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All good points. But one has to wonder what kind of investigation of the suspicious behavior took place while aloft in this recent case. Let’s say someone observes another individual with a device like this, which they don’t recognize, but suspect to be a bomb. They report it to the crew, and...

I learned to fly in a Beech Skipper, which had similar useful load constraints. If I remember right, the DPE simply asked if we’d done a weight and balance check. Which was done, with the right seat occupied at 175#. Never mind the fact that was probably 50 under his actual. Not the best...

What a sweet ride. You’re going to love it. Just keep it within the envelope - Bonanzas are slick, and they speed up quickly when going down hill. If your approach speed is under control, you will find that it’s almost impossible to do a bad landing. I always look forward to the landing, even...

A lot of really good advice in this thread. For me, it was fly the XC to the first checkpoint or so, and then he provided a diversion scenario. Much like others have described. I flew at a Class D, so I picked up Flight Following with Ground, and kept it through the XC, maneuvers, off airport...

Flying a 182 at night several years ago, I noticed a green flash under my left wing, and instinctively looked to see what was going on. The beam then spent some time scattering all over, and inside, the plane as they tried to track me. Of course by then I was doing my best to avoid looking at...

Oooh, I’ve had one of those USB plugs fail on me with smoke. Took a minute to figure out where the smoke was coming from. When I pulled the plug, it was so hot it burnt my hand. Watch those things.

Don’t ask me how I know, but I’m aware that a swish of listerine mouthwash just prior to blowing a breathalyzer will send that thing off scale.

Does the addition of VGs have any effect on maneuvering speed?

I remember reading about a Ford Tri-motor that I think was out by the Bahamas, or in the Caribbean. They had to shut down one of the motors on one of the sides. Sometime later, the motor on the opposite side developed a low oil level situation. So one of the crew climbs out the strut and drains...

I had that happen to me on my first solo cross country as a student pilot, so many years ago. What a ride. Probably the highest airspeed I ever saw in the Skipper. Maybe 105?

Be ready and willing to accept changes. A long flight like this will be great fun, but can tend to result in get-there-itis, setting in. Accept the fact that circumstances may arise where the best choice is to find a place to land, soon, and existing destination hotel, car, event reservations be...

That’s my issue too: bumps. As much as I love to fly fast (who doesn’t), and always want to recover the speed given up in the climb, it just seems more likely that I’ll end up having to maintain Va due to bumpy conditions.

I have heard of several cases of speed gains after painting an airplane, with these gains being attributed to correcting mis-rigging while re-hanging the control surfaces. Something like up to 10-12 knots, roughly. So, not unheard of. The step is probably good for about 1-2 knots.

You’ll be fine flying with a non-cellular iPad if you have a separate GPS receiver it can link to. However, the GPS backup is nice to have, as well as cellular data in the event you find yourself somewhere without a WiFi password or a slow connection.

I use flight following more often than not. For cross country flight it’s practically 100% flight following for me. Also, heading into the practice area for some maneuvers - it’s hard to think of a more appropriate time than that for FF, this is when that second set of eyes becomes extremely...

I’m guilty of not listening too carefully to the video, but what I heard getting the most emphasis was minimum “sink.” I really didn’t hear much about airspeed. If I missed that, my bad. But if by sink he’s referring to minimum fpm on the VSI, then he’s sadly mistaken. If you try to minimize...

I missed that. But I got bored while he was talking about the oil cooler, so I started looking around at what else was on the table. Saw a bag of some kind of Hilman grommets. Typical Lowe’s/hardware store basic quality stuff. I have no idea what he intends for them. But, Hilman on an airplane...

Altimeter for Aviators. Wouldn’t use it as a flight instrument, but interesting to mess around with.

When I first got my PPL I bought a set of Avcomm passives. They were great for the price, a good headset bag was included, and they lasted much longer than anticipated. However, after having them on for two or three hours or so, it was like being in a vise. Never could really get a good...

Sshh- don’t let the FAA hear that!