Recent content by 40YearDream

Have some hours in the club 177B. Not a lot to what's already been said. The life-and-death AD is on the carry-through spar (fail that, airplane is salvage). Really forces the pilot to use trim - the pitch forces are heavier than a 172. Best landings I ever made were with a 220+ lb. guy in the...

I expect the 'not invented here' effect

Drove to Muncie Reese 7I2. Only a small group there. Amazing sight, well worth the 4 hour drive. The drive back to Michigan (6+ hours) was not so great. Would have flown there, but all the club airplanes were booked. Psalm 148:3 "Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise ye him, all ye stars of light."

I assume the Lansing airport is excited to get some business - it's been almost a ghost-town the times I landed there.

China is buying the technology

I always dip the tanks to measure fuel levels. One time, I left the fuel gage tube sitting on the top of the cowl (of a 172), and proceeded to taxi, runup, and take off. I heard it go, aborted the takeoff (if I remember correctly) and did a fast trip on foot back down the runway. Found it, a bit...

How do you calibrate a finger for the number of gallons in the tank? The airplanes I trained in had nearly useless fuel gages - had to 'dip' the tanks. And - great idea? throwing leaded fuel samples on the ground - ? (although, I've flown out of an airport where that was the practice)

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Since my retirement funds are not all that large, I'm thinking that (along with flying club airplanes) flying for the local CAP might be a low-cost way to stay in the air in retirement, health permitting (D.V. another 3 years away) I realize there's hoops to jump through with the CAP, but "ya...

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I think there's some fundamental technical differences: Loran had precision clock time info in what was transmitted (kinda sorta like what the GPS satellites do now) - but FM broadcast transmitters have nothing like that in what they put out. Without that timing info in the signals, using FM...

". . . a qualified instrument approach without regard to the minimum altitudes . . . ." - Huh? As a wanna-be instrument pilot, that sounds like a death wish. Go below minimums on an approach??

Possible headlines: "NTSB investigators planning to travel to crash site in early 2034" "FAA investigating non-compliance with Remote ID on R/C model flight outside of approved FRIA, considering tightened rules for drone flying."

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OP: As a wanna-be Mooney driver (only have a couple hours in the club J-model so far), what speed(s) did you use on a dead-stick approach? How did it compare to a normal landing?