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sportcruisers are extremely light on the controls, too. even if the instructor is way stronger it's going to be difficult to get the balance right if there is even a brief lock up on the controls. have flown them many times and when landing you barely even pull back on the stick.

which oil cooler do you have? see my post a couple up. your issue sounds exactly like ours did before the new cooler...on a warm day you basically couldn't even climb without overheating. no problems now

we have a '75 172M which was having oil temperature issues. we removed our cooler #8000075 and put in #8001733 which is supposedly way more efficient and the issue was resolved. https://www.mcfarlaneaviation.com/products/product/8001733/

i'm sorry to hijack but i just have to know - this thing has a toilet just out in the open like that?

you have said that your airplane can fly for around 5.5 hours with full fuel and that you land and refuel when you hit half tanks, you don't like to fly for more than a couple of hours, and that you do this because you don't trust the equipment in your airplane. then somebody brings up how...

so if i'm on a downwind in an SR22 to some runway about to turn a 1/2-mile base and a 152 calls an 8 mile final straight in you're saying what exactly?

i have always thought so that you have time to land and clear the runway without causing the other aircraft an issue

I just completely disagree with you. When I think of right-of-way, I'm thinking of not just the situations when you're actually in direct conflict to crash. Otherwise, why would they have a stipulation for "converging traffic" or "head on" traffic. Like say I'm on a 3 mile final at 1000 ft AGL...

but according to what? i don't disagree with you, if i come up against a glider in pretty much any situation i'm giving them the right of way because i have an engine and they don't. but from what i see they only have legal ROW when converging at the same altitude. for landing, the lower...

i'm actually confused now. regs only say lower aircraft has ROW. not sure i see anything that takes into account having an engine or not

great. never said the engine failed because of the turbo. the cause of the airplane catching fire may well have been due to the turbo

i'm a bit surprised at people doubting the general speed the twin was coming in at. we have traffic calls he made which perfectly coincide with the adsb data from adsb exchange that all indicate he was doing around 180kts over the ground.

if that track is correct, the 152 basically was doing a short approach. something like a 2000-ft or roughly 1/3-mile base. he starts his turn essentially immediately after the twin calls a 3-mile final. that's why i have said that the 152 also screwed up, he's probably thinking "somebody is 3...

this is exactly why i said what i said above that if i'm coming straight in to an uncontrolled field and there are people in the pattern i'm most likely going to abandon the straight in enter by the book. yes we should expect the 152 to make a reasonable choice and know that a twin cessna is...

My take on this is that both pilots made poor decisions. It's interesting because they were both communicating exactly where they were, but basically not reacting to the situation they were seeing develop. I think the twin could have made a comment as simple as "I'm doing 180kts" and the 152...

with the information we have so far, it's hard to put much blame anywhere other than the twin. he was coming in way faster than the 152 should have expected. i just can't understand the 180+ kts on the entire length of the approach. that was absurdly reckless coming in double the approach speed...

what am i looking at here

wow just listened to the ATC audio. based on the track log, what the hell was the twin thinking doing 180+ kts over the ground straight in on short final? anybody who flies one of these have some insight? starts around 24:00 for when the twin is making his first calls...

https://pajaronian.com/three-dead-after-planes-collide/ Looks like Cessna 152 N49931 and Cessna 340 N740WJ No ADS-B track for the 152 in the past couple of days. Don't know if that actually means that the ADS-B may have been off or not working.

very sad. just seems so pointless to kill yourself over a relatively minor incident. i don't buy any of these ludicrous "the PIC pushed the kid to kill himself" theories i think the NTSB preliminary is probably correct, i don't see them including those sort of details unless they have...