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This is exactly how I have seen it happen. After 25 years, everyone forgets that they agreed to give the hangar to the airport and rent it back from them. At the beginning it sounds like a fair deal for the cheap land lease, but after owning and maintaining it for 25 years, no one wants to give...

If you are talking about the Republic One SID, then that is kind of cheating. It might be a SOCAL thing. Maybe it is due to the vast ARTCC coverage, which also gives us things like TEC routes. I have never gotten a SID or STAR unless I was flying along in the Pilatus going up to the flight...

I think chapter 11 was their only option. Their loan was called. This isn't like a mortgage that you pay back every month for 30 years. When the loan term is up, you owe it all back. Chapter 7 requires you to sell off your assets to repay the creditors. That wasn't an option. With O&G down...

There is a third option you didn't mention. If an ODP exists, then you are probably going to get that in a light GA airplane. The ODP will specify how to proceed in each direction if necessary. If no ODP exists, then you will fly a diverse departure, or vectors. SIDs are not going to be given to...

Maybe they are talking about those wires you see about 10 seconds in to the video. It's hard to tell where they run exactly, but maybe they were in the way of an upwind landing. I wouldn't call this VRS. The ROD was way too low for that, and it appears he is able to kind of check the ROD a...

I understand exactly where you are coming from. In the past I have never been scared while flying. I have about 3,000 hours. I've done 24 months in Afghanistan flying Apache's. I've landed EMS helicopters at 2:30am in the dark mountains, gusting winds, brownout conditions, with wires in the...

Bill is a Corvair guy, and has been involved in flying Corvairs for a very long time. Essentially this airplane was built around a Corvair. Additionally, this airplane was designed with simplicity as a major design parameter. A direct drive 120HP air cooled engine is insanely more simple than a...

On average there are a bit over 8 Fatal Medical Helicopter crashes per year. We'll round up to 9 for our calculations. If I am not mistaken, a conservative estimate on the number of pastors with a congregation in the US is about 100,000. I don't know how big your congregation is, so I have to...

Wait, you mean pilot's actually try to calculate the W&B questions? Perhaps it has changed when they redid the written tests a couple years back, but when I did the COM and ATP written, I just studied the answers over and over and over again. I missed 1 question on the COM and scored something...

Just ask an experienced A&P, they should know what RX means on a connector pin out, and that 406 ELTs don't have internal GPS. Oh wait...

Ummmm, not even close. I'm just throwing out a guess here, but I bet there are hundreds of lakes higher in elevation that 1800 meters. Maybe "mountain lake" means something different in Kyrgyz. Been to Manas. Beautiful views. Didn't seem like much of a country otherwise.

Monowheel is cooler!!! In all seriousness, if you don't know much about composites, your best bet is to find someone who does pre buys on experimental composite airplanes. Where are you located? I know just the guy if you are out West. A visual inspection and tap test can check for...

Actually a guarantee of "flow" means a direct transfer to a larger carrier without needing an interview once your number is up.

Thanks for the help guys. I will call that number on craigslist and see what that is all about. Ramona is kind of a last resort right now just because of the distance. Gillespie is 25 minutes from home, Brown 30 minutes, Ramona 55 minutes. Montgomery field would be the best at 15 minutes, and...

The Sonex is pretty small. It has a 22' wingspan, with the wings being less than 3' off the ground. Total height to the tip of the tail is 4 1/2'. It can fit pretty well with another airplane in anything but the small T-Hangars. My problem has been finding people to talk to and developing that...

I checked out EAA14 at Brown Field this Saturday. I've got a bit of a rant with the direction the EAA is going. Just about all of the airplanes I saw in the EAA hangars have never or will never fly again. They are junk. I know someone put a lot of time, money, and passion in to each of these...

Haha, oh the irony.

Thank you! I love everything about space exploration in the time of the Freedom missions to the Apollo missions. I would give anything to be alive in those days with a chance to be one of the Apollo astronauts. I still think it was man's greatest accomplishment. They truly found a way to do the...

Thanks for the idea. I'll try to get out there on one of the upcoming Saturday's to join their chapter and talk about hangar options. Anyone else have any additional ideas, or know someone looking to cut hangar costs by sharing with a little Sonex?

I just took a transfer to San Diego and am looking for somewhere to put my Sonex. I work at KMYF but it seems like finding a hangar here is pretty much impossible. I'm open to any airport in the greater San Diego area. Ideally I would like to share a hangar as my Sonex is pretty small, and short...