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I've looked at that one too and as long as the airframe is clean its (might be?) priced right. I am a bit concerned about a broker who says of the paint "Exterior is original paint in good condition, Very minimal fading, with a couple spots where the paint has been touched up. Shows very...

Forgot to add I looked at 177s too. My old club had a 177B that was fun to fly, although not that fast. I was set on 177RGs between the DA-40 and Mooney phases, but the spar corrosion, gear, and just not much savings over a 182 made me drop them from consideration

I suspect he was by himself and it wasn't too hot out? Tigers are (apparently) fine at low loads and reasonable temps, but bump up either and climb suffers

That is why I was thinking 182. I want to own an airplane to go places. As much as I have time/ability, both of which are lacking. The master mechanics in the family would be very disappointed in my mechanical abilities :D Plan to keep plane either forever or until I determine I want...

Never looked at one, but not against. What kind of cruise performance do they have? How about take off/landing distances?

Not great short field in comparison to the 182 or even a 172. And certainly neither Grumman or Mooney compares to a 182 for soft. But again, I've never done much short of soft field, but it seems like it would open up more destination opportunities. Don't most airports require you to have...

Although I don't own a plan yet, with many of the flight school planes I fly having Garmin 345s and that being a likely route I'd take for a plane I buy, that is why I decided to "build" a Stratux box.

Yes, another (in)famous “Recommend me an airplane!” thread. Why do I think I want a plane: Availability. Renting was not an option where I lived before and the Club of many people I joined was an economic option, but I tend to be a bit fussy and want my own stuff. I’m not against a club, but...

The recommend battery has a built in (mini?) usb cord that plugs into the Pi. It has another regular USB port where you can plug in any cable - old 40-pin, new lightning,usb-c, etc.

The total tool kit I used: Eyeglass-ish size phillips screw driver Needle nose pliers Tweezers (not needed if you have small/steady hands) 1 cotton swab Rubbing alcohol (last 2 used to clean chips before sticking on heat sinks) No other tools needed, no soldering: 2x heat sinks for the...

If you back up to a cloud, you can access from home...no need to carry a physical drive around.

Foreflight and a number (most of?) the of others. You plug in a USB GPS device; I "splurged" for the $18 external mount Vk-162. It interfaces with the iPad via Wifi. Yes, cost wise it seemed worth it to at least try this out.

For home, data lives on a RAID1 NAS box (don't care about performance) and overnight that NAS is backed up to the cloud. I currently use JungleDisk for the front end and Amazon S3 for the actual data. If I was starting from scratch today, I'd probably choose Cloudberry. Something similar would...

I just my built my stratux box this evening from the parts listed on stratux.me. Ordered them from Amazon on Monday. I'm about to get a wifi only iPad Mini 4 and I figured putting this together for $140 in parts was better than $100 GPS box. Took about 30 minutes using a screw driver, needle...

Excellent! Looks like I'm going to go get my BasicMed. Now that I am getting back into flying, I'd like to legally be able to make type of flights the OP described. I haven't flown at night since my PPL training.

I thought when you get BasicMed it replaces your existing 3rd class rather than being concurrent.