Recent content by iamtheari

The J-3 Cub is a panel declutter option. Molon labe.

What the next generation of the G3X Touch really needs is an Ethernet connection to other Garmin avionics to support Database Sync. But in the meantime, I hope they put their time into making the database update software more reliable instead of bigger screen sizes. I think I spend an hour a...

30 posts and no mention of section 1031? @CJones, you need to get some advice from a smarter group of people. (Not saying it's a great idea to do a 1031 exchange, but you don't want to find out the day after you close on the deal that you left the perfect stone unturned.) As far as eviction...

Accident Case Study: Conflict in the Cockpit was just published based on this crash

I did that when I was considering a Navajo. My instructor was an A330 captain with a prior life flying checks in Navajos. The quote was obscene in dollars and even dumber in requirements. They wanted me and the instructor to both get simulator training, and I could only find one staffed...

I got my RV-14 transition training in coastal Oregon. But the best flying to do in that entire state is hangar flying the Spruce Goose.

You can just go naked, no insurance at all. Liability-only coverage may be just as out of reach as a full policy for a young (or old), low-time, newly minted (or rusty) multi pilot. But that’s just one way to get 200 hours. You can also rent for 200 hours, pay an MEI for 200 hours of dual, or...

I had about 580 hours total time when I started flying multi. The insurance quotes were all over the board on price and qualifications. My broker came through with a carrier that she said she doubted would even quote me, and they were the lowest price while all they asked for qualifications was...

I haven’t flown east-west across the country, but I have gone north-south a few different directions. There are some phenomenal sights to take in from the air. Mountains and storms are beautiful to see past your wingtip. The wildly varying landscape of the Colorado Plateau never ceases to amaze...

I recommend talking to these fine folks: http://www.planeflighttraining.com/arizona-satellite.html

For the 310, the "full de-ice" system is heated propellers, pneumatic boots on both wings outboard of the engines, pneumatic boots on the horizontal stabilizer, and an alcohol sprayer on the windshield. The FIKI system adds pneumatic boots between the fuselage and engines, I think adds pneumatic...

The longest single leg I have flown in the 310 was 860 nm from Texas to North Dakota, which took 4.8 hours that day so I must have had a slight tailwind that day. It was a long day, hand-flown IFR in IMC on both ends and above the clouds over the four intervening states. Based on my flight...

No need. There should be regular enough examples of the subject matter to keep it on the first page for the foreseeable future.

Are you saying that proctologists are evil?

That reminds me of the time I moved into an apartment and the utility company said that some woman had an account under my social security number, so I had to go to their office to deal with the paperwork. The woman at the utility company office told me, “If it’s any consolation, she has really...