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Imagine not every flight will be single pilot. I suspect you’d see short haul becoming more so and long haul remaining fully crewed for the life time of most people here. What you might also see is something weird like two pilots but one is helping out in the back to save on one attendant or...

Get the nest one’s using your new pilot wages. I put in 3 combo non nest CO and smoke detectors during Covid and they have the 10 years battery backup with AC power and never had a problem. You just had bad luck or you are using it wrong. Did you get a 10 year battery only or 10 years backup...

We are putting a gfc500 into a Cherokee. I think after all the options we consider it was easier and cheapest actually to get panel and AP together from the same garmin dealer shop than anywhere else we found.

We build eVTOL by pouring billions into their development when same billion might build out some infrastructure like rail, subways etc that everyone can benefit from. It’s private vs public money yes, but interesting way humans assess value in real life.

You assume it’s for germs. Some of us have terrible allergies to pollen. Winter is awesome but summers I sometimes will put in the mask to reduce my reaction which meds don’t 100% alleviate. Currently I don’t wear it in the office. However, as wife is going in for cancer surgery and she has to...

Need to consider the fact that stuff which is just paper and data is a lot cheaper to sell than real physical objects matters a lot too. Selling a profitable unit will be stop gap, but many companies have done that in the past.

Also get tested for std. Couple of dates and you go without protection?

Try reminding FAA that if the AD causes more failure, they can get sued.

Piper commented, interesting read: https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FAA-2024-2142-0008

For me it’s also the drivers on the roads you might take that worries me. I have a new commute utilizing commuter trains. The stop is only about 5 km away. I thought about an ebike or scooter as way to go which bypass the traffic and also if I paddle give me a light workout. However, unless I...

And this wasn’t caught on prebuy? I fully understand from experience, having done my part of elbow grease on the tail fixing up, how many items come up after you buy. The exhaust cracking is like an obvious and must check item I think on a purchase though. What else might have been missed?

Yet you see people stopping multiple car lengths behind the car in front while slamming on brakes. Usually with baby on board stickers.

Man good luck with your investigation. We had a similar issue in our Cherokee. Ended up with half a new exhaust stack. The slip joints were done as we just needed new pipes. Before the fix we’d get 30-50ppm when nose is up or after landing if winds are right. Now we never hear the monitor goes...

You can start your own private club with a few like minded individuals. I fully believe in doing that unless you have unlimited time to spend on the plane. Things will break and a group of guys means others can devote some time on chasing down parts, organizing shop access, shuttling back from...

Another thing to consider is time as just noted above. Maintaining a plane takes a lot of effort. Going it alone either mean you have a lot of free time, or you can just throw money at the problem. For the latter than the question is why not just get a brand new plane. Based on the original...

It’s a completely mitigated if operated correctly. Otherwise all airliners can be crashed so by you’re logic just don’t do anything.

Well lets see: 1) It's single engine, piston and you know that engine is reliable but also always an open question. 2) No matter how many times you practice force landing, you know the real thing is going to be a lot more tense. 3) How many hours on the airframe? Where I was taking lessons some...

Sorry for your unfortunate experience. Btw it’s not just basic med that isn’t recognized here, sport pilot itself isn’t acccepted. https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/general-operating-flight-rules/flying-canada-what-you-need-know-tp-15048

It was never a issue of the annoyance of existing GA airframe existing cause of some unmovable law of physics. Most of the issues with GA is that we mostly can only afford old planes. So what’s the catch? For most people the price.

Back to topic. Coough. You always needs to expect costs when you take on an old but new to you plane. 30k and counting of getting up to snuff costs to the partners so far. Additional costs coming up soon to replace the bearings for the stabilator which we are told is better than the ones on the...