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I’m based at an airport that has PDC, and it’s not uncommon that I fly to other airports that have it, so I thought it might be worth it to go Performance Plus and try it out. That was about a year ago, and it has definitely not been worth it. I would guess that I probably flew at least 25...

'79 T210N is very similar to the Cardinal, although the nosewheel comes up sooner. My habit is normally to raise the gear and reduce power at around 1000 feet AGL. From below that altitude I would rather not be thinking about the landing gear if I have to land in a hurry. I too have made the...

If you're working on your private certificate right now, then my take is that desktop flight simulator software is useful for practicing checklists, procedures, and similar operations. If you can find an airplane for your simulator that is a realistic facsimile of what you fly in real life, it...

Pretty much every airport in the Bay Area is GA friendly for transients, except for SFO and NUQ. I concur that if you're going into the city of San Francisco, don't be intimidated by flying into Oakland. It is a pretty easy GA airport and probably offers the best ground transportation options...

A) THE AIRCRAFT OPERATION HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED BY ATC FOR OPERATIONAL OR SAFETY PURPOSES, INCLUDING AUTHORIZATION OF FLIGHTS SPECIFICALLY ARRIVING AT OR DEPARTING FROM AN AIRPORT DESIGNATED BY ATC USING STANDARD ATC PROCEDURES AND ROUTES This section of the sporting event TFR used to end with...

In other words, stay out of the red box/don't cross the red line... unless you're operating a flight that parks at a gate. :D

The recording of this is up on VAS Aviation's youtube channel and it's definitely worth a listen. Amazing work by that controller! The controller was a lot more useful than the supposed flight instructor that they got on comm in part 2.

A few years ago while on VFR flight following, I was headed to a class D airport underneath and on the opposite side of SFO class B. My transponder failed entirely in flight a few miles before entering the mode C veil. The controller rang me up and asked me to verify my transponder, so I looked...

I love my T210N, and that's even though I just bought it a new nose gear uplock microswitch for $1,100. :mad::D

Only one data point, but I did an avionics upgrade which replaced all the probes, and changed one gasket probe over to the bayonet style. That cylinder went from reading the coldest to reading the hottest, about 50º warmer than it was previously. As far as I know, gasket probes generally read...

Heh, I got all excited that someone else was looking for the same thing I was, and then I realized this is my thread! I still haven't gotten mine done; Tennessee is a bit farther than I want to go for this one... but I will probably just have my local A&P do it during my annual this year and be...

I'm a little late, but IME McCarran is no big deal. As far as the flying and ground ops go, it's very approachable. They seem pretty used to piston aircraft. It's expensive, but it's practically walking distance from the strip. I've recorded both into and out of McCarran on a couple of my trips...

I haven't used it, but those screen shots of FlyQ's user interface are so offensively ugly that I'm not tempted to try, either.

An interesting video on CNN showing an M20 wing. What happens when drone hits airplane

I recently installed all Whelen LED lighting in my T210. It's really bright, and I love it. Well worth the money. Going by the ammeter on my GPU, the combined draw is about 3-4 amps (28V) as things blink on and off. As far as the beacon goes, the worst part of the experience was discovering...

My carbon monoxide detector shows me the reading when it’s >5ppm, and I have once noticed it rise slightly when flying through smoke. If memory serves, that was one of the fires near Sonoma in NorCal last year. I don’t remember the exact reading but it did not get high enough to alarm (which is...

I'm not sure if my shop had a specific vendor in mind, but I seem to remember receiving a verbal estimate of about $4,000 to overhaul my T210N power pack a few months ago. I was encouraged not to mess with it if it was working, so I didn't go through with it... I'm not sure if that's the same...

I was surprised by the cause alluded to in the article: What I've read (and the fact that it ended up on a road) suggests there was a complete power loss. Does anyone know how that could happen in a Navajo? Except for crossfeed, I would have expected the fuel systems to be independent...

Hey POA-ers, I have a wet wing 1979 Cessna T210N. Based on a visual inspection of my fuel tanks, my A&P has suggested that I plan on having the tanks stripped and re-sealed sometime in the next year or so. I know there's shops that specialize in this task. I've located a few in the...

I thought that, although this article states: