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Yup. A Barron that I used to fly was totaled by an unthinking pilot. He made a brief passenger drop enroute. He reentered the runway in a right turn and accelerating. #1 quit at rotation. The Flight Manual does say "No turning takeoffs." It also says "No take offs with selector on aux." He...

Please forgive the typo. "X" and "Z" are next to each other.

Looks like you are still ok with the current A thru E Approach categories. E limit is only 166 KTS. A Garmin 530 and Sperry Honeywell APZ 7600 work fine.

Most gear up landings are unlikely If the mfgr provides enough warning devices to make it dummy proof. One that I'm familiar with has the gear up horn and light wired into: The RADALT. Engine power. A transducer in the pitot line that blows the horn below a set speed. Also a pilot who has a...

The Musketeer has average sizes flaps, 6:00X6 tires and MLG struts that use rubber doughnuts. They are robust airplanes according to my CFI. He was a Beech test pilot. He was on a different project. However, he told me of riding with a Musketeer test pilot who wrung it out. Wing tips were seen...

It will in a BE 23.

It's always the variables that bite you. An area Bonanza pilot liked to show boat by putting the gear switch in UP and starting the take off roll. Looked cool when the wheels retracted on lift off. He was relying on the Weight on wheels switch to hold the gear down until airborne. Then he used...

Right on. I trained on these and later owned one. Just touch the brakes when the flaps are down and rolling out and you "flat spot" two tires. Its due to a low wing & airfoil that produces excellent lift flaps down, a stabilator (flying tail) that is really powerful when the yoke is forward and...

My Dodge P.U. is "The great white." I had some good and bad nose art back in military days.

I used to fly with a Dr/USN LCDR who had a J Bonanza. He had one of those units in his panel. He always offered the stick to me, but I was fascinated with the darned gadget. Couldn't leave it alone. I don't recall the name of it. Along those lines, some research was done, wayback, using dual DME...

I was bold enough to make the flat out statement that the ILS was the best procedure and superior to any GPS including LPV. First the name. The "S" in "ILS" stands for System. Lights are part of the system. ILS most times has a lower DH & vis than any GPS procedure. And the lights. An airport...

IMHO it seems that this is being "over thought." I see many opinions expressed that the VOR system is fading away. Many shutdowns. If there are no VORs in service in your area, will the VOTs and designated airport check points go away too? Could be that there will be no way to do an airborne/VOT...

I'll see his 20K and raise him another 3K. I say that my sample write up is time tested. Add the DME if you want.

Look it up in the directory and write down the lat/long.

How about: VOR ck c/w Feb 31, 2025. TBD 180 deg radial, 2'000 ft. 3 deg diff. John Wayne ATP 141414.

Test cells that I've seen have separate fuel/oil tanks that can be accessed. Come to think about it, those cells were running turbines and turbines don't have sumps.

I think that I'm on to something. All this talk about shock cooling got me thinking back to the days that I worked out of KBFM in Mobile. TCM had its engine test cell in the vicinity of our company "hovel". As we all know, engine makers must run an engine at 100% straight for 100 certification...