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    Camshaft question

    Maintenance induced failure. Let’s all just buy new engines, oh wait, a guy had to assemble it, that could cause a failure. Jeez.
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    Should I set Track up or North up?

    And the earth is the center of the solar system and is also flat, like on the map.
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    Should I set Track up or North up?

    A Aren’t you special.
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    Cessna Citation crash-

    I bet if a C150 passed 50 feet over my head I would consider it huge.
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    The dreaded warm start

    Wow, so much useless advice without even knowing what engine, injected or carbed. So much for internet experts. For all you know he could be referring to his V-8 powered dildo.
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    How much total time is too much?

    Doesn’t Piper have a hard time on the wing? Many airplanes require at least a spar cap mod at x hours.
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    Camshaft question

    Oh you read mike bush BS about never changing a cylinder because it’s so dangerous.
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    Blue on my cowl flap?

    The fire sleeve would be stained.
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    Blue on my cowl flap?

    Liquids do strange things in flight. Try leak checking a fan jet when you can’t run them with the cowl open.
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    Used Parts

    May Wentworth rot in hell. Dawson too.
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    Used Parts

    Those vultures buy wrecks on the cheap and make out like bandits. I saw them in action in Little Rock after a tornado, I bought back my wrecked 182 for $10 more than Dawson offered for it. Engine had 400 TTSN, no damage and the same creep offered $1000 for it. He didn’t care for my reply. Sold...
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    Operating temp question

    Not true, even if you don’t know exactly the temp something is different. Hardly a go no go gauge.
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    Operating temp question

    Recognizing a trend is important. I would start recording the ambient and oil temps. This is what’s nice about the new gauges that record data, you can download and see trends easily.
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    Scary flight scenario - a tale of 2 pilots.....

    Have lots of time in my c Mooney, was on a cross country and after a fuel stop the gear wouldn’t stay up ( Johnson bar), I had forgotten to put on my seatbelt and the strap was enough to prevent the bar from latching in the up position. I got lazy, always use a checklist now. The problem is I...
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    Low Air pressure in tire

    Actually the correct thing to do is fill the tire the leave a note (at the airlines we wrote it on the tire if the loss was within acceptable tolerance) of the pressure after filling, date and time.
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    Carb heat broken, ok to fly?

    You should find another instructor that isn’t a dangerous idiot. A friend of mine almost died doing t&gs on a 95 degree day because of carb ice.
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    Richard Russell

    I was speaking of the German fellow. See, you already forgot that one and it happened less than two years ago. I wouldn’t ever speak lightly of the AA tragedy, I knew people on the one that hit the WTC.
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    Richard Russell

    Apparently you are, you posted your worries.
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    Cessna Lands on Highway, Alameda

    Oh no! Fake news! Try not to be so ignorant.
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    Richard Russell

    It’s already old news will soon be forgotten, what repercussions you fearing? I doubt anything will come of it besides perhaps deeper background checks. There have been a few pilots that have gone nuts and taken people with them, what happened? Nothing. Stop living in fear.
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