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So I am at the airport getting ready for a flight and I hear a few guys I know pretty well hammering on an individual we all knew who disappeared while trophy hunting in Siberia. Never one to miss a chance to play the devils advocate I say "Yes he slid off a mountain and got himself killed...

I have now logged over 600 hours since getting my wings back. Burned up the 50 hours of 182 time I bought, then flew the heck out of the S. Dec. , lots of what I called unusual conditions and upset training(my wife said no aerobatics). Earned my IFR and ME in a leased DA42 flew it for the rest...

Did a couple monster cross countries in the rented 182 while the wife and kids went to her mothers, went everywhere from private grass to KMDW, all while going no where. As of yesterday I have logged just over 60 fresh hours, feels pretty good again. I start training for an instrument rating...

Acknowedgement of both absolute and relative risk level. The experimentals I have seen run the gamut from well thought out and wonderfully constructed to those that require battery voltage to run, but have unsupported wiring harnesses held together by crimp connectors. When it comes up the...

Another reasonable option to consider but I am currently a long way from being comfortable single pilot in a jet. If I remember correctly Thurman Munson was PIC but had his CFI in the right seat at the time of his Citation crash and he still ended up dead. Interesting question did come up in...

This is true. However it is not true that all engineering solutions are equally sound. I have spoken with a number of experimental builders and pilots over the years who would do well to remember two things: 1) While we are all most assuredly entitled to our own opinions we are not entitled to...

I have never seen a Citation I-SP with any access to the other side of the aft cabin bulkhead. The ones I have been in, all looked like this one http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/CESSNA-CITATION-ISP/1977-CESSNA-CITATION-ISP/1255949.htm with a bench seat in front of...

True enough, but lack of a functional reasonably easy to service lav is a deal breaker for business use. I can tell my boys to go in a bottle but not my consulting team.

Stress corrosion cracking is not to be trifled with, both 4037 and 8740 based AN bolts are not happy when under stress in the presence of chloride ions. Their lifespan decreases rapidly if they are installed and loaded such that the material is subjected to stress near the proportionality limit.

Scratch that looking through the ASRS database pressurization problems appear to be the single most common and ongoing issue with this airframe.

Westwind, Hawker 700, and Sabreliner are definitely not single pilot certified. I wonder what kind of a deal could be made on this http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/PIAGGIO-P-180-AVANTI/1993-PIAGGIO-P-180-AVANTI/1269259.htm now that the owner won't fly it. After...

Renting a T182T in essentially new condition for $150/hr wet but I bought and prepaid for 50 hours. FBO normally charges $200/hr.

Say I bought a Phenom 100. I was under the impression I couldn't even log the right seat time without the appropriate Multi-engine, Instrument, and Type ratings, or am I wrong? Plus I can buy five Hawker 700s or Westwinds for what the Phenom will cost and I lose two seats.

I am waiting on the blessing from the sharks but I am confident the consulting entity will be able to defend the position that it exists to provide consulting services and that owning and operating the aircraft is a secondary function. I will have a personal sevices contract with the consulting...

Five interlocking paths going on here. 1) I am logging time again with an instructor in a rented C182, 16 hours through yesterday. 2) I am looking for a Super Decathlon to buy to hone my stick and rudder skills. 3) CFI will ride with me for free in whatever if I will let him use the...

Agreed. The jet will have to be fully insured due its mission profile and the consulting entity will not be reimbursed for costs of insurance.

I won't be flying any of the jets under consideration.

Wholly owned by the consulting entity which is going to be a newly created LLC. I did check and they said whether or not the aircraft in question is part 135 doesn't matter for their purposes. I could put a Hawker 700 on with a 135 operator at my home field if the engines were on MSP. He is...

Good advice as always thanks. I know a local company that got bathed on their Lear when it was new due a blizzard of service bulletins. It seemed like Lear finished the engineering in the field, some bulletins were of dubious value for their mission profiles and could/should have been ignored...

Either you are eating in better restaurants or don't have swarms of broke college students hanging around.