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O2 is cheap. Pilots are cheaper.

You can do it. If you want to write it off well you need to talk to somebody else, since you can't pay your self in dollars (if you are not a commercial pilot) you will have to pay yourself in smiles.

Thank you. Interesting. We are headed in next week and one of the things that we are going to do is update the software on the 345, I doubt the 530 has been updated since it was installed in 2015. If I had one wish it would be that everything was owner/user updatable like the G5s.

I was working up my invoice for solo installation support billed at double dual instruction rates before I chimed in. Glad you fixed it. Electrical gremlins are frustrating.

I understand brand strength, then I see that some brands have had some big SBs recently for major items like crankshafts. Throw in TBO hysteria and you get a lot of confusion and wasted money. What I find far more interesting is that pilots, who seem to be cheaper than most, would put "Bobs...

If you intend to fly high a lot then consider a mountain high pulse demand system. Or if your friends rig is the cats meow, build 2.

More of a request for opinions on why people think an engine is worth almost twice as much because it is redone one way or another. I said “it’s just a question” hopefully implying that it wasn’t questioning you. I am questioning the idea that somehow because Vref says so and everybody believes...

They had a good crew at Peterson AFB when I was training, think I was flying some active duty Lt Col's personal plane. I would recommend them to somebody over the 141 down the street from my hangar where I did my comm multi. That outfit isn't horrible but scheduling was difficult, I had three...

Its the name of a troll that has the POA natives restless again.

I said he was a bad student. I want to quit flying because of him. I judge early and often.

Just a question because we will eventually need an engine be it tomorrow or in another 1000 hours. This is the first plane I have ever been a partner in and it wasn't a hard sell but the plane was almost at TBO when I bought into the partnership. Now, we are well beyond TBO, this engine (from...

If you can get on with an aero club they can be somewhat cheaper. I completed my CFI at one (already had the -G) and the equipment was good. A lot of extra work cause like the military they take the fun out of everything. Wasn't keen on taxiing around for .3-.4 every flight because it was on a...

Salty is more of a tell you how you should do things kind of guy/gal. I put him on ignore for a while but then I forgot how I should do things so I brought him back into my life.

Dune? I would never fly with a guy named Dune. The simulator is always available because young CFIs can't log time in the sim even as a procedures trainer you fight the sim. I just looked up both flight schools at Boulder I know a few of those guys. I like the one with tons of hours who used to...

Needy, emotional and dramatic = poor student. So he finished ground school and knows a thing or two. There are three flight schools on the field here and they are booked weeks in advance. Good luck interviewing them. I guess customer service don’t mean jack here either. Guy can’t even fly...

I would be curious to hear why people would consider resale value as a primary reason to spend 70K on an engine vs 40K. If I put a factory new engine in my plane I wouldn't increase the value by 70K but by a fraction of that minus the hours I put on it, plus labor. Similarly with avionics, you...

You have just shown that you will be a difficult student. Sounds like you are smart enough to train yourself after starting your own flight school that has idle instructors standing by to answer the two most important questions every DA askew when they walk into a flight school to interview the...

Low overcast in Colorado.

Unfortunately their history and their success rate and their credentials have nothing to do with your success. Instruction is so personality driven. Then comes your ability to listen to and understand the person you’re going to fly with, which will also probably be different instructors. Even if...

History: We installed the 345/430 a couple of years ago but have been experiencing the communication issue on the 530 since shortly after install. It is annoying but since we fly with iPads, the lack of traffic on the 530 isn't an issue for us. As you can see it is all Garmin so I hope we can...