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Got a rather strongly worded letter from the FAA telling me I "may" be in violation of 47.41. I have sold numerous aircraft, and I didn't even know, until this most recent sale, that this existed: § 47.41 Duration and return of Certificate. (a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration, AC...

Been on a youtube kick recently, and came across this video. My first experience with piloting my own craft was when I was in high school, after I bought my own hang glider. I grew up in the Michigan flat-land area, so most of my flights were 30 seconds or less off of an old abandon ski hill...

So I’m on a cross country, landed in the middle of nowhere for gas, and on restart noticed I have some sort of failure in my alternator/ charging system (0 on the alt meter /don’t have a volt meter). It’s currently dark out so I’m grounded for the night, and I’m thinking that getting a mechanic...

Not an accident, but almost. Especially relevant to me right now, as I just missed a powered parachute the other day. I was flying into the sun at 4500 MSL (3500 AGL) and I just missed it off my left wing.

Confession time: when I log into this site, and see a locked thread, I go right to it! I loooove the locked threads! They really bring me joy, and I don't know why, but they do! Then I realize I can't participate, and I get bummed. I think I need help. LTA, locked threads anonymous, here I...

Found an Arrow that checked all the boxes, picking it up tonight. A few observations along with some comparisons with the last plane (Cherokee): --Decent cruise speed, even beating most Arrows. This one is particularly clean and well maintained, with some performance mods, so that may help...

So in my nightly searches of Barnstormers, TAP, etc, I came across an ad with this shot. I'm not sure it makes me want to buy the plane. I guess it does say, "Current owner trusts both the autopilot and big sky theory".

I made an offer on a plane the other day, and since I'm attempting to buy a plane for much more than any plane I've owned in the past (by a factor of over x3), I'm trying to do everything "by the book". The planes I've purchased in the past: no pre-buy, no contract, etc., and I bought them...

So in my search for a new plane, I've come across this Piper Arrow: https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+Engine+Piston&make=PIPER&model=ARROW+IV&listing_id=2395462&s-type=aircraft The ad has no price listed (which typically irks me to begin with), but its a very clean...

Any of you have a sector, approach, or tower that has a particularly friendly controller that really makes you enjoy talking to them? For me, it’s the tower at JXN. Super friendly guy on the weekends…so much so, that last time I was there (yesterday) my girlfriend @KayDeeW asked me, “Is there...

Since my claustrophobic Mooney debacle, a nice Lance is under my consideration (thanks @eman1200 for the suggestion). Its a 1977, N/A, well equipped for IFR, even has A/C. What I'm wondering is how it compares with 4 place / 200 hp aircraft as far as annuals, maintenance, etc. Same? A little...

...but then I flew one, and YIKES! NOT FOR ME! I looked at a nice for sale M20J (actually bought an airline ticket for the next day, and went from Michigan to Texas in less than 24 hours after the ad posting). Shame on me for never flying (or even sitting in) in a Mooney before "picking" one...

Haven't posted here in a few years (been busy with a new business after retiring from my old job). Just sold my '66 Piper Cherokee, and the market really is INSANE, so I thought I'd share my experience. First a little background. I bought the plane 5 years ago, and I paid a premium because it...

I routinely change my own oil/filter on my O-320 (750 SMOH). Yesterday I changed my oil, and cut open my old filter then ran a magnet over the pleats...I'm sure the magnet was clean before I started, but when I was done, I had one, and only one, tiny round metal flake on the magnet. I was going...

So this is my first winter with an IR, and I've found staying current is difficult...well, its difficult to stay current if you are looking to fly in actual conditions here in Michigan while avoiding ice. But I've been patient, watched the weather daily, and even took a few different days off...

I've bought and sold quite a few homes in my past. In my younger days I would buy a house, live in it a year while I fixed it up, then sell it/on to the next house....kept me busy and it has allowed me, over time, to live in much nicer/bigger homes than I would have been able to afford...

I'd be on the phone with my divorce attorney the instant my feet hit the ground! Seriously. I think I divorced my first wife for less. There's something about people in an emergency who scream...and although she annoyingly screams, she DOES manage to keep filming (Gotta have something to sell...

I have to laugh at the comments of some people on the news story for this...I'm not saying these kids walking down the sidewalk, or anyone walking down the sidewalk for that matter, deserved to get run over, but OBVIOUSLY there is more to the story (its called having coming sense, "totality of...

But, its the same people that have claimed to have found Amelia Earhart, so maybe not: http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/glenn-miller%e2%80%99s-airplane-possibly-found-decades-after-famed-bandleader-vanished-during-wwii/ar-BBSffU9?ocid=ientp

Back in the early '90s, when I was still just in my 20's, I bought a beautifully-built experimental aircraft from a little, quiet, unassuming old guy that had lost his medical. The plane was a tri-q2 built by the guy I bought it from, and it really was beautiful: the guy sold it with the...