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Happened while I was away. FAA is currently involved. Just had to deal with ordering a 4000 dollar bumper for the landing gear earlier today. Time to buy a new rudder too! Maybe more! Any other things you guys think should break while we're at it?

We had the strobes off and sadly can't turn off nav lights because having them on is required to keep the ADS-B working. If that turns out to be the case, is it legal to install extra shielding on the cables? I have quite a bit of electromagnetic shielding sleeve at home.

Just bought the plane, and the seller doesn’t know where it is but says either the wing or the tail which isn’t really helpful. The G5s are up to date and nothing new has been installed. I considered it, but one of the times it happened was very close to my home airport where I know for sure...

Yeah, that’s what was unclear to me. It could be a three axis fluxgate but it could also be saying that it’s an entirely different type of magnetometer, depending on how you interpret that sentence.

During a 3 hour cross country, the magnetic heading on both of my dual G5s would occasionally oscillate back and forth a few degrees then completely fail, only to come back a few minutes later. This happened probably 4 times. Does anyone know what the cause could be and if it would be possible...

I know MI means shallow when referring to fog, no idea what SO means.

I’ve landed in stronger crosswind a few times

Was the oil level normal before you took off? And was this the same oil you were using before?

Was the oil temperature also increasing?

I actually spend more time flying in Ohio than anywhere else and just bought a plane there. The Toledo approach controllers are very nice.

The airport is in Ohio

On runway 10L, lowest RVR 5000 feet and highest more than 6000 feet Wind shear at 2000 feet, with wind on top from 130 at 35 Freezing fog

Recently I saw my favorite code: LTGICCCCG

No, it didn’t say anything about it in the prebuy.

That makes sense, maybe it was there to begin with and I never saw it. Another possibility I had considered was during the touchdown the stress on the gear may have briefly deformed the O ring inside the pivot there enough to let a small amount out. It doesn’t explain why it would be so old...

Well that makes me feel somewhat better. I’d compare the landing to a firm airliner landing.

Part of the issue is that I really have no idea if I’ve damaged it. I’m just used to hearing about the fragile landing gear on the Cessna retractables and was under the impression that a bounce means it’s broken. It was definitely not a porpoise, and got too slow maybe 3 or 4 feet above the...

Yes, it was the end of a very long, hot day flying with him nonstop. I’m going to check it tomorrow but I really, really don’t want to fly the plane to check if the gear is bent. Brake should be easier to check.

Strangely, that spot of fluid is very dark and sticky like old engine oil. The fluid in the reservoir is red like you’d expect. I don’t really have any idea what else it could be, though.

Just got our new R182 back home today and it was about 100 degrees and extremely humid so I was already having a pretty hard time. We had a somewhat hard landing that bounced once, main gear first on the initial touch and the bounce after. Half of my hours are in a 172RG, and I’ve never had as...