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Lucky you! $100 is a smoking deal. Down here in the greedy a**hole airplane-hating liberal capital of the world, you gotta pay $450-$700 for a hangar and often it isn't even a private T-hangar. I was #5 on the list for a T-hangar 2 years ago. Then some other greedy a-hole came in, bought all...

Gonna order my xpdr, install it with my mechanic and enjoy the $500. It pays to wait for the good stuff. Now cue in all the nay-sayers who will claim that we are milking the system ... :)

I was born. That's how it started. *shrug* Ever since I can remember, I would be making fighter jet noises and claim I was doing a negative 4G pushover inverted with a Mig-28. So it seems that we aren't that far apart. I have always thought that every man (at least every real man) was born to...

Get the pulled-pork sandwhich at the gas station, that was the best PP sandwhich of my life, no exaggeration. When the girl asked where we flew in from and I told her "TX", she flipped out. :)

Did you file an ASRS report? You better tattle on yourself quick!

Great, glad she had fun (and I assume you too)! Soooo .... how did you file it? "RR" in the remarks?

I love the tarp that is covering the empty space. (not sure what for anyway) :D

If wonder if the Ray Charles glasses were a factor. Had you not been wearing a view-blocking device, would you have seen the impending collision? ;)

NOT the only one, trust me. If I had a dime for every wrong FAA question/answer I find, I'd be a 50cent-aire. :) Don't sweat it. If you know the right answer, that's great. Now find out which one the FAA wants you to choose and click that on your "written/clicken" test. Good luck.

Do I read it right that you're in Colorado? You could fly south (SE or SW, your pick) for a few hours and get into some warm wet stuff. We don't get much icing down here in the winter unless it is really really cold. Hope you can catch a nice "juicy" weekend somewhere in the warm south.

So you admit that you're a bigger bore than a stroke? *yawn*

A) You didn't land in Austin. Is that KTKI? B) You planned on going to Austin and failed to tell us? C) Great recovery, awesome troubleshooting skiils, glad you're here to tell your story. Hopefully someone will learn from it too!

Ah, a Cardinal. No wonder the landing gear failed to retract! :D (hey, if I fly 'em, I can bash 'em ;) )

That's what I thought. I'd have said "step 1: go out and buy a KX155 that has a working display". :)

Eye eye, cap'n!

Wait, what? They moved the TX STOL Roundup? And they're charging pilots to come spectate and cheer on their fellow pilots? :( I understand that once an event exceeds certain size, it quickly turns from a friendly competition to a commercial endeavor. Now everybody gets their greed on, city...

There's your problem! :D

Short answer: Yes, worth it. Medium answer: I'd tend to agree with the majority here that a motion sim isn't gonna help much for shooting approaches in IMC (unless you like getting tossed around on purpose) to stay proficient. An answer that many will shoot down instantly: if proficiency is...

Saw that too, nice quick retro shot. Not sure how it's done in the video editing SW but it was spot on! :)

Banjo, your result is not surprising. I too had a vac pump fail in under the warranty hour limit but past the year limit. The reason is in the cheap Chinese plastic used for the vanes or coupler. Plastic gets brittle over time. It explains why the warranty on vac pumps is usually in the range of...