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I have the LyCon 160 HP upgrade and didn’t get any additional paperwork with it. There are great charts in the Lycoming operators manual for the O-320. Fuel flow is probably a bit more than stock O-320-E which I have. But they have charts for O-320-B and D** which are 160 HP so those are...

Seriously. Don’t go there, your head will explode with the insanity.

Something else occurred to me. Many people are under the mistaken impression that you can get around paying payroll taxes and treating people as employees if you pay an LLC or corporation for services rendered. You probably can get away with it until an employee complains, but there is an IRS...

That’s not very good advice. An LLC will not protect him from personal liability and in CA at least, it will cost an additional $825 in taxes each year. A sole proprietorship works fine for any bank.

The accountant may just be lazy. If you pay a corporation or an LLC you don’t have to fill out a 1099 at the end of the year. You do need to fill out one for individuals if you pay them more than $600.

After many years of not flying much, brother purchased a Piper Arrow and I flew with him while he got comfortable with it. He was really bad at landings; they were more like arrivals. He wasn't getting any better with my help so I hooked him up with an experienced CFI. On the Saturday of his...

I don’t know about titers, but I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine on the 16th and tested positive for antibodies when I donated platelets on the 28th. Type of COVID-19 Antibody Test Used by Vitalant: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Total...

Same here.

I hadn’t tried the help file, but it is blocked on Catalina and Big Sur. The flight plan displays as a PDF on Big Sur but not on Catalina. So I did some digging. I think that it is a problem on 1800wxbrief’s end. They need to add a line to their html file to allow pdf from their site to display...

Apple has added protections for autoplay videos, intrusive popups, and stealth recording using your microphone and camera. You need to turn some protections off for websites that you trust. Open the preferences in Safari and choose the Websites tab. Then turn off Content Blockers and Allow...

Many people are predicting M2 chips being announced at Apple’s developer conference in June with machines available in the Fall. An M1 iMac for mere mortals and an M2 for high-end users is a distinct possibility.

That’s why I was careful to say that I’m not comparing the M1 chip to what’s on the market now. I used to upgrade every year but since probably 2000 I don’t need to. I only upgrade when Xcode stops working and Apple stops upgrading the OS. My black MacBook Core Duo was purchased in 2006 and...

MacBook Air is $999 and while it doesn’t have a fan and only uses 7 cores, from what I’ve seen and read it’s blazingly fast for almost any use case.

I was curious how much faster so I did some tests this morning. (Keep in mind that my Mini is a late 2012 model, 2.3 GHz Quad Core i7 16GB RAM8). Xcode used to run fine on it but over the years they’ve added cruft so it is painful to use now. Opening takes less time than it takes to switch to a...

I’ve had my M1 Mini with 8 MB of RAM for a couple of months now; same chip as the MacBooks, and have only had two issues. The photo editor Acorn doesn’t work on images taken on my phone but Pixelmator Pro works fine. You can connect to your iPad and use it with a pencil to work on images. If you...

They used to have the allowed materials in the Knowledge Test Guides, but they are no longer available on the FAA website. This AC probably still applies. AC No: 60-11C Subject: TEST AIDS AND MATERIALS THAT MAY BE USED BY AIRMAN KNOWLEDGE TESTING APPLICANTS b. Manufacturer’s permanently...

There are literally dozens of FAA Regulatory Opinions and case law that say you are wrong.

You seem to be under the impression that everyone who owns an airplane is rich. I don’t have a cottage, don’t travel internationally, and can’t afford Uber Eats (not that I’d use it anyway). None those things you mentioned require GPS in a tablet anyway. FYI, GoSkyWatch works fine without GPS...

Other than ForeFlight I don’t have any apps on my iPad that would even use GPS. And there’s only been a couple of times when I wished that I had cellular on my iPad. My guess is that Apple knows this about their customers and figures they can get the extra $150 out of the people who need...

I am on my fourth iPad without GPS and I’ve never missed it. A cellular enabled iPad will not give you traffic and weather. Instead of spending another $150 on the cellular version pick up a Scout, Stratux, or Stratus and you get both traffic and weather. My Cherokee does not have ADSB-out and...