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Then I'll agree, sell the dang jet.

Yeah, I've only flown the rockies once and you can compensate by choosing your route carefully. If the 182 could make it to Southern California and back then this bird certainly will be able to as well, on the rare chance I ever need to do that trip again. @Hindsight2020, The 182 is an...

Correct. I decided that for an Ohio boy I don't need either turbocharging or pressurization in a twin. NA gets me high enough to clear the mountains I cross most often and paying more for maintenance is not high on my list. I understand it was the P variant that gave the Skymaster its bad name...

I was always destined for a twin. The only question was which one and when. I got my instrument rating, so the only thing left is my multi-rating. I started to figure that I should consider buying while the twin market is still in the dumper. I generally like how this bird is equipped, and the...

Cessna 337.

Well yeah, but the seller is asking over Vref. He's willing to trade for a 182, like mine, but right now that would be upside down (Vref shows my plane valued much more than his). Before I start really talking turkey with the seller I want to know just exactly what sort of cost I should factor...

If you we're considering buying a plane with a Continental IO-360D that had 4 of 6 cylinders in the low 60s last check what would your thinking be? Just factor in topping it when you buy it? Replace all cylinders just to be safe? The time is virtually at TBO, not that it is a death...

Sir, I will accept your apology over a well-aged single malt scotch. I am the NRA. Myself and five (5) million of my closest friends. But let's discuss N4GA for a moment. Someone asked what mission it does. A quick glance at FlightAware shows the following recent trips: KFDK - KDBQ...

1962 Cessna 182E. Great stable IFR platform that does everything I need it to. Roomy, too, even for this big guy.

15 years of marriage to the smartest person I ever met. She doesn't read POA, but I'll still say she's the absolute best mate I could've found. I am her trophy husband!

Dear Thor, please let the WBC be this stupid. Pretty please, with Stevia on top. Amen.

Had to be in the greater DC area today for business, so I put my online SFRA training to work. But the thing is if you file IFR (important caveat, you MUST get your clearance on the ground, no air-filing) you can treat it almost like any other airspace. Since I have my instrument rating now I...

Now we're getting constructive. Had I been wrong about the fog lifting it would've been an AWFUL no-go call. Since I was correct that an early spring sun in Ohio wouldn't burn off the fog from such heavy ground saturation quickly enough for my schedule, it wasn't really as awful a call as it...

Dear Odin, if I ever wreck please let my rescuers not need to stop at the coffee pot first.

There you go, intentionally hiding something and being discovered for it! I thereby allege that your deception caused the February 30th crash of Douche Flight 13 from Atlantis to Xanadu. Pay up $26 million, chucklehead. Your TV watching habits are as relevant to this crash as the carb. Pay up...

I have an instrument rating. That's why I am beating myself up, because I know that I could have both legally and proficiently flown in that soup. But get back into my field of departure? No, and that convinced me to drive. As to the hypothetical trip back not knowing where the storm line...

All, I wussed out. I made a No-Go call and thus drove my normal BJJ-VJI route instead of flying the 182. This was for yesterday 4/11/13. Darn near fell asleep driving home but did manage to make it in one piece. Details: At 0400 EDT (0800Z) I made the call. There was the big line of storms...

I fly OH to VA 251 nm each way for business. A 182 is where it is at.

Bwahahaha!!! The airport he is talking about has no instrument procedures or VASI. We're lucky it has lights at all. A neighboring airport has a VOR/DME-A that uses this field as a checkpoint about halfway between FAF and MAP. Not that his 150 had DME. @OP - Worst case, use the neighboring...

I have a similar technique, but it is good for smooth or rough air. I reduce MP to bottom of the green arc and trim nose down until I get the descent stabilized at my cruise speed. That way, I am not (yet) slowing down at all but am keeping my ETA (per ForeFlight) the same while I burn less...