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    How does this even happen??

    I bet you could've just glued the needle back with some epoxy.
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    Annual Due Date

    good luck with collecting 5M... and that would've been a problem in case of a pure piloting fault anyway. that said, i'm not affiliated with Avemco nor have any policy from them :)
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    Annual Due Date

    :) :) :) :)
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    Annual Due Date

    Avemco covers the owner's liability, too.
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    Annual Due Date

    With Avemco still covering the aircraft even if the annual is "accidentally" expired midterm, strict adherence to the annual schedule is becoming a thing in the past...
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    So much for the fancy gauges

    That's true. The copyright status does not depend on whether it's on the internet or not at all.
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    So much for the fancy gauges

    My understanding of the law that It is FREE if it's a fair use.
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    So much for the fancy gauges

    true, to be 100% legal it should have included the source. again, i'm not a lawyer, but i believe that the pictures like that may not be copyrightable at all. as far as i remember, one of the well know copyright cases was when a publishing company attempted to enforce a copyright on a phone...
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    So much for the fancy gauges

    There is also such thing as fair use of copyrighted material: ... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107 not...
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    So much for the fancy gauges

    so, what happened to that engine? what was the compression reading?
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    Tire thickness: 4 ply vs 6 ply

    Aviation tire catalogs usually list external dimensions (when inflated). You might want to check them.
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    Investigations

    https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/texas-man-indicted-fraud-involving-trade-airplane-and-aircraft-parts Hard to tell without looking at the actual paperwork, but I would guess that the "wire fraud" count is probably his e-mail with false statements about the airplane maintenance rather than...
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    Investigations

    apparently only if he is also making false entries into the log books :)
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    Investigations

    It looks like they mainly enforcing 49 U.S. Code § 46306: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46306 Very interesting read. It turns out that tampering with the a/c fuel system is a Federal felony. Hmmm. 1 day in the pound-me-in-the-you-know-what federal prison.
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    Tiger maintenance

    good point.
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    Tiger maintenance

    Well, the key part here is "if"... Or they may be booked up a year ahead which can make it impractical
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    Tiger maintenance

    have you got experience with them? i've seen less than flattering reviews about that place.
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    Tiger maintenance

    Electronic photocopies?
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    Stupid stuff Mechanics find.

    I have a vague recollection that acf50 can be used to treat the inside of the tube frame of the ragwing airplanes? Perhaps the extra stuff was squeezed out to the interior? Hard to judge base without seeing it
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    KLN 94 Screen removal question

    wow, intel i386 inside...
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