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What's the worst aviation journalism you've seen today? I'll open the bidding with this gem on Yahoo! Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/textrons-txt-fleet-cessna-piston-142200615.html): Textron's (TXT) Fleet of Cessna Piston Jets Enters Into Service Textron Inc. TXT recently announced...

Per my thread about my alternator issue[1], I’ve replaced the voltage regulators in the 310 with the fancy Plane Power substitutes. They seem to work fine. One thing I am a little concerned about is that the over-voltage protection in these regulators works by shorting the enable pin to ground...

I almost posted this in the thread about regretting a decision to upgrade planes. Anyhow, the left engine in the 310 got jealous of the attention the right one was getting from the recent magneto coil meltdown. The wiring diagram shows that each engine’s alternator has its own voltage regulator...

I had to cancel a trip today because of a failed magneto. Shame on me for not doing post-flight magneto checks so I might have caught it before we played musical airplanes in 25-knot winds today. During my runup, turning off the left magneto on that engine caused no RPM drop, while turning off...

This is a thread about why I don’t really care how much my insane flying hobby costs, I will choose to afford it as long as I can. A couple weeks ago, when it was -25F or colder, my car blew up its water pump. A couple days later, I checked the coolant in my wife’s car to be sure it wouldn’t...

I recently switched from ForeFlight to Garmin Pilot. I alternate every few years. I fly two planes with Garmin avionics. One supports Database Concierge. The other does not. I don’t see a way to turn this feature on in Garmin Pilot on a per-plane basis. Is there any problem with turning it on...

I'm renewing my plane's insurance for another year. The good news is that the premium went down measurably (only reason I can think of is that I hit 1,000 hours, so all those $100 hamburgers are starting to pay off!) But my policy still falls short of the Canadian requirements and I don't want...

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/349825 "Royal Air Freight flight RAX698, a Learjet 55, suffered a runway excursion after landing on runway 22 at Mission Field Airport (LVM/KLVM), Livingston, Montana. The aircraft sustained substantial damage and the two pilots onboard the airplane were not...

As mentioned in my prior thread about my trip to Hollywood last June, when we were doing a run-up before departing Santa Monica, the tower told us that something had apparently fallen off of our plane and was being dragged behind us, so we taxied back to the tie-down and looked around. A police...

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/airlines-blame-ga-for-holiday-flight-delays/ https://www.avweb.com/insider/a-weirdly-provocative-way-to-end-the-year/ I would say that I travel more by GA than airline specifically because the airlines have treated me poorly. Not that they owe me anything...

Does someone who’s good with LiveATC want to lend me a hand? I’m trying to find the Minneapolis Center and/or Fargo Approach conversation with Skywest 3804 when it diverted from Minot to Minneapolis around 11:30 pm Central Time on 11/15/23 (05:30 Zulu on 11/16/23). Whatever the reason was, this...

Do any POAers have experience putting together and/or operating a single-pilot Part 135 charter operation? I'm curious how much of a headache it really is, how hard it is to get insurance, and things like that. In particular, how much red tape is really conserved in getting one of these...

I am thinking about a February (hey, it's not like it'll be colder than ND that time of year) trip to the San Francisco Bay area for about a week. At least some of the festivities would be in San Jose and I have family in San Mateo. We can only burn 100LL avgas and we can buy as little of it as...

This is not my usual weird question thread. I am just reporting for no reason at all that, last weekend, I logged my 1,000th hour of flight. I had to retrieve our 1941 J-3 from the farm for its annual inspection last weekend. It was 22F on the ground and not warmer at 5500 MSL (3000 AGL, give or...

https://apnews.com/article/utah-plane-crash-moab-killed-a7064a4f3a883be6f920fb647d10c6ca https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/346183 Not a lot of details yet. The crash was shortly after takeoff from the Canyonlands airport. The victims were a North Dakota state senator, his wife, and two of...

As mentioned in another thread before my trip, I flew over 1,000 miles to California just to see a movie. Someone mentioned an ongoing dossier about me, so I figured I’d mess that up a bit with some facts. Here’s the story of how and why I made the trip. It’s a long post. Long enough that the...

I am considering flying to LA to see a movie. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s only 1,000 miles away and it’s a movie I’ve only seen three times. It’s showing at the Chinese Theatre in late June, on a Monday evening if that makes a difference. I’ll tell the rest of the story some other time...

I'm looking at making a trip to Niagara Falls and considering staying on the Canadian side. I see that there is an airport on the Canadian side of the falls (CYSN) but it doesn't appear to be an airport of entry. So I can consider a few routes: KXWA-CYQT-CYSN returning CYSN-KDLH-KXWA...

Our plane has a GTN 750 Xi, GTN 650 Xi, G500 TXi, GI 275, and FS 510. I have tried to update the databases both with an SD card through the TXi and from Garmin Pilot through Database Concierge. In both instances, I noticed that the whole panel seems to synchronize the update and reboot process...

So there I was, flying along, when ATC told me that I would have to climb to 14,000 to stay on the airway I had filed, but I could stay at 12,000 if we took an off-airway shortcut. The OROCA in the area was higher than the airway. I don't remember exactly where this was, but I think it was V208...