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Going to be highly dependent on the tires. The best out there for all purpose, road, heavy off road and snow and ice are the Goodyear Duratracks. Good year hit a home run with this one. They wear out after 25-30,000 miles, but that is because of the soft rubber that makes them great off road...

I think people with more money than brains affects all socioeconomic factions.

To reliably do that mission, particularly the northern latitudes, you need preferably pressurization, flight level capability and FIKI. The bottom end of that is going to be a Malibu type aircraft, and that is not a beginner plane.. Turbo FIKI Cirrus or FIKI Mooney if you don’t mind an O2 mask...

Good luck with all that. I am impressed with your cardiologist btw. Don’t think many know about the association with preeclampsia and diastolic dysfunction, and even fewer diagnosis diastolic dysfunction by EKG. Typically is an echocardiogram diagnosis. That is “graduate” level stuff. Just...

Depends on the size of the adults and how far you are going. Useful load is around 1250 lbs. I have had 6 onboard on short flights. My young family of 5 and a nanny on longer flights. My wife got to pick the nanny, but I set the limit on Nanny weight ;-)

A new M350 usually comes with a pretty good spinner to tail warranty, and they used to have the fly 3 years for free with fuel, maintenance and training included. Not sure if they still have the program. The plane does book numbers, and above 18,000 feet is a 200+ knot aircraft. If you pull...

The icing up there doesn’t bother me as much as the exposure of a piston engine. Airports are far apart, and off field landing sites not great. Water may well be the best option many times, ditching with a survival suit. But the very cold air can only hold so much ice. FIKI TKS works well, but...

So much of it is dictated by mission. But mission is also dictated by the plane you have access to. As you move up the food chain, speed and capability in a plane, it is common for the mission to change. Something I have heard called mission creep. Another factor in mission creep is that...

Going to need to be up around 14,000 feet to do that safely. Been planes lost going up that canyon including most of the Wichita state football team in a DC6. Downdrafts on that canyon could very easily exceed the minimal minimal climb performance of the DA40 at that altitude. So.... I...

The eAPIS email states you must call and receive permission to land. We had a 24 ship trip in the Caribbean last week. Several of the CBP offices were not answering the phone. The after hours phone said call during business hours and the 24 hour phone was not answered. We all left multiple...

Was that the 2005 Cirrus accident? If so, there were no FIKI Cirri in 2005. FIKI In cirrus was first introduced in 2009. I think it may have had a no-hazard deice system, which is not a certified system and not legal to fly in icing conditions.

I started flying in 2006, thought I would just be doing hamburger runs, in rental planes got the bug big time, and picked up most of the ratings, and have flown up to twin jets. Live in a SETP at the moment. Keep up the dream, but flying to a ski destination in your own plane safely and...

Cool plane. They were flying those out of my home drome for a while. Tough economic times, and the composites were just too heavy to make it work. But cool design.

Friends don’t let friends fly commercial ;-). About driving? I don’t enjoy it. So my break point is somewhere between 50-100 mi. Don’t like the airline experience so will fly myself any time as long as the plane is available. Justifying cost…. That is where you have to be good at vulcan mind...

Scott’s answer is obviously the right one. I was going to say that the tops of Denali, K2 and Everest are covered in snow. But like Scott says it depends. Weather forecasts and pireps can give an idea of cloud tops. But not uncommon to see cloud tops up in the twenties and thirties on snow days...

I think the beauty of doing the commercial is being a better pilot, particularly in the plane that you are flying. I do commercial maneuvers in my 600HP, M600, and when appropriate just pull the power back. As far as abuse, there is no reason to abuse the plane in commercial maneuvers. If you...

The Malibu flies like and glides better than a DA40. I have plenty of time in both. No bad habits to the airframe. Most accidents involve not balancing the 3 legged stool of making sure the pilot, the plane and the mission are on the same page. They are the most capable piston singles flying...

If automobile engines were powerful enough and reliable enough to work in planes the OEM’s would have switched long ago. But they aren’t. You run a car engine like a plane engine at high power, low altitude, high altitude, outside air temp changing 30-40 degrees every flight, and they will...

My track record in planes is better than my track record in cars. Around 700,000 nm in aircraft, never having to push or get pulled. Been several in cars. Of course the car engine failures don’t end up in the news paper. I fly mostly new airplanes, and fly mostly new cars, so pretty much apples...

We are in a much better situation in GA if the community is welcome at the airport. Much easier to preserve an airport when the community thinks of the airport as “their” airport. When an airport becomes “those” peoples airport, with a bunch of richguys, behind that fence, flying their fancy...