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Short answer; you can’t.

When I use plastic jerry cans to fuel my RV-8, I make sure to keep the plastic nozzle touching the filler neck... haven't blown up yet.

No kidding! I've been there once, was like landing on a subdivision street.

You keep pushing this idea that installing an old Narco Nav 122 is the cat's meow and that's all he needs... and I'm not going to say that you're wrong; my CFII ticket expired in '92 and I haven't looked lately at the regs as to the absolute minimum required equipment. But, it's just a bad idea...

Agreed. Installing a Nav 122 would allow ILS and VOR approaches and navigation, but, what about nonprecision approaches? The instrument rating needs more than ILS/VOR... the best bet would be a used Garmin 430, allowing ILS/VOR plus GPS/RNAV nonprecision stuff. VOR approaches are going away...

Ozona, KOZA, is a good stop; a friendly one man FBO with courtesy car and several food options in town. Not the cheapest gas, but a great little airport nonetheless...

Ditto, Wilkerson is awesome! No issues at all with them. No online ordering, gotta pick up the phone and call, but dang they seem like friendly and helpful people.

OMG... you used the words loose and lose properly, and in the same sentence no less! My hero! Seriously, lotta stupid people out there that just can't get that right...

It seems to me that if you’re adding a new GPS plus ASD-B in/out, skip the 175/Tailbeacon/Sentry combo and go straight to the Garmin GNX 375; it’s an all in one(ADSB in/out xpdr, IFR GPS) magic box that covers what you need. I installed one in my RV-8 earlier this year, it’s great little unit.

When I passed through a month or two ago I did a lunch stop at Greenwood Lake, 4N1. Pretty decent airport diner tucked under the wing of an old 749 Constellation, located just a bit NNW of TEB.

Ha! Nice. So a month or two ago we landed a CAF B-17G at Houston Exec while doing recurrent bounces and whatnot. The tower controller had absolutely no idea what to make of the big green and red 4 engine taildragger rolling down the runway... I believe his words were "What. Is. That?!?" We got...

Ah man, it’s been 5-6 months since install, don’t remember that stuff. One of these days I’ll break out the book and try another calibration on it, see if it helps.

I installed an AV-20 as a backup attitude indicator for the dual G5s in my RV-8; it works well as an AI, but for AOA, I’m not impressed... perhaps I need to play with or study it some more, but for now it just doesn’t seem very useful.

Yep! I'll second (or third?) this. I'm part owner on a T-28 parked in a group hangar; it's stashed in the back, so we have to move two other planes to get it out. On a Houston summer day this gets to be a hot and sweaty chore and just takes the fun right out of it, so we don't really fly it...

Posting a video of an F/A-18 arrival... whatever. It’s not relevant here.

A guy doing it like that is indeed a selfish asshat; the better way to do it is to set spacing from the upwind before turning onto the downwind. It’s been discussed on this forum a thousand times... Dude. Really, that’s all you got?

Because it can be a huge timesaver depending on your inbound direction, and it just works. Exactly. It’s just an upwind entry followed by a (hopefully) tight oval-ish pattern.

Wrong. It does actually serve a purpose in the civilian world... I do it all the time whether I'm flying my RV, a T-28, T-6, Beech 18, whatever... it's useful and it works. But, I personally don't use the military lingo on the radio because many (most?) others in the pattern don't understand it...

Yep, in a straight 737-900 the ref speeds are just stupid fast... what I do to land those pigs is Flaps 40, Brakes 3 every single time. Actually, I do that whether it’s an 800, 900, 900ER... it just gets the ref speeds down to a somewhat “normal” range.

Explanation please? No idea what you’re getting at...