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Wrapped up a full panel upgrade -- which really amounted to rewiring most of the airplane -- and got the shakedown flights and new xpdr/pitot-static inspections done in time to make our first visit to the Bahamas, escaping the midwest before the winter's first big snow. This is a trip we've...

My wife and I were talking eclipse last night, and I couldn’t easily find a Foreflight custom layer for this one, like I found in 2017. So I made one. Sharing in case it may be of use to anyone else. The centerline is drawn, and 30-second bands of duration (starts with purple at 4:00+)...

I've been interested in airparks since the days my father would bundle the family into the car and drive an hour or more to look at lots on runways, then return home and talk about what life would be like if we could move there. Never happened, but 20-some years, a PPL, and an airplane later...

Got a couple Lord mounts that have sagged and need replacement, but darn if I can get the old ones unstuck from the dynafocal rings. Any advice from our resident mechanics? Tried a wood drift with a light hammer, with no luck — a little reluctant to just break out the BFH and go to town...

I’ve had my eye on a Wed-Sat trip to Colorado Springs for a change of scenery this week, but weather outlook now is trending stormy there, while Denver is looking better. So...any intel from the POA braintrust on which airport is most efficient / cost-effective for access to the tourist-parts of...

Planning a trip west for the long weekend; does anyone have experience with the FBO's at Billings and/or Great Falls? Based on AirNav, Edwards looks like the only game at BIL, but GTF has Holman and Front Range; any experiences, etc welcome...which is more friendly to the small (2-seat) plane...

We tried to make San Antonio area yesterday, but put down for the night in Llano faced with lowering weather. Relatives in San Antonio drove out to pick us up...plane is still out there. Anyone heading from San Antonio area (any airport) out to the Llano area Saturday with an empty seat and...

I'm plotting a day-trip flight to have lunch with friends in Madison, WI (2 hrs in the C150), who live a few miles from MSN. The Class C makes me a bit nervous, given that the only tower work I've done was at 2 Class D fields (learned to fly at a rural grass strip), and that was several years...