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good point, no way should something be firmly mounted. Far better to use some flaky suction cup and have it be a potential projectile.

no comment on the proposed box, but we have very similar tastes in radios

a MLP (master limited partnership) is a specific thing, it was originally dreamed up as a way to make it easier to raise money for extremely capital intensive, long-paying enterprises. That's why you mostly see them owning things like pipelines, property with stands of timber, etc. One of the...

some mistakes in the posts above the whole point of an MLP is that it acts like a partnership but it IS publicly traded. I also acts like sort of a tax-deferred investment. The distributions that you receive every quarter and not taxed as capital gains, but your basis in the shares (like...

Ted, you're 30 years too late. From where you are, you used to be able to drive up to the TWA overhaul base at MCI and ask if they'd let you rummage through their tires that were headed back for recapping. DC9 tires made excellent tractor tires for use with a heavy front loader.

I've interviewed a lot of engineering grads for entry level positions. Hundreds. We would never count an ER degree as an "engineering" degree.

Fine, but i might suggest you read the OP again, S/he is trying to slice it down to single $$ per hour resolution. I can't predict that close on my lawnmower much less my airplane. It's paralysis by analysis. Once you go to a club or fractional, they cant predict it that well either. Their...

It IS an extremely expensive hobby, but so are all motorsports hobbies. You can pretty much spend as much or as little as you want on anything with an engine. Our neighbors spend way more on their snowmobiles than we do on our champ. And the snowmobiles are faster

USAFA, Annapolis, after those i can't think of any

We have a few of those around the place for odd jobs. Put farm plates on it, doesn't cost much. Also look into insuring your "fleet" as a farm policy. Join kansas farm bureau.

Way too much analysis. If you join a club then you have lots of other people voting on how to spend your money. If you want to control your costs, find a plane that fits your budget and buy it yourself. I doubt you'd do anywhere near this much ciphering before buying a late model used pickup...

IMO the LAST thing we want is definitive rulings. Just look at the fiasco that was the "definitive ruling" of what constitutes "known icing" because someone pushed and pushed for an answer and wouldn't let it go.

costs of keeping a twin and generally overblown, mostly by people who have never owned one the all-in cost over 8 years with my travel air is lower than the fixed-gear cherokee 6 that preceded it, on a per-mile basis

Ben is still on aopa talking about not buying airplanes

sonex, assuming you're on the small side such that you can call it a 2-seater

with something like a drawbar-pulled brush hog, etc, if you turn too tight it's not likely to flip over the tractor, it's more likely to flip the implement up and onto the back of the tractor. Either way you can get dead if you don't have a ROPS

Had that happen a few weeks ago. Not a bag but got a pitot full of fur at rotation speed taking off from the cabin site. Briefly thought i'd land on the long runway in town but by flying the aoa indicator as primary it made for an easy landing at the farm.

for me, if it's a 4 hour drive or more I'll fly my own plane. if it's work travel and own plane is not allowed then I'll drive 12 hours before taking the airlines

based on recent history of new lycoming crankshafts and continental cylinders, I'd say just the opposite

if sand blasting my plane got my daughter out of there 5 minutes sooner, I'd do it