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I flew on one into key west in the early 80s. really noisy airplane. It was operated by a company out of New England. They went bankrupt soon after.

Stagger wings go anywhere from 200 to 400 grand. Wonderful airplane. I've ridden in one and it's a great airplane. If you sold one for 2500 bucks you really screwed up big time!

I've flown a lot of smaller Cessnas plus champs etc. most have cont. engines. Always use carb. Ice . If I have to go round I simply push in the carb. Heat knob and go round. If your familiar with the aircraft, you know immed. Upon applying power that you left it on. Not a big deal.

Kermit lost a lot of aircraft when he was at tamiami. The storm blew a B17 a good ways and ruined it among other serious damage. It's why he moved to his present Polk city location. Nothing to screw around with regardless of hangar or tie down.

Most questions asked seem to be easily answered by the person training you. If you can line up on the centerline and keep it there on final you should be able to land it. ( direct cross wind) A lot depends on your hours, can you , for instance , wing low, plant it on one wheel when you touch...

Easy to check the number of ga aircraft now compared to twenty, then thirty years ago. It's around half.

I've missed other aircraft many times and been very worried in spite of the fact I really looked carefully.

I've been terrified once or twice by a simple bug on the windshield splattered in a certain way that looked like a head on. Also, almost hit twice in patterns by nor ado people entering or in the pattern . Most pattern accidents occur this way, usually on final, one aircraft overtaking another.

I wrote previously about the fellow in western n.y. State, on his way home from church to fly his stearman, killed head on by a woman, ( she died too , two children survived , in back seat. (on a curve when she lost control while on a cell phone. 2 years ago) last week, six aircraft took off...

With the Demise of GA, fewer good APs, AIs are around which stands to reason. Remember the word GOOD. They have taken their talents elsewhere to try and make a decent living. Choose your mechanic carefully!

I had to breathe rapidly into a tube which measured my lung function.as I recall it was not very expensive. Took about 20 min. Your primary care phy. Can order it. You can also buy an oxygenator at the drug store which measures your blood oxygen level. High 90s is just fine. They cost around...

Age doesn't seem to matter for a lot ofpeople on this site who buy something like an old 172', high time engine , a fifty year old airplane or older, for too much money and hope and pray it'll go another few hundred hours. In the Air Force it was called " wishing in one hand, sh...ing in the...

Bad analogy. The nuclear power plant law is a good one and anyone who flys who pays even scant attention knows not to do this. It's the Feds. In this case it's state and some local drone cops. He obviously has money , is a business man,could know the area and he's flying a super cub worth well...

You'd better study history and see what taxes were under Kennedy ( who cut them some) thru Eisenhower. Much much higher and these were boom years. As warren buffet stated " if you were born in the U.S. You won the lottery of life" you might try Syria, Russia or perhaps Iraq and see if living...

The jets trump owns are old. They would not be allowed due to their age and lack of electronic equipment which is sizeable not to mention missle protection, etc. as for cost, the discussion should be about the f35 which will cost over a trillion dollars by the end of its run. Recently the pilots...

Someone went to some trouble redoing the interior but forgot the shoulder harnesses. Not good. I would not fly without them.

That's right out of the nra handbook . Herd mentality. Of course tougher gun laws would help. its important to know that the nra started out as a gun safety club. It became out of control as lobbyists, gun company's and greedy congressmen got involved and started all the" regulated militia"...

How anyone how anyone can compare this country to hitlers Germany needs to sign up for a history class. No maybe . Germanys morals under hitler were non existent. It's what happens when a nut case takes over. We should learn from this quickly.

The govt. got tired of paying out to for profit schools that did not graduate the number of students they claimed. Many of them closed.it could be that Too many would be aviators dropped out without finishing for a variety of reasons so now it's you pay now and they pay later. A much better...