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ah yes, studs. When mine failed inflight, no options were afforded to me to replace without opening the case, heck nobody would even entertain an IRAN job (low margin work). Since I didn't have the tools, time, rented willing signatory (was a certified) or workspace to tackle the job a la @Jim K...

with the caption "it was like that when I found it...." :biggrin:

lulz, you're gonna fail your color contrast test on your next medical. This place is a crimson echo chamber. In fairness to the place, all affluent-centering message boards tend to be. Further to your point, this place codes as slightly underrepresented from that norm, only due to not having...

yeah I still get stuff like this in the mail, as recently as yesterday. Airpower loves to rage-troll me; perhaps they should spend more time labeling shipped parts correctly instead of reaching out to quitters they're complicit in running out the hobby more than a year ago lol.... In my gen...

I know. I was merely piggybacking on the comment to highlight the fallacy of attempting to chastise the gubmint from the purview of business bias. Wasn't meant to reply directly to you, my apologies for the confusion.

yeah I figured the 7 seat thing was probably that one offy nothingburger with the PA-32. I was more interested in the above #6K market. ...So a few rec use C-4xx money bags numbering in the hundreds, for whom SI-hoops are not a cost object anyways. That it? Yeah, I second post diecisiete.

...In the Federal govt, payroll is 4% of US total budget spending. But let's not let facts get in the way of a good scapegoat. My neighbor hates me, guess I hate him too. Austerity is just rank sadism from the language of grievance crowd. With friends like these who needs enemies type of thing...

I could say the same thing about some of the hacks with AME and HIMS next to their last name....

So.... unpressurized airplanes (because as mentioned, pressurized airplanes are de facto eliminated by insurance usurping the regulator role from the FAA) between #6K and #12.5K. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for whoever this applies to, but I legit struggle to come up with examples that...

I don't dispute that. What I dispute the notion that it is cheaper to eat the current certified powerplant pricing vis a vis auto conversion solution, especially in light of the much vaunted "MTBF delta", which is facts not in evidence, especially in underutilized applications like recreational...

appeals to "decorum" is often done in bad faith. Just tone-policing by another name, in my lived experienced. tea emoji frog emoji.

again, if the MTBF is the concern, just treat the PSRU as a consumable wear item, and press. Again, at the FUBAR legacy powerplant price points we're dealing with, the entire auto engine suite can be treated as a wear item!

The legacy powerplant price points are so FUBAR'd right now for rec use, honestly it'd be worth the gamble on a 160-175hp viking or equivalent conversion for the RVs I'm looking at. Singular inflection point of cost for me after 13 years and 3 airplanes, and what kicked me out the hobby in 2023.

yes indeed. My penchant for the stupid party trick keeps me from realizing my full income potential in life, but username checks so.....

inventory which is being handicapped by the gatekeepy 51% rule.....

The loss of casual sale exemption keeps me away from brokers. Sucks for the seller, would have been more than happy to offer list. These things aren't that unique to justify the excise tax.

Hydraulic constant speed props aren't complicated to produce and maintain. The pricing model/cost structure is FUBAR because aforementioned lack of economies of scale of this hobby, not because of the technical *challenges to variable props in 2024 (*there aren't any). There's already electric...

It is not really a misconception on the usaf side. Not every fighter pilot who wants to stay in the cockpit meaningfully and is senior o3 junior o4, can do so. And that's in spite of the so called o4 rated shortage. Evidence? My entire hiring pool in the reserves. The irony of being junior in...

It's not just Vipers and it's not procedural either; it's just general technique for all pointy nosed (navy TACAIR exempted, they don't flare nor shift aimpoints for obvious operational reasons) aircraft in the Usaf to shoot for a 5-10ft threshold crossing height for a visual transition, leading...

Yeah, the young man had a bad night. We all have them to varying degrees, most of us don't pay the ultimate price for it though. The irony is that he probably would have survived the ground loop on the failed cable attempt (second approach), given the hindsight of the seat being broken. The...