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And speaking of Pawnees, last year I had a very strange deformation of the left elevator that I didn't notice until pre-flight the...

We have two Pawnees, a C and a D model. One of them (I never remember WHICH one) has longer rudder horns, which require less rudder...

Cape Cod and the Islands can get pretty busy all summer. We had a house there until two years ago - right on the water in Phinney's...

Being from New England I'd look into Maine and/or Vermont. It's a very pleasant time of the year and a relaxed atmosphere. We live in...

One thing that is sometimes overlooked with the CFI pathway is how much you actually LEARN by teaching, as long as you're diligent in...

In the Cub I never use full flaps in a short field landing with gusting winds. It doesn't have flaps.

Yikes! That's a rough story. I'm skeptical of any skydiving operation, and turned one down that was just a few miles away from my...

No. I'm not saying that. I'd suggest spending some time with your instructor - and perhaps ask a senior instructor to join him. Take...

And speaking of Dave Barry, I have to share this momento from a column he wrote in the Miami Herald years ago and claimed my name could...

"Calories are units used by scientists to measure how good food tastes." Dave Barry

I look at the commercial certificate as something like a diploma for higher education, and I like to think that everyone who has one met...

I don't either. How do YOU do that? It sounds like a variation of, "It's OK to lie as long as you don't get caught", although it's...

Out of 500+ practical tests I've conducted, I'm guessing... perhaps 100 have been commercial? One time, had an applicant with...

I also like the scimitar props, but probably my favorite of the collection is this rare Bleriot X1 prop for a 25 HP Anzani engine, circa...

Yeah, and some of the earliest props had this curved shape based on the Wright's theory that the blades should act like two wings...