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Michigan rocks. Awesome food, great wines and beer, many airports...and the views of dunes, lakes and islands from my PA 32 on one of the many sunny days are addictive. As soon as I land in Ann Arbor..I want to take off again. Even on rainy days its usually isolated cells..and easy to get...

If you will be in Ypsilanti get a place at KARB. I am in a club there. Great airport... hangars are east west facing and they do a good job keeping asphalt snow free. There are mechanics there. Solo Aviation is who we use but many also fly to KDUH toledo for a great group of mechanics. KARB...

Gocha! Thanks for sharing what you can. Hopefully the ring owner will release is at some point to public. Pilots also benefit from this information.

Would you mind sharing how you saw it? It would be informative to see.

YOU MADE IT HOME!!! Thank you for sharing your IFR ADM. I am training for my IFR rating and have about 30 hours doing so. My CFI, who has 1000s of hours and freq flies IFR, would not fly in that, and always tells me to add a few 100 feet of safety margin to the published minimums(for my...

Any updates on this crash/investigation?

I hope he is not the norm but rather the rare unfortunate aberrance. That is I hope there are not many pilots out there willing to risk their lives, the lives of those on the plane and on the ground, other planes, by flying under IFR without a license. Of course a license does not make one...

Here is the news feed with the brother indicating that the pilot was training for instrument rating. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/01/05/brother-of-businessman-killed-in-lyon-township-crash-with-wife-and-son-speaks-about-tragedy/

I also know of a person that died earlier this year on a flight from home back to school at Michigan State and along with him 3 other souls perished in the crash. I will forever be impacted by this event. It didn't stop me from flying but it definitely made me think about my hobby and spend...

It seems he just made too many corrections at the end and probably lost valuable speed doing so. Focusing on landing and the corrections he was making and loosing track of his glide speed. RIP.

Yet another crash. Waiting for more information. N236KM https://www.kbtx.com/2020/09/20/plane-crash-kills-four-in-leon-county/ https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N236KM

Then there is the FAR AIM manual. 1000s of pages of how not to feed your cessna to the ground or to another cessna....and if you do they can say you didn't follow the aviation bible. At least the old testament is entertaining to read. I think some wives are not worth 30 sheckels especially if...

I get it that sucks. We all hate strong headwinds :) I would hope most of us here would bend over backwards to help a fellow aviator. Some jerk not taking a check...thats shameful. If you can afford to fly you can afford the minimal risk of a bad check. And its not like you asked for the...

"Legalistic" is only a minor point in this threat. I don't think most care about the legal crap other than to add to the point of this being a safety issue. Taking my fuel and potentially causing me a disaster in order to prevent your "disaster" is completely selfish. But it seems that many...

Mean spiritless? Friend why be so quick to judge as mean spirited an opinion that is not in line with yours? I guess its just a reflection of the times. Back to the topic...I suppose if I need some bolts and break pads or perhaps a tire I can borrow those as well and clearly a thorough...

Is there a link to these numbers? I think looking at numbers only is not an accurate way to look at accidents by hours of experience. Most GA pilots are in the 100's of hours so most accidents are in low number pilots because there is more of the around to screw up. A percentage is going to...

If the plane crashes due to fuel exhaustion, and they find the note and the individual. You can betcha there is either gonna be a civil or criminal problem for that individual. May even be federal crime. But yes... this is taking the situation way overboard. LOL in summary someone took some...

Its easy to see why there are still so many GA accidents in an era of improved information, situational awareness and safety. Darn human beings get in the way of things. I am new to this site and I know many are just messing around on here but hell guys.....With attitudes of "It's just an...

IMHO, there are 2 parts to this discussion: 1. Safety. This individual no matter the reason, diminished the fuel supply of an aircraft reducing its range. The safety of that plane/passengers/pilot is compromised as someone essentially tampered with the fuel. Again if the note falls off the...

Taking fuel from an aircraft is a huge risk to life and property, on top of tampering with someone's airplane which is illegal. There are many bad scenarios. Say the note falls off and is not seen and I just had my Saratoga topped off with 107 gallons for a long flight the next day.... it...