Recent content by frcabot

Bounced landings don't count as multiple touch and goes. As far as comparing the SR22 to an SUV, I think it's more like a refined sports car. Same with the Cessna 400/Ttx

Not if it ends up taking multiple hours. I’m right now considering an A&P in Santa Rosa at $95/hr and an avionics guy named Kevin also at Santa Rosa at $105/hr. The avionics guy sounds really good and caring and he believes that it could be a really quick fix. I don’t have any reviews about the...

But did you use the chute?

Just called Susanville. They are $95/hr and can’t see me until April 11th. That, combined with the fact that there is no easy way to get home, rules them out.

Thanks. I’ll call now. Only issue is that if it takes more than a day, don’t know how I will get back to the bay.

OK obviously no one knows a good, cheap inexpensive and efficient mechanic anywhere in California. So let's open it up to neighboring states as well. Surely there is at least one person in all of Oregon, California, Arizona and Nevada who can recommend a single mechanic?

I am having an issue with a push to talk button and likely a broken vacuum pump in a Mooney M20J. These seem like simple problems and I don't want to pay the LASAR/Top Gun shop rates for an MSC which are $110-120/hour. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good, cheap, efficient A&P in the...

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When you hear hooves, don't go looking for zebras. There aren't a million and one explanations for a 90 degree bank and uncontrolled descent into terrain. Of the ones that exist, a stall is the most probable and the one that accounts for the greatest number of such accidents. I don't think...

Busting minimums down to 0? And how would that explain the witness accounts about wings shaking from side to side and "dropping from the sky"? Granted, witness accounts are notoriously unreliable, but if they're true shaking wings is indicative of a stall.

I can see it being incredibly useful with a GNS 430/530 since that doesn't have airway support. The GTN 650/750 series does, however, making inputting routes much, much easier. Still, for $2K, I can program it in myself. The truth is that bluetooth support really should have been built-in to...

Hey, I never disagreed with anyone. I find all of you guys super helpful when it comes to the mechanical stuff, which is way over my head. My goal is to be as knowledgeable as many of you. (Although, it does seem that opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one :-D).

You think it's worth the extra $1K just to have that connectivity? The problem is that as a backup AHIS, it kind of fails. If you lose electric in your plane, you're not going to have the backup AHIS or interconnectivity working on your iPad. Whereas if you get a stratus or GDL 39, both of which...

I modified post with new info just received: "Edit: Spoke with Ben at Corona Engines (who is very, very helpful). He says the log entry doesn't indicate that a bottom overhaul was done, just a repair. A bottom overhaul involves replacing/overhauling the camshaft, which it doesn't look was...

Correct, A3B6D has the dual mags but the difference in cost at Corona Engines, for example, is like $4K or more. Not sure that's worth the difference.