer some of the above questions: The aircraft was completed in 2013, has ~300 hours on it, ~40 hours since IRAN (case crack was discovered by the previous owner's A&P so the PO IRAN'ed it), and the PO purchased from the original builder in 2018. The PO's stated reason for selling was that...