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I fly a C207 for a living. They glide like a greased anvil. I'm flying a T-28 across the country right now and it might be a toss up as to which one makes a crater first. I would assume that wing tip extensions would be an STC to include a POH supplement that would have numbers for change in...

I've seen gas pulled from airplanes that sat for decades. Plane restored, tanks filled with the "expired" gas. No issues, but I'm just some guy on the Internet

Wait. Really? "I like waffles". Just as relevant.

I fly to remote villages in SW Alaska and use the OBS feature a lot. The runways can be hard to see, especially in the marginal VFR weather we operate in. Dial the runway heading into the CDI, hit OBS and now I can set up for a base entry or straight in. Reduces eye strain looking for a runway...

Get off my lawn

Having done two transponder and two NAV/COM installations under supervision I can sympathize with them. I wouldn't quote the job until I had seen what's behind the panel. I used to think the 1:1 parts/labor charge was gouging, but when you get in there you have to un-f*** the rats nest left by...

Absolutely the right choice. Over the many years I've been flying I came to be a Lycoming fan. TBOs were longer and they could generally trusted to get there. Owners of Continental powered planes always seemed to have cylinder issues and of course shorter TBOs Somewhere on this forum I learned...

This. ^ The Lycoming O-320 in my Citabria had a crank AD that was addressed in 2003 (way before I bought it). There were pictures in the logs showing the crank that was removed. It looked like a rusty farm implement after many years of exposure to weather. The plane was not a hangar queen by any...

Well at least the STC will pay for itself in, uh...er. Well. Soon

Gryder's theatrics aside, his case is very solid. The second hijacking (who here knew there was one?) using the same MO, which lead to the arrest and recovery of the money is very convincing. When you see the guy walk out of the courthouse and compare it to the composite sketch all you can say...

As our chief pilot at work says "the only way you find out what really happened is if the pilot dies".

Fat tire mountain bikes were originally meant for down hill. Like, ride the chair lift at a ski area off season and ride down. On anything other than flat ground they were a tank. e-bikes are, well, e-bikes. No question they get average people out on the bike path. They're fine until you run...

Going through a divorce?

Yes, get a Sentry. Only ipads which are capable of data (not just wifi) will have an internal GPS. You don't have to have a SIM in it for it to work though. I'm not an apple fan but got a mini for my flying job in AK. My normal phone with Verizon is completely worthless up there, so I got the...

IRA? Isn't that a form of retirement savings?

The OP format is N for North, then AA degrees, BB minutes, CC seconds. What Pinecone said also works for seconds because there are 60 seconds in a minute of angle. If your coordinate is N 47 degrees, 12 minutes, 34 seconds you start with the seconds. 34/60 is 0.5667 Add that to your 12 minutes...

Not every adult weighs 200 lbs. I know everyone says a 172 isn't a real 4 seat plane but I've put 4 adults in one, left very little fuel behind and was absolutely legal/safe. Warrior is very similar in capability. I say this 18 year old did well

I've got some time flying behind a Russian knock off of the Aeromatic prop. It's actually a genius design which changes pitch based on airspeed (wind load on the blades) and rpm (it has counterweights which get adjusted for the specific application). No knob inside. Works well enough to...

And tree branches in the gear doors. My vote, after puting several hundred hours in the past six months: If you can get the doors closed and it doesn't fall on its tail it will fly. Your 20gph can be met at 24 squared.

27 amps in cruise? Wow. Running a toaster oven or what?