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My friend has run into a financial emergency and really needs to sell his airplane. It is a 1965 Piper Cherokee 140. This a/c was purchased some years ago by an A&P/IA that restored it. It was in a hangar all that time. Then a few years back my friend acquired the a/c in some kind of business...

R.I.P.

Yes, that is definitely Miami. Miami has lot of good points but not being a bit of a banana republic is not one of them. Years ago and well before I picked up my aviation again, my ex-wife was the office manager for a fellow that ran an FAA repair station and both him and his dad (running a...

I don't know but maybe my first solo in a 150 has you beat ...

Oy, flying the PAPI down.

Hmm, I might be thinking of electron beam welding because I remember it was done in high vacuum.

I used to be the the weld inspector at Pratt & Whitney's government research lab in West Palm Beach and I certainly saw lots of different types of exotic welding. Including laser welding but that was a long time ago. They also used to do plasma flame spray and that was pretty cool.

It IS the only way to be sure.

Yes, skidding to keep the turn flat. He says that his modified wing makes it possible and he would not try it with a stock Cessna wing

Title of the thread says that you want to do your primary training in the tailwheel airplane but the body of your post says you want to obtain your endorsement after completing primary training. So which is it? If you wait till after, you're going to find a lot more options and a lot more...

https://www.faaflightschools.com/tail-wheel/

Best option would be to hire @Htaylor or another CFI to go out to Idaho with you and give you your complex out there and on the ride back.

The amount of force required to start the tipping is easy to calculate and will vary based on the moment arm. A complication is added in that a round bucket will have a tendency to rotate once it begins to tip if the force is applied as a point load. The maximum amount of force will be at the...

The flight school will have surely have a detailed AD compliance report as part of the aircraft maintenance docs.

I would imagine that the majority of flight schools in an urban area like that can do your complex endorsement.

Only if you have complied with any AD's relevant to that blender. Otherwise you'll have to make your Margarita on the ground.

I don't think that would be a good idea. I inadvertently did that in Arkansas earlier this year and when the owner went to the fsdo to get the permit, we discovered that there was an issue with the airworthiness certificate. Luckily it didn't bite me.

10 day free trial from AD toolbox. Though to be honest, I compared the results there against what I could get for free from the FAA website against what was prepared the prior-year from an expensive AD suite and there's no significant difference. https://www.airworthinessdirectives.com/ You...

@LongRoadBob you might be overthinking it a bit. It's not about the inertia in the ball. Forget about that. The ball is telling you the same thing the seat of your pants would be telling you. The position of the ball in the tube is a function of the angle of bank and the nature i.e. speed /...

Left pic, tail outside = skid. Also left turn with right ball = too much left rudder = skid. edit: also, the ball is "skidding" to the outside of the turn.