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Is there such a thing? I've only been to Osh once, 2019, we flew in early Thursday morning the week of, not the week before. We landed at about 7:10 am and the traffic was actually pretty light. This year I'm planning on going earlier, like Sunday, just wondering what to expect for traffic...

We just got home from our trip, my wife and I celebrated 30 yrs together on Jan 26th. This will be a quick trip report and pirep of the places we visited. We flew from KOTG (home base) to KBWG the first day, only about a 3.5 hour flight, but wanted to get out of the midwest before a snow storm...

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/12/06/small-plane-crashes-in-southwestern-minnesota-investigation-underway/ Low IFR around here all morning.

We (my wife and 23yr old daughter) were looking for something fun to do, just an overnight, some good food and a little shopping and site seeing. We decided on Kansas City, I hadn't been there so I did a little research and picked the Country Club Plaza area. We stayed at the Country Club Plaza...

An airport close to home has avgas now for $3.40/gal. Got me thinking, does anyone prepay when the price drops? I'm not even sure if any FBO's do that?

Went up flying yesterday and my wife came along. Nowhere to go so we just buzzed around for about an hour. I don't do that often, even though I love to fly I prefer going to a destination, right now even if you go somewhere there is nothing to do once you get there. My wife took a few pictures...

I installed a G5 HSI and did some other panel upgrades, so I have these that can go. King KI 206 worked perfectly when removed.....$1000 Mitchell directional gyro 4000 c-6, worked fine until vacuum pump failed, about one month before removal.....$150 King KMA 24 audio panel...$200 PM1000ii...

I got a chance to fly with my new upgrades today. They just got done, what was added; G5 HSI, PSE 450A audio panel, and a Guardian Avionics Ipad mount for my 11" Ipad Pro. I flew it today, and found no squawks. I love how it turned out!

Is anyone using a portable XM radio in there plane? You can buy a portable XM radio receiver for about $50, subscriptions are only $4.99/month (1 yr promotion pricing). I can't find any that have bluetooth options, but they have aux port out. All the aviation solutions for XM hardware are...

I'm planning on making my first trip to Oshkosh this year. Because of work we cannot arrive until Thursday, which I hear a lot of people will be leaving by then. So, my question is what are the busy/not so busy days and times to arrive? With a lot of potential departing traffic on Thursday...

So I've really reached my goals as far as ratings go, private then on to getting my IFR. I'm 53, no interest in becoming a CFI, I'd be terrible at it, I have ZERO patients. No interest in getting into passenger transport. No interest in becoming a spray plane pilot. Just questioning if it has...

I passed my written in March of 2017, but because of work and life I didn't really start doing any work with a CFII until that fall. I did about 15 hrs with that instructor, then again work and life, and some avionics upgrades in my plane got in the way of continuing. So my written was set to...

I removed this from my plane when I installed a new engine monitor in my TB20. Worked perfectly when removed about a month ago. Would come with all the wiring harness, fuel flow transducer and FM Temp module as pictured. This is the model that will interface with your GPS. $400

My latest addition and subtraction from my panel. Taking out all the old engine gauges and adding a MVP 50 to the top of the center stack on my TB20. I'm hoping to have it all done in a couple weeks. The install will be done by then, but may be waiting on the new Ei magnetic float sensors to...

Looking for opinions on removing all the old engine gauges. I'll include a picture of my current panel. I'm having an ei MVP50P installed, so it's a certified replacement for all my engine gauges. It's going in the lower portion of the center stack, I'll be taking out the Garmin 496. On the...

I'm looking for advise and/or possibly referrals from POA members. My daughter is going to be graduating from the U of MN this summer, she'll be done the end of August. She has set her sites on living in the D.C. area, but we (being from MN) no nobody and have no connections there. She wants to...

If your in the upper midwest and are into WW2 era warbirds I would highly recommend this museum. It's located at KGDB in Granite Falls, 3 hangers full of WW2 displays. All of the planes that have the wheels on the ground are fully restored to flyable condition. I flew my father there, from...

We just got back from a trip from MN to the Bahamas in our TB20. Flying the entire trip VFR is a challenge, so you have to be ready to make a few changes along the way. We left MN Friday March 9th, flew from KOTG to KSTP to pick up our daughter, she worked until 5 that afternoon but I'd decided...

If you were given one plane of your choice what would it be? Take into the decision your mission, so it kind of as to fit that. My mission is mainly ~250nm cross country into smaller (3000ft) paved strips. 2-3 people and a golden retriever. My dream plane for my mission would be a Diamond...

At what point do you just say it's to cold? When I was doing my flight training my CFI didn't like to go when it was below about 20 F, said he thought it was harder on the air cooled engines. The 10 day forecast here is southern MN only has 1 day with highs about 20, lot's of days the highs will...