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I have a ‘78 Archer with 11k hours. I’m in the same boat. Old avionics, and looking for some cool add ons to make life easier. Being realistic, nothing I do to this plane is going to up the resale value. Any upgrades I’m doing strictly for me. To make my flying safer and my life easier. I’m...

I’m a new owner myself and purchased a ‘78 Archer with the reason being the cabin extension and fairings for that year and onward. All of my time was in Cherokee cruisers and warriors and the additional 20hp and 100+lbs of useful load were appealing especially in an aircraft I’m already...

For minor reasons really. The display on the P-1000 is larger. And it fits right into a 3” hole, so a cleaner appearance and quicker install. The EI is a 2 1/4” sized instrument and would require a spacer or faceplate of some sort to fit where my tach is now. The 800 vs 1300 tach time is...

I use a digital logbook, the one that comes with foreflight. Super easy for plugging in times. Especially when you own and it’s all your own hours you have to enter, it remembers what the last entry was. It also helps me to remember currency and if I need to go flying. And if anyone needs a...

My annual is due in October and I’ve decided to go with the P-1000. I have a tach that’s placard to read 200 RPM low. It seems to be messing with my performance calculations. To get the numbers I work out, the tach is basically at the red line which is a very unnerving sight. And if I dial it...

I hope he names it Nakatomi airport. “Nakatomi Tower...”

I’m in the same situation. I scheduled my ADS-B install for November. I was going to with the GDL-84 with Flightstream 110 for my KT-76a. But for the same price I can get a Stratus ESGi and I think the installation cost would actually be cheaper. I’ve also decided to go with a new audio panel...

There are no absolutes. You think kids come out of journalism school wanting to knock on the doors of parents who lost their kid? You think cops took the job to give speeding tickets? There are crap parts of every job. But you do it because there are great parts. The way it works is we can only...

As a journalist who has covered these kinds of incidents and has been in exactly that situation, it isn’t a sign of disrespect. Especially if the police are slow to notify the family. That should have been their first move. If reporters find out faster with the limited resources we have, then...