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with light-ish winds I'd pick the runway that is closest to the direction I'm headed, subject to consideration of surrounding terrain, emergency landing sites, community noise concerns, yada yada

I was working for an oilfield services company on the ground. We also had guys flying surplus O-2's doing pipeline inspection. One of them was an alcoholic and unreliable. My boss knew that I had messed around at my neighbor's farm strip as a kid with his aeronca champ. He put me in the O-2 and...

They catch fire, it happens. We use them in lots of pieces of equipment and every year we have a few units out of a couple thousand that have a battery fire. As mentioned, it usually happens while charging. In the plane I always have my ipad and iphone on charge, also the 496 battery. I worry...

Yes, I started out flying in south africa in the early 90's. You'll find the costs are reasonable by world standards but quite expensive by US standards.

no, i don's lose any sleep over safety, the problem with them is keeping the fire lit, not putting it out. People neglect them, then the spouse and kids get cold, then the family doesn't want to get in the plane anymore. That's why I spend the time and money to keep them in good shape.

That's an easy thing for a mexican to say. Up here we tend to get cold the much of the year. To turn your comment around, what's up with tapping a source of deadly carbon monoxide for heat, with the poison separated from the people by a single piece of flimsy, vibrating sheet metal? Sounds...

I have one in the plane, and I have one in the car. But these days the thing I'm more worried about are lithium batteries. The other day i was hanging around the hangar waiting for someone so i decided to take an oven mitt and try to throw my imaginary burning iphone out the little beechcraft...

Yep. I'd guess the majority of the active piston fleet is in this class.

The MU2 mandatory training history, says otherwise. That was a huge success and i'd expect to see it replicated for other fast types. Personally, if i was king i'd mandate somethng similar for lancair 4's. I've done the initial flighths on a couple of them and I had to leave before the owner had...

obviously this is an academic exercise. A seminole will stall before it will run out of rudder.

Amazing how many people are ready to throw away parts they read about on the internet. OP, i would make no assumptions about anything in your engine until you take it apart and measure the parts.

good thing you aren't the one making the call. I'd take his 6000hr crank over a new one

I disagree. If you're going to split the case then the incremental to write it up as a major OH isn't that much.

the day we were loading hay bales and i realized i was throwing the bales higher than my father, that was both the best day and the worst day of my teenage years

great, but before you write off the idea of an overhaul, get the list of mandatory replacement items and talk it over with your A&P. It might not cost that much more to be able to list 0 SMOH in your logbook for resale considerations

sometimes. The home depot parking lot is difficult for me

odyssey's are different, they are dry cells. No usual need to keep them on a float charger but if you do, better buy the odyssey charger. on the rare occasions I want to leave mine on a tender I use a power supply that lets me set the float to 27V. It's a little pricey though. It's the same...

haven't noticed that. i hear plenty of honking. frequently it's directed at me

furthest I have? I've taken PA32's from Brazil to Africa furthest I will? machinaw city to machinac island.

he said "thesis". Thinking back it took me 2 years of hard work to write my thesis. I don't recall using any surveys.