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Amen! "Two competing unleaded high-octane fuels are now on the market. Isn’t that what everyone wanted?" https://fly.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uc%5EcnFmhrSaq3hDc0Bvqk8m00vbPzHR0r%5Bnna2k Summary: "The events of the past week make me wonder what, if any, place ASTM actually has in all of this. If...

Here are some comparable fuel prices in the south Bay Area on 3-Nov-2024 (per ForeFlight)...

As said many times already... "fly often". This makes sense from a pilot enjoyment standpoint, but is even MORE IMPORTANT for the health of the aircraft. Someone (might have been Mike Busch) once said: "If the Hobbs meter is to reflect the aging of the engine, rather than registering the...

Once you File a VFR flight plan in ForeFlight, there's a button right there to Activate that flight plan. At the end of the flight, you can click the Close button to close that flight plan. No need at all to get ahold of FSS.

My SOP for Annual: -- commit to pay the shop the pre-agreed fixed price for the "inspection" part of the annual ONLY, requiring that the output of the Inspection is a detailed written list of every single "discrepancy" and a cost estimate (parts, labor) to resolve each item -- I then (in my case...

Did ADSB-Exchange do any better? https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a6842b&lat=39.959&lon=-75.676&zoom=10.3&showTrace=2024-10-06&trackLabels It all depends on who has public receivers closest to the action.

Neither left or right seat needed to have their heads in an iPad... while their eyes were scanning outside, audible alerts (bearing, relative altitude, distance) would have been triggered by the ADS-B In to both the intercom (likely a G1000, G500, or G3X) and iPad. I do notice from the track...

Respectfully... seems this indeed was 'caused' by the improper pattern entry... but it could (almost certainly) have been avoided by ADS-B Out in the Swift.

... also the shape of the base leg and the acute base-to-final seems unusual to me.

I'd disagree on the "one can 'feel'"... IMHO, the spring-loaded stick of the Cirrus masks much of the "feel" that one gets from a direct (cable or push rod) connection with the control surfaces.

As Mark says... ^^ This ^^... you'll need to engage APR to capture the Glideslope/Glidepath as you come into the FAF. Graphically...

Just to remind everyone... there is at least one progressive piston GA manufacturer... full FADEC is found in the Diamond DA40NG, DA42, DA50, and DA62 models (all with diesel engines burning JetA). Wayne

I realize that the following will be called out as a "crutch"... but it's a crutch I often shamelessly use and benefit from:

I agree with @eman1200 ... it's the iOS "three finger double tap". You'll wonder how you lived without it!!

Yep. Furthermore, George even has a suggested fix for UND/UL94 (i.e. reduce timing to 20-22 deg). And no one paid GAMI to do this detonation testing of UL94 and Eagle/EBTE!

I encourage everyone to view the important part in the video that Martin posted -- namely regarding DETONATION -- that begins at 25:37. This compares the detonation possibility of 3 fuels... G100UL, UL94, and the Eagle/EBTE. Pretty conclusive IMHO that only G100UL is "detonation-improbable"...

A commenter to Martin's video provided:

@nauga, I have to admit I don't know which (pressure altitude or GPS altitude) the ADS-B tracking sites (FlightAware, FlightRadar24, ADSBExchange) are using. The track display site FlySto.net in this case got a kml file output from FlightAware, so again I don't know which altitude FlightAware...

The data trail is as follows: -- the aircraft broadcasts ADS-B Out which includes GPS location, ground speed, GPS altitude, etc. -- [the aircraft in this case being a recent Cirrus writes to the SD Card a whole bunch more data... e.g. pitch, bank, IAS, altitude MSL, engine data, etc, etc. -- if...

@Flying Keys, I took the FlightAware track into FlySto.net and looked at the descent on the final approach course. Here's a link to the interactive FlySto graphics. I got ~5 miles out by scaling up the visible runway length of 5200'. And below a screenshot: