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I don’t know much about Cirrus or their training but, if you can, I would take a lesson in one to see how it feels. I think even an SR20 would be a better introduction than nothing at all. And there’s not much that would be worse than paying enough to buy a vacation home somewhere toward a plane...

How much anti-ice capability do you want? How flexible are your trips outside Florida? Additional capabilities (plane and pilot) mostly make your go/no-go decision making more complicated and the holes you can dig for yourself deeper. Knowing this going into it will help you decide the right...

I found this thread that makes it sound like Foreflight will work fine with it. https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/anyone-with-a-garmin-gps175.136640/ I’ve only found two reasons to renew my Garmin Pilot subscription. Database Concierge if you have a panel that supports it, and...

They've been doing these Early Analysis videos for a while. This is the first one I watched since the loss of the prior presenter and I think the quality has gone down. They generally do a good job sticking to the facts, which puts them far ahead of Gryder.

I see you own a thesaurus. :cool:

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Cue the narration by a former Arrow owner: It was not the last time he made that mistake.

Given a post in another thread this week talking about the total savings of eliminating 75 lbs of paper charts on each flight, there are actually many brains involved in any such decision.

It’s hard to think of an airline crash that this couldn’t be said about. There’s no way a professional flight crew would make such a mistake … except for the times that they have. Invulnerability is the mother of all hazardous attitudes.

Unless you count patience as a skill. That one takes forever.

Everything here. Also some black and gold clecos. A half dozen of each is probably enough for the RV-14. You will probably need a new torque wrench. Mine were all off-scale low for the AN3 torque specs that were an everyday occurrence on the plane. I also bought a new air compressor to lower...

Our 310 has six seats and a UL a bit over 2,000. The comfort level of the third row seats for adults limits duration, so you don’t need full fuel on any leg with full seats. I have done long legs with full seats, but 3 of the occupants were aged 3 to 9. If I load 6 x 200 lb people I have room...

From nauga’s post, I should mention the best tool I made. Just a piece of scrap aluminum with a hole to fit a washer, so I could get it into the unreachable spaces. For store bought tools, here are a few that come to mind: 1. Upgraded drill. I wish I had splurged on that. Mine was fine but I...

That's one of the best tools I got. Pneumatic squeezer is another worthy upgrade.

Most of my worst injuries were due to washing dishes. Many of the others involve me trying to keep up with a dog. You're both in good company. Or ... well, at least my company. Judge the goodness on your own.

A commercial pilot (really, any certificated pilot) is supposed to have a working understanding of the regulations, whereas Pop-Pop's Muffler Emporium can't be expected to know that their corporate plane needs more than a pilot to run a charter. It makes sense to require certificated pilots not...

I’m against it. If you think they meow on guard a lot now, just wait until they don’t have an FO to talk to.

It can also mean that you didn't have the pressure right on the bucking bar, gun, or air hose. Or debris between the parts. Some of the kit instructions are "drill and cleco a whole bunch of holes, but uncleco and re-cleco the entire assembly every few holes to clean out debris." You get to...

I can think of at least three signals of impending doom other than the simple fact that they were taking off from a closed airport at night: 1. The airport manager went out of his way to tell them that the airport was closed and takeoffs were prohibited at night. When the person most...