Recent content by Ryan Bowler

I rarely, if ever, recommend an at-home injection for sedation. I like to send the “chill protocol” home with the owner. Gabapentin the night before -and morning of- the procedure with acepromazine and melatonin being given about 30 minutes prior to the stimulation of the car ride/visit. I have...

This egg incubator may work. Not sure it passes fire code, but might be worth a try.

I went without the headliner in my 182B for a year. I didn’t miss the headliner, and had the same head clearance concerns you did.

Jeopardy formatting.

I was thinking about your post the other day when I realized you MAY be able to write off a bike... or two. I have been teaching my son how to ride a bike lately and realized there are some strong correlations to primary flight training. Slow flight and control inputs, turn radius in relation to...

It sure seems to be. Between a 60 year old plane and snail-pace billing, it seems like I always have something need attention before I even get the last squawks' bill.

The check for my gigantic annual bill cleared on Wednesday. Mechanic showed up Thursday AM to fix a leak. For about 18 hours, I didn’t owe a mechanic.

Don’t forget to have a competent IA perform a proper pre-purchase. Especially with today’s prices, it seems like anyone with an old set of logbooks will throw them on Trade-a-Log just to unload them. As an aside, is there a way to know if they were owned by a flight school?

Another big part of the equation (which is often overlooked) is the people tend to buy “more car”when it is financed. Much easier to swallow a high monthly payment than a high sales price. Instead of buying a 10k car that meets your needs, you buy a 50k car which you can afford by making...