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Professionally, yes. For myself, flight in itself is a goal, so my requirements so far as luxury is concerned are minimal. I know I am in the minority. But I also think that many who love antiques and a good part of the Part 103 crowd looks at the equation similarly. I'm not there because I...

Removing 13 pounds of radios and replacing them with seven pounds moves the CG a tenth of an inch. In the real world all sorts of minor differences are moot. This is more an "quasi-scientific" inquiry than anything. I get that legally once the aircraft has a legal reweigh that none of the...

An actual (I presume certified) weight was taken in 2006 and the W&B is based on same. Contrary to* "internet fact" the airplane gained 10 pounds of useful load at that weight (newer electronics and fire extinguishers are lighter than older ones) and it gained 23 pounds at a previous weighing...

The file was sent to me digitally, and either it didn't translate well, or I don't know how to properly import it... The last (2006) ACTUAL empty weight was 957 lb at +13.07 and the first few entries are estimates after backing out the +/-300 items on the equipment list. My best guess is that...

Obviously, I am really into the physics of how we become like birds for a (too) short time. This Equipment List and Weight and Balance were shared by a Tri-Champ owner (who interestingly bought his airplane to convert it to a 7EC, but then decided not to, he thus remains anonymous.) "The...

Does anyone have an opinion based on experience? Specifically on the 2EK/C72AE-0 or 2EL/C72AE-0, or more generally. I saw one on an O-200 powered Luscombe while celebrating the holiday in the traditional manner (getting lost while looking for Indiana). I looked at the brochure on line, and...

I'm new, the regs have been written piecemeal in response to pressure from real world issues, and they are not enforced evenly, and I'm not saying you are wrong, just trying to learn... If an owner can do preventive maintenance. Which regulations say she can. In fact 14.CFR.43, AC-20-105, and...

"Flight 209 now arriving, Gate 8... Gate 9... Gate 10... Pull on a lever. Push a button! Gate 13... Gate 14... Gate 15... Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Toto! It's a twister! It's a twister! Gate 23... 24... 25..."

A greater percent than will admit to knowing... you know, whatever you are talking about there... means.

Now I'm not saying you are wrong... But, quoting "AC-60-6B - Airplane Flight manuals (AFM), Approved Manual Materials, Markings, and Placards Airplanes. Date Issued: September 25, 1980... Airplane Flight Manual Regulations: Standardized in 1975, AFMs are now required in aircraft built and flown...

Mom still calls her refrigerator "the ice box." (And a local store by its name four corporate mergers ago.)

According to AC-60-6B aircraft built after 1979 must have an FAA approved AFM. (Prior to that time most manufacturers offered a POH, so if the OP's aircraft was built before the AFM mandate the POH serves as his or her AFM. The structural dishonesty of bureaucracies to assert that everything is...

The principal application of asphalt is in road surfacing, which may be done in a variety of ways. Light oil “dust layer” treatments may be built up by repetition to form a hard surface, or a granular aggregate may be added to an asphalt coat, or earth materials from the road surface itself may...

Acoustic concrete ramps and taxiways (uses styrofoam in place of aggregate), you know as part of a mandated noise mitigation plan. :)

That is a five minute major and game disqualification... So is a supposed seller who responds to my e-mail: "I'm interested in N12345. It looks nice. Can you tell me it's propeller model number, it's empty CG point, and the empty weight before and after including the items on the equipment...

Made in California by Interstate, some were made prewar, most went to the Army as primary trainers, and a few more were made postwar in Anchorage by Arctic Turn. There were (at least) three civilian flight trainers in the air over Oahu on Sunday December 7, 1941. Sgt. Henry C. Blackwell, and...

But... asphalt is only one ingredient of the tarmac that the ramp might be made of. :)

People who bake gigantic wedding cakes-- upside down ones no less-- then complain about others wandering in for a taste.

There used to be a Chalks, it flew between Miami's harbor and points in the Bahamas 1917-2006.

Helios aren't choppers... They are 4 or 6 PCL-SMs that can fly backwards in a stiff breeze.