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2016 Willits Airport Day & Burger Fly-In -- Sunday, Sept 18, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fly in for a free Lions Club Burger at the Willits Municipal Airport (O28) located near the northern California Redwoods an hour north of SFO and an hour west of SAC. Great food, music, exhibits and demonstrations...

The most accurate visual inspection of tire pressure for me is to look at the sides from directly above. If the bottom is bulged more than the top, the tire pressure is probably low. If your own plane, you probably know what optimum pressure looks like.

My Cessna 150 preferred 5 quarts.

Thanks, John Collins. Great tip!

Yep, it depends on the local climate and the hangar rates. Here in rural northern California, winters aren't extreme with just a few inches of snow. Hangars are $180 and tiedowns are $40. My aircraft was metal with no corrosion so I opted for tiedowns, saving enough each year to pay for my...

T-hangars at Willits (O28) are $180 a month.

How am I supposed to buy fuel if you borrow my book? ;)

You never know!!!

Loads of practical tips on how to bring down the costs of going up are in my latest aviation book, THE FRUGAL PILOT: How to Fly on a Budget now available in a print edition and a Kindle edition. More info on my website: FrugalPilot.com. Thanks for looking!

Make sure you stop by Willits Municipal Airport (O28), 120 miles north of SF as you fly up Hwy. 101. Pilot Lounge (kitchen, soda), covered redwood picnic tables, self-service 100LL. Sign our log!

Congratulations, ATLShaun! See you in the pattern!

$4.59 at Willits, CA (O28).

Never give up. A good friend of mine earned his pilot license at 66!

Thanks for everyone's input! By far, more respondents have ethanol-free mogas available to them, either at an airport or at local fuel stations. Here in California, not. Don't the environmentalists realize that the 100LL we burn has four time the lead of mogas?

In some states, like California, ethanol-free mogas is nearly impossible to find (except at some marinas). Does your state sell mogas to pilots; if so, what is the current price? Comments?

If an owner performs owner-pilot maintenance allowed by FAA Part 43, he or she must log it and sign off with the pilot certificate number. That way the FAA, A&P-IA, and others know who did what.

IAs. Sorry.

I think that "supervised" refers to things the owner does that normally requires an A&P to do and/or signoff, not things the FAA allows owners to do and sign off.

Healthy discussion. I believe that when an owner, performing owner-allowed maintenance, signs off the task in the appropriate log book, the liability for that task falls to the owner, not the A&P who signs off the annual.

"One thing all airplanes need is regular maintenance, even ones that don't fly much. A frugal pilot knows how much of that maintenance he or she can legally do and comfortably do. What preventive maintenance an owner-pilot can legally do on an aircraft is outlined in FAR Part 43. In summary...