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here is one data point for mileage with a 2015 F-150. Average never reset. Includes a fair amount of off-road around our farm. The little engine tows our 22ft boat ok, a bigger engine would be nice on rare occasions but it gets the job done, and when not towing it's a whole lot more economical.

actually the IL aircraft tax situation is not as bad as many states. You pay the sales tax once (minus any sales tax already paid to another state) and then it's just a nominal registration fee, no "use tax" every year. It's a little surprising IL hasn't caught onto the use tax game since they...

anyone been to Bethany Missouri lately ? A/FD says runway has loose rocks, wondering how bad it is really ?

The road is not flat or smooth either. It has cars on it. If you choose the road you're basically saying you'll choose to put bystanders at risk in order to try and lessen the damage to your airplane.

My understanding (I'm no expert): in theory you see more traffic since you can receive the 1090 directly from airplanes whereas you only get the 978 of you happen to be near a plane that is ads/b out to trigger the ground stations to make the broadcast. My observation has been that this doesn't...

available just down the street although the price is a little high. It's come down some, currently ~2.50

I see plenty of choices that are preferable to the road.

Seems like that thing has been advertised for sale forever, they must be getting desperate

Hate to 2nd guess, but looks like there are viable spots next to that road to have put it down rather than on the road itself

therein lies the problem. If you slow a baron down to 165kts it's going to be using <18gph

because the seller is having a wet dream. After it sits a few more months maybe he'll slash that price to something that could encourage some offers. In the meantime if you have $70k to spend you can get a pretty good baron and go a whole lot faster with better reliability.

don't feel bad, waiting to turn 16 i racked up over 300 hours before solo. I'm probably the slowest learner on the planet by that criteria

their (our) goal is simply to camp together with people that we know. I love vintage and hate the N40, the only way to get me to the N40 is to camp with those folks.

haven't decided whether we'll do the bonanzas-to-Oshkosh on sat and camp with that group in the N40, or fly in solo on sunday and camp in vintage. We've done both and each has it's good points.

The most consistent thing about every generation is that they think the one before them had it made. Self pity is not productive. If you really are 20 years old then you have the greatest resource of all - whole career in front of you. Wise investments now will pay off huge for you in for...