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What a bitter joke it is, reading such wishful thinking. They put the 6sp into Crosstrek and the 6th is almost no taller than thr 5th. Both Honda and Subaru do it to their manuals.

Some people reeeeeealy need to learn to name their blessed threads properly.

I'm not a gamer, so Shield TV Pro is completely pointless for me. I bought the "hot dog" Shield TV. It was fine. However, keep in mind that even the best of the best streaming platform can do nothing if the streaming app is garbage (except blacklisting it outright). If Slick's app for Android TV...

Some people are subject to extremely strong illusions in this situation and they must be specifically trained to overcome it by using a higher brain function. I remember at least 2 similar crashes, a Gulf Air A320 into ocean some time around 2001, and a Tatarstan 737 in 2013. On both occasions...

This video is more proper than Matt Gutmiller's fine productions, I think. Notice that it even includes a significant incline.

How much did you pay for it?

I sold Carlson for under $10k. Bought it for $12k, put some time on it. But I also totaled and re-built it. The total bill of the re-build was about $15k, and it took twice as long as building it from the kit took to begin with. Got basically a better airplane out of it, but because it had a...

I thought they had an AD out for Arrows after the wing flew off one during a checkride in ERAU, with a loss of both DPE and applicant of course. As long as you comply with that AD, wings aren't going to fall off your Arrow. But not being a PA-28R owner presently I'm mostly ignorant of that...

I almost started arguing with that "High DA" boogeyman. But then I remembered that my experience is at a lowest rank of flying. I flew in New Mexico on 56 hp (sic) and now I think that "high DA" is no big deal. I took off in C150 in DA above 10,000 and it was fine. In my view, weather is way...

With your Arrow background, flying Mooney is a piece of cake. They fly very well when slow. So, don't believe these tales of being less forgiving. The annoying part about Mooney is that it takes forever for it to slow down. I start pulling power when I'm still 18 minutes ETA. The forward...

I think that rejecting all retracts on safety grounds is wrong. Some of them have a potential for mechanical issues, so I would avoid Cessna 210. But Bonanzas are completely fine. Pipers have a bullet-proof gear mechanism too. The biggest downside of a retract is the insurance. Rates are just...

Show me on this doll where the discussion about affordable airplanes has touched you.

The above assumes the same velocity of the air over the heated surface, which is a very big assumption. Liquid cooling permits a large flexibility in the design of the cooling airflow, something that the developers of the DA50 chose not to exploit.

There have been STCs for both Thielert and SMA diesels in Cessnas. They can be found flying abroad.

I only give jets a passing glance at those expos and focus on more affordable airplanes. Here's an Icon: And a Waco - old biplane with new panel:

I thought it was implied that we discussed own kids. I don't care about other children, they have their own parents with their own risk evaluation. Also, Young Eagles are statistically very safe. There was only one fatal over the whole program's existence. Making a lap around a pattern is not...

This airplane will be made viable by installing something like Rolls-Royce M250 on it. Suddenly all that extra weight becomes a non-issue and they will just extend fuel tanks outboard into the wings for 150 gallons or whatever is necessary for 4 hours endurance. Cruise at 200 knots in low tweens...

I'm reluctant to take kids up. My daughter flew with me only once, when we visited Mustang Island and didn't even drop by Jay :). Also on that flight, she factory-reset my primary navigation tablet and we made an unscheduled stop in order to obtain WiFi and recover it. Wife -- sure, that's not a...

You think those DA40 weren't sold to schools? I think primary training is DA40's biggest market. Not a month passes by without a DA40 fatal and it's always instructor and cadet somewhere in Lituania. Yes, their large contract with the USAF school in Pueblo is over, but nothing changed in the...

I've flown a few airplanes where control stick presented an interference against my legs: Remos GX, maybe FD CTLS, Progressive SeaRey, and others. In some, the interference was so significant that I would only be able to use 70% deflection. But, adverse yaw to the rescue. Just give it a bootful...