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We don't know if war-dialing every number on the island would have led to a warm place to sleep. But it does seem like this particular group would have turned down a free hangar, room, and supper at a Waldorf Astoria located on the field. What makes this crash worthy of study is the question of...

News report claims the Bonanza was performing a go-around, veered off the runway, and crashed into the parked Twin Cessna. Evidently no fatalities. https://patch.com/pennsylvania/doylestown/2-small-planes-collide-doylestown-airport-reports Take your pick which news report you like best. The...

The friend’s hangar isn’t the only place it would be handy. For example, the fuel pump at KBXK is a taxi-in, push-out proposition. The latter is no fun at all with a heavy plane.

You don’t even want me to talk about lead times. Suffice it to say that my January 2018 empennage kit order was delivered to me faster than any of my Amazon Prime orders in the past two years have been.

Thread drift alert… Which model do you use for the T-6?

The forum quota is one secret decoder ring per user. :fingerwag:

As with all televised sporting events, I didn’t catch the fight. But what I’ve read about it sounds like a disappointment for all. Tyson today is an entertainer more than a fighter. The other guy’s resume sounds like he’s only an entertainer. How did two entertainers put on an event so deeply...

I flew it for a few hours in late 2019, mostly pattern work with a couple hops east to find clear skies, and didn’t fly mine until early 2021. So I can’t give a direct comparison. But I don’t believe the cruise performance is very different. I don’t know where I would draw the line but if you...

I should retract my "none of this is surprising" comment because I was also surprised by the diagonal measurements being that close. I've never been in a plane with both a 530 and a 650 so I haven't seen them together.

Yes, but it's the original one and straight from Lycoming with the 2-blade Hartzell prop. The newer version of the IO-390 and RV-14 kit are supposedly a good bit faster, mostly attributable to reduced drag from the new cowl/exhaust design. I didn't use the EAA build log site. Just a pair of...

I tried to back the 310 into the hangar with my Yukon and a tow bar once. The ramp was too icy for my robot tug and it was a dark night. It was not easy, even with someone else outside guiding me. It turns out that I can back a single trailer just fine, but I need lessons and/or practice with...

The actual device is much smaller, 2.65" tall vs. 4.6". But by area, the screen sizes are very close. The GNS 530W screen is 4"x3", which comes out to 5" diagonal. The GTN 650Xi screen is 4.9" diagonal. Resolution is nowhere close. The GNS 530W is 320x324 = 74,880 pixels. The GTN 650Xi is...

Indeed. My preflight inspection is very simple. I remember the weakest rivet I shot, so I check it. If it's still holding on, then the rest of them should be fine. o_O For me, building was therapeutic. It turned a lot of wasted hours sitting around doing nothing into an airplane. It was also...

I sprang for an AC Air robot for the 310. I like being able to walk the wing while I move the plane. Its only weakness is ice, so I have to work around that. But it is worth every penny every time I don’t scrape one tip tank on the hangar wall or the other one on the rudder or the next plane...

Most lawyers would take this kind of case on an hourly fee basis, with a healthy retainer to get started. The risk to the lawyer is only opportunity cost (could he have taken a more lucrative case?) and reputation cost (if you pay him a bunch of money to get nothing in return, will what you paid...

The middle step does tend to vary with local geology.

Honest answer: Rule 3S. Ask anyone in Texas about it, they should be able to explain the procedure.

It also sets up for a short final to a runway with favorable wind, when possible. It’s better than direct-to the center of an airport. But I wouldn’t trade a good PFD/MFD with in-cockpit weather or a two-axis autopilot for Smart Glide if my budget only allowed for one or the other. Things that...

Here’s what I’m struggling with… I have never been at an airport so unfriendly that I couldn’t get help out of a bind. Courtesy car won’t start, some pilot lends his personal car. Hotel isn’t answering the phone to send the shuttle, some pilot offers a ride to the hotel. Things like that are...

No couch or carpeted floor to sleep on? I have been to a handful of airports with a paved runway and truly no place to take shelter for the night, but it’s hard to imagine Catalina being that desolate.