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I owned a c206 for 40 years and stopped calculating weight and balance unless common sense suggested it might be a problem. It never was and I usually flew with full fuel in the long range tanks.

It's hard to give it up, especially when the assumptions about your cognition are unfounded and arbitrary.

N "Need" should be seldom. "Option" should be always.

If nothing else you're burning fuel from the heavy wing. (Most checklists just advise to use "fullest tank"). If you go around during some task saturation emergency the fuel tank selection is one less task to trip you up while you sort things out, and the all while the W&B is trending to a more...

Nice a approach and landing, though - under the circumstances.

Simply landing gear up does not need to be reported unless there has been substantial damage; “Substantial damage means damage or failure which adversely affects the structural strength, performance, or flight characteristics of the aircraft, and which would normally require major repair or...

He might have realized that you can't just run out and build your own hangar because the existing ones cost too much.

I'm a big fan of "clear" followed by a 5 to 10 second pause while looking at the area that's supposedly clear. The fact is that in the overwhelming majority of human prop strikes involve an engine that has been running for much longer than the few seconds allowed after yelling ''Clear...

Too bad I just sold mine, owned for 40 years and I LOVED it. There was plenty of panel space, so I kept the vacuum back up along with most of the original instruments. http://pics.woodenpropeller.com/images/206panel%20cr.jpg

Well, succumbing to family pressures I went ahead with an application for the Wright Brothers' Master Pilot Award, which arrived a few weeks ago. I was reminded of my 50 years of flying with no accidents, incidents or violations and many fond memories in airplanes, gliders, and floatplanes. I...

The reason I did that study was because I happened to have parked next to a C172 that I had previously owned. I inquired about the new owner and learned that he was in the hospital having been seriously injured in a propeller accident. The owner had loaned the plane to a friend, who lost the...

Not too much to report. We’re in Greece now on a luxury vacation before things go really downhill, so we think the treatments have helped.

The startle response can be due to anything that was not expected to happen, but is particularly dangerous with anything happening close to the ground. Pilots like to believe that they can override it and practice at altitude (e.g. stall recovery), but what you're practicing for isn't...

Do we know for sure if they even left ground effect?

If anyone can use two Garmin manuals (G500 and G750), send me your contact info and a little cash for postage and they'll be sent to you. David Bahnson, 612 Woodward Road, Mendon, VT 05701

I guess the first thing a flight crew should do (and be trained to do) when offered cookies is to get the passenger's ID, take a photo, then have the cookies tested. That's got to be a very serious crime with a long jail term if the food was spiked.

"Can I give you a hand moving your plane?"

While it's not common, mid air collisions don't always result in fatalities. True story - years ago I was driving the golf cart used to retrieve gliders after landing. I noticed fragments of what turned out to be aircraft pieces dropping around me, only to find that one of our gliders had...

I had disc surgery about 35 years ago and several epidural injections for spinal stenosis since then. Other than a litte period of self grounding reported on the next medical, I've never had a problem with certification. I will note that I never took ANY narcotics during the entire time and...

Yes. You know them? The web site is up normally now, but last month there was a notice about an accident shutting down operations. At the time it seemed like a permanent change, but evidently that was incorrect.