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Maybe not technically aerobatic, but I watched them all week. At times they would get to buzzing around the field real quick and some of the things they do over there is very close to wingovers and steep turns in that tiny area with others around.

Except that’s right over the new vintage aircraft parking area on the west side of the road. That new parking area is not depicted. That’s where the incident happened. I was in that area when it happened. Rotor blades departed and flew over my head with the helicopter landing a few yards from...

The ULs are the only ones EAA allows to fly over campers. If you watch them, you’ll slowly start to get more and more terrified until you, like me yesterday an hour before the incident, tell someone that the UL field traffic is going to result in an accident. We’re lucky the gated area had...

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Hilton bar?

Late to the party here, but I can’t say enough good things about the FBO at MSN. I stop there every year. Fuel is reasonable, people are nice, and they have reasonable after hours/weekend/emergency maintenance rates. If you can grab a hotel near the Capitol building, that is a nice area with...

The retracts are definitely the best 182s. 150+ ktas and a lycoming.

How is this different from renting? Did you have any right to appreciation?

A use tax is paid by the buyer directly to the taxing authority. A sales tax is collected by the seller and remitted on the buyer’s behalf.

I’m an accountant. I know better than to add it all up. I’m just here to help everyone justify bigger/faster/more expensive airplanes.

We’re talking about different airplanes, not more gas being thrown at the same airplane. Physics allows different airplanes to be more or less efficient based on a number of factors. I think you’re missing my point though. Artificially capping at 20 gph doesn’t necessarily give you the best...

Allow me to mansplain the math: 200 nm for 24 gallons of gas is 8.3 nm/gallon 150 nm for 20 gallons is 7.5 nm/gallon If your destination is 450 nm away, that’s 3 hours at 150 kts or 2.25 hours at 200 knots (ignoring climb and descent). That’s 60 gallons for the slower airplane and 54 gallons...

Someone gets it! Turbine probably pays for itself!

But if it gets you somewhere at 200 knots instead of 150, the gas bill could be similar.

I’m laughing because this is the situation in my house too, just on the other side of the metroplex. My wife has gotten to the point she tolerates the weeks leading up to it with the stuff that begins accumulating in our game room, and even the purchases justified by “it’ll be good for Oshkosh.”...

Sounds odd, but WFAA is trying to imply that the 250 mile round trip cost $2000 in maintenance. I’m sure that was just an annual that happened in the same month.

After Wayfair the threshold for nexus is so low that a lot of the companies not collecting sales tax are probably in the wrong. States have started getting pretty aggressive on this issue. If the resident didn’t pay the use tax, they go after the resident while they fight with the seller for not...

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Very sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing this.

My apologies if I came across rude. The Dixie Wing's P-63A is also a part of history, and it's neat that you were able to see it at a tiny airport years ago.