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    Maintenance Advice

    Hi all, I'm in the first cycle (i.e. have not yet done my first annual) of a new-to-me airplane - a Cessna 205. I have a couple of maintenance related questions I could your help on: I need to do an ELT check and pitot/static in December. The plane has a handful of small squawks and inop...
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    TKS for frost

    Hi everyone - I was frustrated again this morning by significant frost on my wings. One of my tie-down neighbors showed up about the same time as I did, except he came prepared with a little one-gallon weed sprayer full to TKS fluid. He proceeded to mist his plane and let me do mine and the...
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    Usefulness of IFR in Mountainous Areas

    I am IFR rated but not current, and after flying more recently after the purchase of a plane (again... its a sickness), I have been thinking about getting current again. That said, I live in Idaho, i.e. big mountains and MEAs betweeen 10-13k’. When I got my IR I was living in Southern...
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    What's the deal with Panels?

    So, it seems like every time you change as much as a screw in an airplane, it has to be STC'ed and what-not, but I see tons of random stuff in panels that can't be. The expensive GPS's make sense, and if I remember correctly all that stuff is, in fact, an STC'ed installation. I've been looking...
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