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:D Thanks all, that's about what I thought.

I ran across a photo of a prop repair that was interesting to me. This was long enough ago that I don't even remember where I took it. I know nothing about the airplane, its owner, or why it was repaired, but the area that's been filled appears to be a good ~5mm directly into the leading edge...

I'm curious, when was that? I never got to land on runway 29, but W1 (the taxiway that it turned into) is a lot wider than that today.

The important thing is that after they do all those things, they post a thread wondering why GA is dying.

Isn't the document supposed to be for that specific registration number to be legally defined as an "AFM" like you need here?

I joined the CPA for the Tech Notes, but I stayed for the forum. There's years and years of postings from people that have encountered every imaginable technical problem with just about every model of Cessna piston aircraft. I really hope all that content will be preserved and carried forward...

Jim, you got down safely, and a lot is being learned in this thread. Thanks for sharing. It does seem like there was a bit of get-there-itis in play with the hockey tryouts. In the absence of a factor like that, I probably would have declared and diverted to Concord, with the smoke being the...

My discovery flight was from Palo Alto, through the SFO bravo, around the Golden Gate Bridge, and back at < 2000 feet. One thing I remember about that flight is that I announced to SFO tower (and everybody else) that our Skyhawk was flying at "one seven thousand". Never have been bothered by...

Yeah, all of that!

I was there a month or two ago, first time since Signature took over. I was floored by how much the cost of gas has gone down. Very much to my surprise, they even had a 25 cent fuel discount on 100LL on the weekend.

Some previous owner installed SpeedBrakes on my T210N in the early 90s. I sometimes find them useful for quickly slowing to maneuvering speed or if I get dropped onto an approach at a big airport and told to "maintain best forward speed". My experience is that they have almost exactly the same...

Welp, if there's any one thing I learned from this thread, it's that I'll be avoiding Texas American Flight Academy.

This is a great tip! Funny enough, I had a brief exchange with a controller about a week ago about how one would fly the KSMX runway 30 ODP if the GLJ VOR is OTS. I didn't know it was possible to define user waypoints in this way. Time to re-read the 430W manual.

I asked Jeppesen for this when I was doing my instrument rating 5 years ago. Now I am comfortable with NACOs, and I don't care anymore. Way to innovate!

I wonder how long it will take before there's an overrun from an aircraft trying to push the limits of the runway.

I'm a Gojo fan, for sure.

I had Avemco renter insurance for a few years. As best I recall, when I bought my first airplane (a retract), Avemco quoted me a $12k premium. If they didn't want my business, it would have been more polite and professional for them to just tell me to go f*ck myself. The worst competing bid at...

Curious, what's the tail number?

That's my experience too. Any higher and it interferes with arrivals into Oakland. Likewise, they keep vfr departures from San Jose restricted below 4500 in that area. Can't ATC assign any altitude as long as it's above the vectoring altitude? I think the MVA in that area is around 4000. When...

I'm a lefty. I don't recall any problems, except maybe occasionally using my right hand to fly while writing things down early in my IFR training. However, with the exception of writing, I'm pretty ambidextrous in the first place and have used the computer mouse/trackpad with my right hand for...