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I've been told -- and it makes sense in hindsight -- that adding differential thrust will actually flatten the spin further. Don't spin twins 'yall -- bad idea. Just because there's a gut wrenching delay between an action and death doesn't mean that death isn't guaranteed once that action is...

I do the same from time to time, specifically to maintain proficiency. If things get too busy single-pilot I'll put it back on to reduce workload, but if it then decides to try to kill me in that environment it's time for "unable" and "request delay vectors". I also tend to hand fly approaches...

Yeah, first and only time doing a tight 360-to-land in the C414A, turning base at the numbers per ATC (!), all after a very short final go around (for aircraft on runway) with spoilers and flaps hanging out -- boards out to make the *first* ATC-instructed unstabilized approach work in any...

I still remember my first time up there. Drinking from the fire hose with my instructor at 220KTAS up past FL200, first flight in the C414A, got my hand slapped for preferring to disengage the A/P in favor of hand flying. :biggrin: Gets a bit twitchy up there...thin air and all. Now after a...

Back safely from Oshkosh! Dodging storms on the way back...onboard radar got a workout.:cool:

This is why we watch our altitudes on approach...stratogenerator clouds are no fun :biggrin:

All right, which one of you sent both me and the B25 behind me around on 27 this morning? :fingerwag: All jokes aside, back up here for the last two days...want to see the Saturday night airshow among other things. It's been great this year!

Sometimes everything just comes together...love flying in the evening and at night. So peaceful. :cool:

Is it generally the same between Wednesday and Saturday, or is one bigger / better than the other? First time going to see the night show, just curious if I should be planning better for 2025... :biggrin:

I had terrible service up there too (T-mobile, name + shame... :incazzato:). Someone brought in a couple of portable cell towers over by the red barn, so signal was always good, but data rates were under 10kb/s. They must have a backhaul problem...wonder if they're literally trying to...

That's roughly my stomping grounds,. During the day / evening try C77, cool little airport with a lot of vintage planes on-field, choice of paved or grass strips. Otherwise KRFD / Emery Air is 24/7 full serve -- long runways, class D, with a TRSA (don't see too many of those around!). If those...

Made it in earlier this morning. Got sent in circles after landing, then banished to the south end of the south 40 with the other twins. Can't tell if we're all snobbish and standoffish, or just plotting a mass escape over the fence... Boeing Plaza is pretty cool, but I'm mainly up here for...

First time going into Airventure for me, will be there Tuesday and Wednesday with the C414-A. IFR slots all reserved, not even going to try to fly the FISK with that particular aircraft... ;) Been wanting to go for years, and everything finally lined up this year!

Definitely seeing more "hit or miss" competence. Depends on the sector / controller, but one recent (short) flight I had was an ATC train wreck, using wrong shortened call signs, multiple aborted incorrect calls to other aircraft using break to reset, etc. My favorite from that same flight was...

I can't even imagine what the controllers were going through. Spent over 45 minutes waiting in line on Alpha for IFR release on departure, it was a complete zoo with all the traffic and ZKC just couldn't accept any more departures. That was after a ground stop earlier in the day when they...

Somewhere above Austin, TX suburbs...

Cloud surfing at sunset. Was good to finally see the sun again, been LIFR / IFR with fog / mist for days and days...

Green Bay earlier today from FL200. You can see the ice forming along the edges of the smaller lakes. About the only glimpse of the ground I got enroute!

Instrument pilot here. Not a bad question at all. A lot of instrument training is learning how to multitask as effectively as possible (the human brain is not wired for it, all we can do is approximate true preemptive multitasking), but even then there is a definite cliff -- 100% saturation is...

Just to wrap things up here, new turbo, new turbo mount, new cylinder, new exhaust system parts (header etc.), and the plane is back in service. All told around a $17k unexpected bill and a bunch of driving around the country vs. flying (extra time off work). My biggest takeaways are... 1.)...