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It's just an airplane. But park facing into the wind. It's really embarasing to have to get a tug to turn you around so you can start engines.

Me too

The problem with the idea of an e/ab turbojet is getting rvsm. Probably not possible.

a better savings would be to move out of new york. Then he could afford to fly as much as he wants. when you have an airplane you don't have to live in a place like that to enjoy it. If the girls want to go shopping there or take in a show, we fly there for the weekend. Then we get the heck out.

just speculating, after lycoming made inroads at beech with the duke and the 56TC, continental might have been willing to do anything to not lose another airframe

I already pack these batteries around with me to power my tools. My cost was $5

obsolete ryobi charger, was for the ni-cad batteries. Rip out the guts, install a couple USB power supplies. Charge devices anywhere.

the weight is not dictated by the number of people in the seats. weights are no different today than they've ever been

what you are seeing are fuel saving measures including selecting the amount of power needed for each takeoff and not more

airlines have always operated at gross, full seats or empty seats. They have cargo sitting there ready to go and if there is extra weight available it gets loaded

Wow that's high. How can indiana be more expensive than illinois? Ethanol-free 91 is 2.53 here this weekend

read through this thread (over a period of a few days). You'll find discussion of costs for various panel upgrades that people have undertaken http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2248&start=165

If you install a different model engine or prop you'll need to fly off some test hours again like when it was newly-built. Aside from that you or anyone else including your child or dog, can install or modify anything you want. The only thing you need a piece of paper for is the (annual)...

all in all that sounds to me like you want the 172 back

A lot of these "aircraft landing light" LED's, if you look at the part number on the back , you can find something remarkably similar, and coincidentally with the same PN, at your local red or green tractor dealer for ~$40. And because some tractors are 12v and some are 24V, these LED's...

most of us also catch more fish when we are fishing alone. Then we elect to throw many of them back, just because.

from the standpoint of taking a holiday, the counterpoint is that going to PR you don't see any benefit from the strong USD

doesn't PR count as "domestic" ? It does at our company, no premium to work there

slight tangent - we have a guy at work who cannot be medically cleared for his old job after he came home from iraq because of his "traumatic brain injury". They have him a purple heart when his vehicle was damaged by an explosion. He says he doesn't think he really had a concussion, he claims...

It's a difficult problem. I just moved back to the US after a couple of years in australia. It's been a real joy to wear regular shoes again instead of the claw-equipped australian shoes that were needed to prevent one from falling into space. On the plus side the airplane i was flying down...