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  1. brian]

    When can you afford an airplane?

    What do you do with the previous plane(s)? ;)
  2. brian]

    When can you afford an airplane?

    Might as well ask: What is the meaning of life.... Imagine yourself dead - did you do everything you imagined. Imagine yourself old - do you have enough money to eat. Land somewhere in-between...
  3. brian]

    Seems legit

    So, "chair flying" this one for a minute: - Owner "gives" it to you. - You go to pick it up. Now what???
  4. brian]

    What is your plane's name?

    "Baby" Named by the former owner's wife. It is fitting for an airplane that is "babied" before and after each flight with polish, wax water and elbow grease ...
  5. brian]

    EVERYBODY was out flying today

    I’m getting fly in announcements from AR, MO, OK, TX
  6. brian]

    EVERYBODY was out flying today

    How high did you have to climb.
  7. brian]

    EVERYBODY was out flying today

    Say- when you gonna raise the gear? It is always interesting to see how much travel the elevator does on wing videos like that.
  8. brian]

    EVERYBODY was out flying today

    The front. If it looks turbulent— it is. (Pretty mild this time.)
  9. brian]

    May it be safer to use less power on takeoff?

    I use 124% original power on takeoff (from original configuration). Could use a little more.
  10. brian]

    EVERYBODY was out flying today

    It’s a small poor state. :p
  11. brian]

    EVERYBODY was out flying today

    Not sure if it was due to the front coming through tonight or what, but 122.7, 122.8, 123.0 and 123.05 were lit up today.
  12. brian]

    Daily Pic

  13. brian]

    Slowing down to Va in turbulent conditions

    When the head meets the headliner- slow down. Happens. Near as I can tell, loss of control and pulling the wings off is my biggest worry. (Later v tails have stronger wings so you pull the tail off instead.) hard to get in the yellow in level flight. Pitch down and then one needs to throttle...
  14. brian]

    Paperwork signed on this guy!

    Nice! (And I’m a bonanza guy.)
  15. brian]

    Incremental Flaps In The Pattern

    Da20 - first notch of flaps seems to add lift- if any drag - second notch adds some drag Early 35 - no notches - just flip the switch when ready and wait what seems like forever for the drag to come in. (With gear out and flaps down, it drops like a stone) I just add flaps when the...
  16. brian]

    Wearing glasses with aviation headsets

    But to keep the frames from digging in on a long flight- I’ll move them up above the ear piece a bit.
  17. brian]

    Finding more work.

    And I thought it was just my A&P wanting to buy a new fishing boat ...
  18. brian]

    Daily Pic

    Got tossed around a bit early afternoon. Much better after 4pm. Minus a few duck diversions over KSGT today.
  19. brian]

    SixPappaCharlie's work theme song, Technologic

    Now that I had a chance to listen (some of us actually work at... well, work), I can’t help but be reminded of this one. You know you are getting old when your music appears on K-Tell. You really know you are getting old when you realize many on this board will have to google K-Tell.
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