Recent content by The 170 guy

Those Grumman flyers :)

You assume they would be.

But when you buy a light twin at today's market, you put a bunch of cash in the maintenance fund. Fly and enjoy.

You must not know your filter has a bypass mode, that will allow metal pass directly to the crank bearings

There is a 182 at Anacortes that has been in storage for 20 years. It was preserved and kept and renewed every 6 months. It is in as good condition as it was 20 years ago.

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It is generally accepted they should be cremated first.

What a joke, you'll let the cam destroy the crank before you do anything?

Nothing like home for the holidays, be safe, if you can't be careful.

Beautiful time in history to be a pilot.

I think I'll use my handy cam, it was state of art ten minutes ago with a 120 gig hard drive,

Lots of misinformation and old wives tales in this thread. When you are at WOT, with the prop at highest RPM, your VSI is your horsepower meter, lean to highest reading to get best horse power. Works at any altitude, and any engine. Manufactures want you at full rich because they know that...

When you figure it out let us know, I've been doing this tail wheel thing for awhile and you'll find no two conventional gear aircraft will land the same. Most old aircraft have been bent some time in the past and tweaked to fly / land different.

Why don't you show us a 141 school that is not using 100 hour inspections?

It's an old tired POS, that Tom's been keeping going.