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The old rule of 100 hours/year before it makes sense to own is outdated. Buy an airplane. See if you like it. Hell, think about financing a portion since rates are still low for airplanes. Having an airplane is great, even if you only fly it 40 hours a year. There will be more headaches, but...

I can confirm that I aborted a takeoff at Osh this year and did not get a call. I actually had to tell the controller so he could cancel another takeoff clearance behind me. Maybe they knew I’d be a smartass if they called and asked why.

In my maturity, I will ask the group to debate the capitalization of the website.

Found out the other day that they used a picture of their bike in my airplane at Oshkosh for one of their ads. Totally forgot about the gentleman who came out of nowhere to ask if he could do that in 2019. Other than that I can only add that I bought a refurb Jupiter X5. Haven’t flown with it...

“Please include a pencil in the photo.”

P&C is actually getting a slight lift from rising interest rates (ie the rates are able to come down instead of constantly increasing like in the past few years). The aircraft market is challenging though, as there aren’t a ton of insurance companies competing for business. My premium went up...

It’s probably the same guy who told me once that you didn’t need an instrument rating for “local IFR.” He had doubt that as long as you didn’t leave the “local area” no IR was needed. That was the reason he never got his - he only flew IFR locally.

To add to what others are saying, aircraft transmit either data at either 978 or 1090 mhz. The FAA also sends out TIS-B data on 978 from ground stations. This is just a rebroadcast of the data they have in their system. If you aren’t within line of sight to the transmission, you won’t see...

$15,000 to get something airworthy, including “some engine work” sounds like a pre buy to run away from. I’m not even sure that avionics stack will fit in the panel, so count on some extra work making it fit in a newly cut panel. The low HP motor is also a red flag. Why spend a bunch of money on...

I used to do a bunch of work in El Dorado, AR and would sometimes take the subsidized C208 and sometimes fly myself. The first few times reserving with Enterprise and it being an absolute nightmare. They would forget to drop the car at the airport or forget to pick me up. Then not have my car. I...

Are EAB aircraft not allowed to operate under IFR? Or are you saying it’s not safe to fly an experimental in instrument conditions if the equipment was sold for experimental use only?

This part bothers me too.

Easiest way may be to trade it with BK for the updated one (if it doesn’t work when first inserted). I’m still annoyed they told me there was no way to use a regular computer to update the database and that I had to buy a new card my first time in Oshkosh. I think I have the second card...

Hey that outfit and logo is all over my logbooks. Did you work on my airplane?

No self respecting southerner…

I never add this up. Too busy making sure my wife doesn’t add it up.

Seems like if they want to use end caps, they should do them like the past grands or leave space so that no one is blocked in. Aren’t you glad you weren’t tail to tail like in the N40 though? I saw some where they actually put the horizontal stabilizer basically next to the wing of the other...

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I was going to say something snarky about this being part of the notam where it tells you what to do if you screw something up - go to the back of the line. But it’s probably just that someone didn’t read the notam and is trying to find the end of the line to cut it.

After the L-19 ground looped into and back out the other side of the ditch, a whole gaggle of other warbirds went around because of crosswinds - Skyraider, Corsair, Mustang. Those winds were not easy to deal with. Saw a bunch of airplanes on 36 get squirrely. Not sure what happened with the 310...