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my understanding is the PA46 is very easy to overspeed and overstress the wings. They cruise well above Va and are very slick and hard to slow down so if you accidentally wandered into towering cumulus with some significant up/down drafts I can see how it would be easy to get fast and break the...

Don’t forget the Merlyn waste gate controller add on. Touted as “automatic” it actually uses oil pressure and an aneroid to keep upper deck air pressure around 2” higher than selected MAP. Improves on the fixed wastegate designs for Mooney, Arrow, and Senecas. Allows higher critical altitude or...

Would part of the sale include satisfying outstanding debt? Cause I can think add that number to the 16M and it looks more reasonable. Otherwise, as you said this may be a fire sale of assets only.

I fixed a plastic arm rest by using fiberglass weave cloth on the backside and West systems G flex resin which is a more flexible resin designed for plastic structures. Works well and provides more strength for the plastic part than original while retaining flexibility.

Need to clarify Bose A20 vs A30- I've heard significant complaints about the "updated" Bose vs the old A20s (which I own and love). My wife has Zulu 3 and I have A20. I don't notice a huge difference in ANR between the two. Her head just fits the Zulu better and mine fits the A20 better.

In our EMR, inactivating the diagnosis doesn't permanently remove it from your record. That is a whole lot more work, and most physicians don't or won't take the time to go through the steps. I see patients with a 100 or so Dx from a recent admission- some are real, most were just tacked on by...

This discussion brings up the question of is there any advantage of filing prior to startup/pre-flight? (Planning yes, I'm talking about pushing the actual filing button) Seems waiting until I'm ready to engine start or during pre-flight gives best estimate for time of departure. Maybe file...

I think it was just a cool "hey- we already get this info from our Sentry users; what can we do with it?" But may serve as additional reason to buy a Sentry if one is on the fence. I used that info the other day to decide not to go shoot practice approaches- was clear but lots of moderate and...

I think one issue with this is what happens after you sell the plane? Lets say you have a limited A&P type certificate and you replace/repair a control cable. Then you sell the plane. The next owner is now saddled with potentially "sub-par" work (or at least work not performed by a fully...

Until seeing this today, I would totally have blundered back up to the whole short line without asking. Makes sense, looking at it from above. Is this run up area charted somewhere on the airport directory? Or are you supposed to just recognize it.

Depends on the plane. In my Seneca FIKI requires the hot plate be installed. However it is easily removable with a couple of screws for storage during warm weather seasons. I prefer flying without it as where it is placed causes a parallax as one eye is looking through it and one eye is looking...

The only reason I can think of ( and this is not a very good reason ) is if there were some known “sketchy “maintenance issues that would be unearthed with the FSDO investigating

I have to ask, how in the world does failing to declare an emergency end up in an enforcement action?

I guess I was suggesting this as a current IFR pilot, not as a VFR pilot looking to "game the system" or substitute for a SAR VFR plan. My suggestion was merely as a shortcut for ATC to have everything they need on you without reciting the VFR callup FF litergy.

You can kind of do this. File IFR but on initial call up tell them you’re gonna be a v tag or vfr. They already have all of your information in their strip and just have to update you with a vfr altitude as I understand it.

Good point I didn’t realize. Thank you.

I tried that once at our not so busy airport just outside of a not so busy Charlie. Their response was something along the lines of there is nobody around, why are you wasting our time with 2 phone calls. Just call us for the clearance when you're at the hold short line #1 for departure.

I still argue that if I can go to my local Hertz and rent a 15 passenger van, load it with my kids hockey team and drive 70mph across the country within 2ft of opposite direction traffic, I should be allowed to fly my under 6000# (now under 12,000#) 7 person airplane without having to undergo an...

I was thinking in the Aspen setup menu there are adjustments for panel roll and tilt. When these are adjusted you see the actual output for the planes attitude above. If you have measure the exact attitude along the pilot side rivets per the leveling points with a digital gauge then adjusting...

Can you not measure panel tilt/roll without leveling so that it indicates true tilt as measured on the spar and leveling rivets on the pilots side, and then adjust the Aspen panel tilt setting in the PFD setup and then re-do the RSM calibration for that?