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There are definitely are examples of airports, becoming much less community friendly. Our airport in Ogden UT, used to have three restaurants on site, a playground for kids. Used to see people hanging out around the hangers, grilling, talking planes, kids riding bikes around the non-movement...

I felt like the Vmc demo taught me a lot about flying, even flying singles. Did mine in a turbocharged twin at altitude, which obviously takes a little more care. But the lesson learned in asymetric thrust, AoA and power management is stick and rudder skills that translates to most flying. If...

Repeat the test. Maybe even with a different lab. That is a very high number that needs to be explained. Does she have symptoms? BNP is often elevated with left sided heart problems, but can be elevated also with right sided heart problems, especially in the context of COPD and a myriad of...

Pretty good news for GA. The major players are selling everything they can make with long waiting lists. Take a year or more to get most new planes right now. Used market is benefiting from that as well.

For the health of GA, we might need a little slowdown. If you want to buy a new Piper, Diamond, Cirrus, maybe even Cessna, you are going to be waiting a year or more.mIf you want a hangar in most places, likely going to be waiting years. If you have a good plane, you are sitting on a little...

@AlphaMike: Interesting that your pitot tube had ice on it. Was it working? Looking at that picture, you were close to something bad happening, just no way of knowing how close. That is a lot of mixed ice, and the effect of ice is never the same 2 times on an airframe. Good call on getting...

Pretty darn sure that they were in IMC. Tough read.

Just guessing but sounds like an emergency landing with an over-run. That prop looks stopped to me. Seems like if that big motor was running would have annihilated that composite prop. The PA46 glides really well, and the pressurized cabin which literally holds tons of pressure, is so strong...

I wouldn't worry too much about mounjaro not being approved. In the real world there is not that much difference in efficacy. Ozempic (Wegocy/semaglutide) is very effective at weight loss. If you have access and it passes the FAA sniff test would be happy with that. It is cheaper, seems easier...

I had a range rover sport with 520 HP and the V8 growl and thlrow you back in your seat acceleration while driving a car as smooth and quiet as a cadillac is a nice experience. Won’t get that in many SUVs that have legit offroad capability, with decent tires. Drive a defender 110 as my daily...

:p:p Sometimes people ask me how much "gas" does it take to go from A to B. I give them an honest answer, and they usually say not bad, in line with airline travel. I don't usually tell them that the cheapest thing about a new turbine is the fuel burn. ;-) The M600 does come with 5 years free...

For any engineering geeks, the M600 is a very strong airframe. In order to get the 250 KIAS 0.55 Mach Vmo/Mmo, they had to modify the airframe quite a bit from its Meridian heritage. The wing is quite obvious, with 3 machined spars from solid billets of aluminum, but you don't see these lines...

The range payload combination on the M600 is exceptional. Full fuel you can carry about 550 in the cabin, but full fuel is over 7 hours of fuel, and if you pull the power back a little around 1650 nm of range. But you very rarely need full fuel. As mentioned above 1000 lb in the cabin leaves...

If your volts stay 28, it is not your alternator. Could be an indicator issue, a big amp draw somewhere, although can’t think of anything outside of a short that could pull that many amps in a Cessna. Or some issue with how the devices pull off the battery versus the alternator. The answer may...

I would say just from the limited information, if most (all) of the mentioned flights end in a diversion that suggests poor flight planning for whatever reason. Occasional diverts no problem, but this is not normal. On comments of dehydrating to make longer flights… Bad things happen when you...

Dang man, get to the gym. Unless the gal was very very “healthy” a normal dude should be able to bench press her back up to level flight. Especially when staring at blue sky and heaven at the same time. Was the CFI the woman?

Legal as long as you provide adequate signage.

That is a sexy plane. But the little ones?? A virus, A sinus.What will the next one be? A rectum? They could use a marketing department ;-)

The best way to appreciate an HOA is to move to a place without an HOA and have un neighborly, cluttered, messy, or inconsiderate neighbors. Just moved to an area without an HOA and missing those HOA fees.

Yeah, I have always thought that’s funny. But there’s been a placard in every Piper that I have flown saying acrobatics. Maybe they’re referring to the pilot? Certainly if the pilot is doing acrobatics during flight somethings not quite right. ;-)