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Hence your name - nice. Kudos for sharing, this can be a rough place but if you wear your thick skin you'll get good advice. Simple rule: always stick the tanks before every takeoff. Always = no exceptions. Even though you had a fuel cap leak, sticking the tanks can also catch a cap that is not...

That valve looks bad but small chance it might be salvagable? Mike Busch has a procedure to lap the valve in place. Then you fly the airplane for a few hours and check it again. That looks worth doing, maybe it can save that valve. If it doesn't and you must replace the jug, you haven't lost...

That's what I did in a similar situation a few years ago. No problem.

Good idea. Airflow provides even more effective cooling than rich mixtures. That should be no surprise, as these are air cooled engines. Climbing at Vy or slower, compared to level cruise, there is less air passing through the cowl and the angle at which it hits the cowl is not optimal. If...

A center pole table having a 3 legged base at the bottom of the pole would reduce or eliminate that problem.

Because of this I've always wondered why 3 legged tables are not standard.

I've seen this too. When I learned to fly back in 2007, I had 13 hours when I soloed, when I was ready it took 2 weeks to schedule a local DPE and I had 44 hours coming into my checkride. The hours sound low but it was not all that unusual for that time. Fast forward 17 years, now I am mentoring...

True. Before getting into aviation I used to race cars at the amateur level in SCCA. I do my own mechanical work, yet even so my total car expenses (especially on tires) turned out to be comparable to the ownership costs of my C-172. And I did not own particularly exotic cars. I still like cars...

In the short term, sure. In the long term, the vibration from running rough takes its toll not just on the engine but everything physically connected to it: mounts, alternator, etc. Exactly. The power vs. mixture curve is asymmetric. It drops off slowly rich of peak, and it drops off quickly...

This is similar to my experience buying a C-172 with a O-320-D2G engine in 2008. All tests said it was healthy at about 850 hours SMOH, though we didn't inspect the cams because doing so is too invasive. I got 9 years / 900 hours of out it, when one cylinder had low compression. Burned exhaust...

Magnetos can be reliable. We don't actually have to rebuild them every 500 hours, only inspect them. And those flying part 91 don't even have to inspect them (it's not an AD), though it is a good idea to do so. If it passes inspection, as it often does, put it back into service.

The schools & instructors I've flown with over the years had the opposite attitude. People > airplanes. My responsibility as PIC is first to people on board, only after that the airplane. Most of the time there is no conflict, what's good for one is also good for the other. This may be what...

In an emergency you don't need as much space as you might think. For a quick estimate, assume 5 G is the max accel for a crash with high survivability, and you touch down at minimum controllable airspeed of 40 kts. At 5 G you come to a stop in only 14 feet / 0.42 seconds. A small spot can make a...

I also installed mine a couple of years ago. The AI has been solid, though something similar happened to me about a month ago on a long x-country flight. The AI started showing wonky TAS and DA values, even though the OAT looked OK. I thought maybe something wrong with the air pressure line to...

Good call. So the AVMag should be out in the wing away from EMI, and it is sensitive to orientation. The AV-30C install menu setting should be selected to use it, and it needs to be calibrated. The AVMAG calibration is not just the "GYRO CAL", that's a different thing. See the latest version of...

I went through this a couple of years ago when I eliminated the vac system from my airplane and installed a pair AV-30C for AI and DG. The AI has been flawless. The DG, not so much. If you don't have the magnetometer, the DG will drift. A "good" one will drift about the same as a mechanical...

Another common limitation of umbrella policies is to cover only accidental or unintentional acts, not all lawful acts. For example, if you use force to defend your family from someone attacking you, that is a lawful act but not an accidental act. Even if the local DA gives you a medal for...

The FAA does specify the maximum distance to touch down after the aim point, perhaps that will suffice as the definition. My ancient copy of the PTS say at or within 200 feet beyond a specified point.

Something like 70% of the servers on the internet run Linux, so its security is not due to obscurity. That said, many companies do put add-on security software on Linux. But whether that is due to technical necessity or to corporate policy, is an open question.

My Linux machines are running fine, as they always do. The Windows machine that my company provides is down because they use Crowdstrike. Here's one way to fix it: Part 1: if you use Bitlocker (skip if you don't) Hold down F8 while booting to get to safe mode On the blue screen, press F8 once...