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This was absolutely my MO for dark blue on the bottom. Dark top cowling was to reduce glare.

Not a 400 owner, but a 182Q owner with MGTOW 150 lbs higher than max landing weight (75 gal useable, which is 5.5-6 hours of flight time in a long-range cruise). If you need to take off at max weight, just know you'll need to fly for a couple hours to get below max landing weight. Depending on...

It's pretty shocking that CA is giving up that free money. I wonder how that got missed.

The flow chart isn't "wrong", but it does not clarify the applicability section of the AD. In fact, the flow chart says at the bottom that if the flow chart isn't clear about something, then the language in the AD governs, not the flow chart. Based upon that, my read on it is nothing has changed...

We have 4-point BAS harnesses. The risk of "submarining" if you are wearing the lap belt portion low and tight - as you should - is very low.

Wonder if Mojave (MHV) might be a viable option. Would require a bit of coordination with Edwards, but there is a lot of open space north of the field, and nothing off the ends of the main runway.

He reportedly took the cash option, so after taxes he nets about $550M or so. Buying a house on a California hillside is definitely not what I'd do, but hell, I'd likely be blowing the same amount on airplanes, luxury hangars and boats if I was in his place, so I'm not throwing stones. CA...

Also, the best time to do the Tower is first thing in the morning on a weekday. Get your ticket ahead of time and line at least 30 minutes early.

This does not, in anyway, impact instructors when the flight training is not originating from our airport. It says that clearly in the first sentence.

As a public-funds receiving airport: 1) There is nothing, nada, they can do about transient instruction, other than barring flight instruction from happening within the physical building owned or leased by the FBO. 2) Reasonable business licensing and insurance requirements are permitted...

what screw?

All thumbs and none are opposable.

This is absolutely a problem, exacerbated by large class sizes where the teacher doesn't have time to provide an alternative assignment to the 20% of the class that is way head of the other 80%. Under our current standardized testing performance requirements teachers are often stuck spending...

All of this, times a million. Being heavily involved in Scouts for almost 10 years now, I've witnessed hundreds of kids growing up. I get to see their growth in a way many teachers never do, because they often don't see more than a few years with a single kid. There are *vast* differences in the...

That wasn't a cure, it was at best a temporary treatment. I usually managed to get myself in trouble again in short order.

Sounds like something that can be addressed by assessing performance and achievement during, say, a long written examination, 60+ hours of flight training and hours of ground instruction over several months, followed by a strenuous oral examination and flight test given by an unfamiliar...

The answer to that is highly dependent on what you consider a terrorist attack.

It incorporates by reference, but not *in the applicability statement*. That is where the FAA screwed up. Are the FAA police going to hunt you down and throw you in FAA-jail for making the determination yourself before flying, without a "sign off"? No, they don't have the time, resources or...

Yes, our IA maintains that log. Why? Because he has ready access to more information that we do. Are there some ADs we can comply with without him? Yes, the oil change filter adapter AD for our plane specifically allows for visual inspection by the person otherwise authorized to do the oil...