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The basic Samsung wifi tablet has GPS. With apple, GPS is only included in the much more expensive cellular models. Many people's motivation for ipads has been ForeFlight, but since the Boeing buyout, opinions seems to be shifting. I use Avare, a free android EFB instead, including sectionals...

As PIC, you are supposed to evaluate your health before every flight, just like the weather, regardless of what medical you have--Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Basic Med or Light Sport.

with Apple, everything is extra. 64GB is included; 128 is another $100; 256 is another $100 on top of that. They don't put in memory card slots because they want your money, and memory can't be added, you have to buy a new one to get more memory. Meanwhile, my Samsung tablet uses as many memory...

And that's why he was at a Junior College . . . .

I have lots of headroom in my Mooney, enough to wear any hat I want.

I know someone who ran an airport business, and several years after the lease expired, was asked to return the clean, vacant lot to the county. Meaning without the hangar that he had built and expanded over the years. In 30 days from the letter, too.

The Owners Manual for my 1970 Mooney says to takeoff and fly for one hour; switch tanks and fly that tank dry; then switch back to the first tank. Keep track of the flight time on the second tank, you niw have one hour's less flight time left. But I switch every hour, wjth 2-1/2 hours+ in each...

If all of the automation is making airliners too complicated, how is adding more automation going to make them more pilot-proof????

I still use my 41CX that i upgraded to from a 41C back in 1984 . . . It lives in my desk at work, last used today. I also have apps on my phone [RPN Calculator] and tablet [go41c], both free from Google Play. The latter is an exact copy of the 41C, while the other one has an endless stack and...

The simpler your plane, the lower the premiums and probably smaller premium changes. I'm now paying ~$900 with Instrument Rating and > 800 hours in my Mooney. I'd be surprised if there's much of a change in simple Cessna premiums at 100 hours . . . .

You think they'd keep the memory card and give the dadgum camera back! Glad to see you getting out again.

You gotta get past the screener who asks for your boarding pass and ID before you reach the Pre-Check area to not remove your shoes. No Real ID, no get past . . . .

And a very thin atmosphere.

I bought my M20-C with 62 hours in 172s; at my first renewal, I had almost exactly 100 Mooney hours, and my rates fell by 50%. Next renewal, no change; then picked up Instruments and insurance fell 30%. So 100 hours Time in Type [Complex] saved many more dollars than adding on Instrument Rating...

Yankton, SD is a nice airport, with a brick FBO. At least, it was nice when I stopped in several years ago, and there are two runways to accommodate crosswinds.

Goodbye, morning light . . . . Going to work in the dark again. It was just getting light then.

A little older than my plane . . .

Hmmm. Your picture shows 42:7 or 6:1. The photo on the label shows 7:3 or 2.3:1, with the assumption that it's an accurate representation of the ratio of the contents. Do you remember what Felix taught us what happens when you ASSUME?

As noted by @ElPaso Pilot , maximizing fuel economy is not always (ever?) my goal. Usually it's to get where I'm going; sometimes it's to have fun on a crooked road; sometimes it's to go fast, or haul a heavy load, or not lose 20mph going up a steep hill or pull a trailer or . . . But purely...

I haven't filed a VFR flight plan since my Student XCs in March 2007, but I do use Flight Following almost all the time (but not on my 10.4nm jaunts for fuel). I always file flight plans for IFR, and usually file for IFR practice flights. XC travel may be done IFR with a flight plan or VFR with...