Recent content by MBDiagMan

I’ve gotten liability only on one of my planes for a few years no with no pushback from the insurance company. I will be 75 next month and this is on the retract. The premium quote increased 400% a few years ago so I asked how much for liability. It cost about 12% of the full coverage price.

Which ones of those are certified and which ones are kit/experimental?

Passive headset? When I started flying, a passive headset would have been a wonderful luxury. We used a microphone and a speaker. It’s one reason I can now barely hear thunder. Of course that cooling unit on the radar I worked on in the Army, shooting, loud rock music in my youth, and other...

If you’re on a budget, take a Dave Clark 13.2 basic headset and spend an hour and a little money for an ANR conversion kit. I’ve been using one for probably five years or so and it works great. When I’m with friends or family in their planes using a Bose, Lightspeed, etc., the only difference...

Maybe I’m not taking your meaning, but it sounds as if you believe in the “everyone gets a trophy” mantra.

Hey! Those climate controlled rooms can easily get a few degrees too cold or too hot! Besides, on a military base, a flight suit looks really cool when you are seen with it on at the commissary. Seriously though, I have respect for the good drone pilots and the award in the original post is...

The hoopla in the community leading up to the eclipse was insane. We were in the totality path. $100 hotel rooms went for $600 and there were zero vacancies. It was being said that our town of 15,000 would swell to 45,000 and I was made fun of because I openly stated that it couldn’t even get...

If it’s not flown in six months, it’s not an active aircraft. Make room for those who fly. Let storage take place somewhere other than our airports where those who actively fly need hangar space. Six months is the number at our airport, but maybe that number is different, but there DEFINITELY...

Our airport manager won’t put up with it. He knows very well what is in those hangars and what is flown. At about six months of non activity he starts notifying them. At a year, they’re gone. I’ve seen him do it more than once. I love my airport.

I believe that having non aviation items in the hangar is fine as long as there are airworthy aircraft that are flown and purchasing fuel in there too.

Says anyone with common sense and respect for the intentions of the airport.

I do believe that FINAL assembly would be legitimate in an airport hangar. That would be a short amount of time and most people wouldn’t have space to put the wings on in their garage or personal shop. Even if they did, how will they transfer it to the airport?

During the assembly phase, it is the same as having a hangar without owning an airplane. The hangars are there for operation of aircraft, not storage or assembly of anything. After you get it together and if it flies, that is when it needs to be in a hangar with access to fuel and a runway.

Is it planned to ultimately be airworthy?

I pray that this was written as a joke.