Recent content by Gary Ward

Cool deal! I got to have it on paper in front of me, Yup I am getting old. lol

Well used SM that is in a 3 ring binder. - It's a reprint at least some of it, probably all of it. The paper feels like the paper in my 172 SM? All pages have 3 holes so easily could be put in a 3 ring binder. The yellow pages are just what you suggested Dan I think? It appears to be written...

The SM that I got with my 1980 172 looks like it is 44 years old or so. The black plastic 3 ring binder is barely hanging in there and some of the pages are getting yellow and brittle. It is nice that I can lay them flat, not possible when it is bound together. Still very thankful to have it. I...

I insisted that the SM came with my 172. First he wanted to keep it but I talked him into it. He also had a parts manual that he kept, now he has passed and his whole hangar was sold a couple years ago. So I don’t know what happened to it? Years ago I insisted we get one for every work car or...

A buddy of mine found this laying in our FBO with a hand written note on it that said free a week or two ago. He thought of me and "grabbed it and high tailed out of there" His words. I finally saw him today and he gives it to me. I was floored and couldn't believe how nice of shape it is in...

Lightening has been working here all this past week as we have had our shared of thunder storms. Are you having trouble while online or when FF is getting it's info from ADS-B in?

If you have your old engine on the ground then it would not be hard to weld up a stand for it ahead of time. This is a stand for a aluminum V8 hemi engine. I would consider using it for starting point. Also bread/bun dolly's are handy to make engine crates out of. Bread dolly's are everywhere.

If you use tires be sure to remove the rim. I know somebody had to say it!

If it is decades old I would install a new drain valve with fresh o rings if that what they still use to seal it.

I would take a wood skid and a few old tires and chock it as needs be. My lycoming came on a big chunk of Styrofoam glued to a wood skid.

I have been using the tug since 2018 and I fly a lot 3-7 days a week so it get's used a lot. I pull the plane the same every time so I don't think it was too sharp of a turn. The Best tug is A3 so I am using it by hand and subconsciously I try not to turn it on a dime. I knew for a while it was...

I think it broke because it got loose.

I am aware of that but no I didn’t. The old one slide out by hand and the new one slide in and I didn’t touch the plane in between. Knew the weight of the plane was holding it together. I have had the fairing on and off pretty many times. I top off the nitrogen about every 16-18 months. It must...

Last week while using the tug to pull the plane out of the hangar and I hear a crack while in a turn. What was that? Unclamp the tug and the nut, bolt and washers fall on the ground. Oh oh ! Can’t fly it like that and I will be lucky to get it back into the hangar by myself and make a 90 degree...

Exactly right for me, scheduled to fly 3 days a week at the end right before the PPL checkride in school planes. I think was 500 for a PPL check ride in 2016? Then the instrument took 4 months to get the weather to be good enough to fly the check ride. I had to fly with my CFII for another...