Recent content by labbadabba

Novelty is fine until you're kicking yourself for flying at 115kts in a Mooney with a wide-open throttle

Barn find on a M20D. Looks to be in fair condition given the circumstances. Literally kicking the tires on the thing... Searched the available mod kits from Mooney and didn't see the M20D conversion kit available, does anyone still make them?

I preferred the version with drop tanks

Yeah, I keep having dreams of taking trips in the club plane but I just have so few missions where it's even practical or enjoyable (I have similar experiences flying with kiddos). It sucks that my airport is a 50 minute drive from my house so that adds even more time to a trip overall...

I feel like this is somewhat redundant since if I'm writing a post on knowing when to quit, I've probably answered my own question... Yes, and... I don't want to! I worked so hard on my ratings and have always dreamed of being a pilot. I'd love a pilot career but with special needs kiddos in...

MKC doesn't have a ton of small planes on the ramp but no other aircraft were significantly damaged. Interestingly enough, none of the schools' Cessnas flipped. Only the Pipers.

The FBO removed them completely so even if the school wanted to tie them down, they couldn't. The school is a tenant of the FBO and utilizes their services. To what degree the FBO is responsible for aircraft on their ramp is up to the lawyers but to have a completely empty hangar (except for...

A prominent FBO at KMKC that has already receiving bad press recently has a flight school tenant that uses their ramp and services. They removed tie downs from the ramp to make the jets happy. They also happen to be hosting a hangar dance and as of this morning, the hangar was completely...

I'm still a happy user of FltPlan Go on iPad and Android

I haven't taken the leap yet simply because I mostly fly the HotStart TBM 930 which is still only on 11 (I think). I would LOVE more accurate weather and the ability to update my databases for the G1000 but other than that I'm just fine with 11 for IFR practice.

Busted down to a butter bar

I've pondered this EXACT question...

After they pay their taxes.....

This was about the only thing that was going to get me to buy-in to the Wings of Hope Raffle. Used to be 3 tickets for 150 for 3000 total tickets. Now it's 275 for 5000 tickets. For that kind of bump I'll wait for a 182 over a run out Musketeer.

Both.