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It's a matter of opinion and the market. I always wondered about the price of Super Cubs, too. Grew up and learned to fly in Alaska. Always wanted a Cub but ended up owning Citabrias, a Scout, a Maule, a 185 and a few other types. It was always easier to find a "good deal" on airplanes other...

At least one fatality. West of Anchorage near mouth of the Susitna River. C206 and C175. The 206 went down in the river. The 175 made it back to Lake Hood strip in Anchorage and landed with one gear leg missing...

Yes. When departing and after returning. And I also put the app on her cell phone so she can track my location from my SPOT locator. For local flights and short cross countries, if she doesn't go, she will be one of my notification channels if something goes wrong.

I took my first lesson(and completed my ppl trainging) in a 7KCAB Citabria, also before the tailwheel endorsement was a thing. The one of the first things my instructor warned me about was the out-of-sight/out-of-mind mag and master switches. Great little airplanes. Do great loops and spins, too.

I hate to admit that this actually sounds pretty good to me. I fly coach a lot. :) I always thought that there should be a way to efficiently design space in a airline cabin to allow (low rent) passengers to be stretched out, instead of seated. I imagine the problem is that many people...

I fly airlines a lot and it seems that most people close the window shade as soon as they sit down (if it's even open). It amazes me that they would rather stare at TV shows on a 7" tablet than look outside. I must be getting old. :) The no window airplane makes sense; no doubt the virtual...

I owned a Super Viking for 5 years quite a while ago. Got my instrument, commercial, CFI and CFII in that airplane. Good instrument airplane. Flew it from the L48 to Alaska and back 3 times. As others have said, the control feel is excellent, the cabin is snug. I had an expensive issue about...

+1 for Aerospace Reports. Very quick and professional. IIRC, about $80 for my search on a recent aircraft purchase. They found a $15k lien on the aircraft. The seller used Aerospace to clear the lien; the debt had been paid but the lien was never released. It cost him $250 or so, I think...

There is nothing really wrong with it, I always like to negotiate for the best price I can, but it can become a waste of time. Having sold a couple of airplanes recently, you often get a LOT of calls and, for whatever reason, many of them are from people who are really hoping to find an...

How can you be certain of anyone's integrity? Especially someone whom you have never met and is selling his aircraft? With this criteria you would only buy from close friends or associates that meet your standards of behavior. Many aircraft brokers would be out of the running immediately :)...

After going through the buy and sell process many times, I agree with the comment that trading airplanes is often only marginally less painful than trading houses. The worst part for me is that I usually sell my (only) airplane before buying the replacement. And I don't like not having wings. :)

Not to speak for anyone else, but the most important property of a survival or self-defense weapon is that you have it when you need it. I learned to fly in Alaska and flew over 2000 hours there, for hire and for personal transportation. A lot of off-airport, remote destinations, on wheels and...

That's possible. I know that the invoice for the fee comes from the FBO, but they might pass the funds directly on to the county? That actually sounds like a pretty fair deal if you get 10 gallons of 100LL for $40. Or was the $40 a separate fee?

Makes you wonder how far the BS can escalate, doesn't it?

I think this is partially true. Looking at the KTEX ramp, you see a lot of Gulfstreams, Citations, Pilatus, etc., I would guess those are the folks the infrastructure is meant for. I haven't complained about fees when visiting there before, I was just trying to avoid 20 minutes of...

Thanks. I hadn't looked at that site before, just AirNav. I do wonder if what they say about the airport being completely self-funded is actually true. I would be surprised if they didn't receive funding from the FAA, the State of Colorado, etc., but I suppose it could be true. Another odd...

Telluride (KTEX) last Friday. My son was visiting and we flew up to KTEX just looking around. I had been there before a couple of times and had been charged a ramp fee, $25, I think. Quiet morning, no other aircraft on the CTAF/Unicom frequency. We landed and immediately began taxiing to the...

My twin brother and I bought a '69 7KCAB Citabria when we were 17, just after finishing high school. I took my first lesson in it. My brother had already been working with an instructor for a while in a 7AC Champ. We were still living at home with our parents, but we each had construction...

This is what I always did. Reduce to "climb" power after reaching a safe altitude. C185s, C206s, C310s, etc. Wide open throttle all the way to cruise altitude was against the way I was trained and is just counter-intuitive. Reduced power always made it much easier to manage CHTs, across the...

Yeah, more than a couple years in AK. Born and raised there, flying regularly since I was 17. Flew for a living up there for a while. New Mexico flying is different. My home base is at 6000msl, density altitude usually much higher, compared to 100msl and cool temps at my AK base. Whole lot...