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It appears that nobody has yet reached the exalted state of "Hangar Owner", and only @denverpilot has managed to tie down (possibly excepting the curious case of @Henning).

The CT registration sticker you get from the tax clerk in the town where it will be registered (the town where the airport is located). To get that, you need proof that the sales tax was paid. Unless you're filing a CT income tax return and pay the tax that way, you pay the tax to the...

How do those work? I was interested, but they only work with istuff for streaming, and I'm not particularly interested in switching from android... but eventually Sony will see the light (or it is it the dark side?) and add android support. I've been using Eargo for the past couple of years...

Then you'd have linear TFRs along the road or railroad, like a giant invisible wall you can't cross.

I just finished "Marijuana Smuggling for Fun and Profit" by Robert Bach. A fun read, especially for those who hung out at small low budget airports during the 1970s-80s. A mix of "yeah, I've known some of those characters" and "there but for the grace of God..."

First is "paying landing fee.'

That will only tell you how long the engine will run on what's in the float bowl since the fuel in the lines and gascolator won't reach the engine with the fuel valve off. That will probably be a good bit more than the contents of the float bowl.

Switching tanks before landing means you have two available tanks that are known to be working.

Is he under the hood when solo?

One A&P I know will do condition inspections on Experimentals, but only if they have Continental or Lycoming engines. My plane at the time had a Mosler half VW engine, so he wasn't interested.

Got a triple!

The Catskills and the other mountain ranges along the Hudson River aren't big mountains, but they've been claiming lives in bad weather for over a hundred years. Sunday was very windy with periods of rain, possibly freezing rain at altitude. RIP.

I put a Brigs & Stratton lawnmower engine on a bicycle. It was a vertical shaft, so I used the right angle gearbox from a self propelled mower, and had a lever as a hand clutch to move the idler pulley on the belt. Yeah, it was dangerous, and lasted until the brakes failed and I ran it into a...

The fancier ones require power but the simpler ones often don't. As I mentioned earlier the one in our cabin has a turbogenerator to generate electricity from the water flow but many others have pilot lights or are powered by a D cell battery. The one in our house requires 120V because if the...

I had something like that, but I think it was a knockoff version, I don't remember the key switch. It was on my Schwinn Sting-Ray (with the obligatory STP sticker on the seat). But baseball cards and clothespins worked almost as well.

I have a fancy coffee maker that has a vacuum carafe, grinder and a timer, which I set it to start 10 minutes before I wake up so I have a hot cup waiting when I stumble down the hall into the kitchen. Like most carafes, you can pour without removing the lid from the lid from the carafe...

You can get shimmy even if you have a perfectly balanced (static and dynamic) wheel. But I agree that a dynamically unbalanced wheel is more likely to start shimmying when the imbalance kicks it off center. Once the shimmy is established, its frequency may not be the same as the wheel's...

It doesn't matter one bit what "a reasonable person would agree". The only thing that matters is how the FAA sees it and you (and the AME) have to play it by their rules or you don't get to play at all. No arguments will get them to bend even a little. It may not be "reasonable", indeed it's...

Hey, my hair isn't white! Well, it has gotten kinda gray though...