Recent content by keen9

If you want to go higher end, Nations Photo Lab is where I go for really high quality prints for a reasonable price. Your 10yr probably won't care, but if it is for you to also enjoy an amazing print . . .

That is interesting. I had to go look. Dupo is too close (in the current class D), so that is why it isn't used anymore! The Billiken students tend to make nice brief calls like they should. The other flight schools at KCPS . . . not so much though still not too bad. The practice area is still...

The fumes are what is highly flammable. Also, why @Racerx suggests a couple of days of air drying to get to a non-flammable environment in the tank before scoping it.

Not much there. There is a small FBO building with bathrooms and cheap self-serve fuel. I haven't heard of any event planning there. I'm planning KPCD because they did a nice job for the last one.

You didn't mention the type of airplane (useful load being the important factor). If you need to save on weight, go for the backpacking tent. If you have lots of excess load capability, I'd go for something you can stand up in, maybe from Coleman if you don't expect to be a regular camper, or...

If you want another rejection or higher quote. Avemco sucks for experimental.

I carry a spare . . . and that came in handy once.

Have you pulled back that boot the check the wires? I had my alternator cable work loose from its connector. Its a big fat wire hung out where there is a lot of vibration.

You can go out and get the full experience all around STL. KCPS has all kinds of odd angles of lights not aligned with the runways that with good winds aloft will make you feel all out of whack for what direction you are actually traveling, you got the nice bluff turbulence at SUS. SET can give...

Are you at Spirit of St. Louis? Spirit with the winds out of the south is always an adventure.

Not completely exciting, but there is a Charles Lindbergh crash site not too far off of Rt 66 in Illinois. The story is more interesting than the site, but it is just a short drive off.

Do you have a method to obtain that?

Downtown St. Louis has gotten a lot worse in recent years. The randomness of the crime has made "just avoid" certain areas a lot less useful. I wouldn't say don't visit, but I'd also very much not recommend walking around late at night unless it is for a well policed event like just after a...

I've been out of MO for quite a while, but the personal property tax on about a $20k car was $200-300/yr 15 years ago. There are a lot of MO residents at KCPS who enjoy not paying personal property tax to MO on their airplanes.

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