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Why did Piper change from the overhead and door vents to the later floor vents? Having learned in Cessna 172s the wing vents were nice. However in my 1969 Cherokee 140 the floor vents don’t seem to cool you as good has the Cessna 172 vents. I have never flown an older Cherokee with the overhead...

I do not use the app but login to the website with my iPhone. Where the heck is the logout?

Sometimes busy airports are too busy to pay attention to FF. During flight training my instructor and I flew from South Jersey to North Jersey (Greenwood Lake). We got flight following and handed off to New York. When we had Greenwood lake in sight we called to cancel flight following with no...

My 1969 Cherokee 140B currently has a Gil battery that is about 9 years old and really slow to crank. I want to replace it with a a Concorde RG-35AXC. The Gil has wing nut connections to the battery. From pictures of the RG-35AXC it looks like round terminals. Do the battery wires have to be...

Just read at a local airport a 150G crashed while attempting to pick up a banner. From the article the airplane was unable to climb after picking up the banner. No word on engine malfunction and the pilot survived the crash into the woods. My question is seems a 150 whether it be any model is...

Yea, I mean stents. No heart or brain but each leg and stomach major arteries.

My cousin has been flying for over 20 years VFR SEL. When Basic Med became available he switched to it. He is currently in the hospital with 3 aneurysms; both legs and stomach. He is a good candidate to have stints put in as out patient surgery and avoiding slice and dice surgery. Since he is...

I was in a similar situation. I got my PPL at 57 and 62 hours flying twice a week. However I was struggling with landing. It just seemed to never click with me. My cousin who flies a Pitts and has a Cherokee 140 would call me after every lesson and he was getting frustrated it was taking me too...

I was a little slow on the uptake there and had to look up what happened to Charles after the war. Then I got the reference to Martha.

Never heard of this guy before. Who is he you ask? In 1919 flew through the Arch de Triomph in Paris. He only got a warning.

Just FYI. Some rental places charge wet and dry time. Dry time is if you take the airplane somewhere and don’t fly it for a few days. For example you have a 3 day weekend and rent the airplane. You fly 2 hours to the destination which is Hobbes time. The plane sits for 2 days before flying back...

Thanks for the link, it was extremely helpful! Lots of paperwork but within the realm of doable. Will consider it for next year.

The company I work for participates in the annual Autism fund raising. We have donation drives, competitions between departments, etc. Someone suggested I raffle off a ride in my airplane. This has been asked every year and I have not pursued this. I am a basic non-commercial VFR only pilot...

I had the wheel fairings removed from the airplane because it was difficult maneuvering the airplane to get the mains valve stem in the right place to periodically check air pressure and put air in when needed (the front wheel is much easier). Was wondering if I put them back on if it would harm...

Guess Canyon Runner is out flying. Any airframe mechanics have insight if the situation Canyon Runner got into can stress an airframe?

With the experience Canyon Runner had is there any chance the airframe got over stressed?

I am not a mechanic by profession but work on cars, boats and motorcycles for friends. Although I don’t charge I am always asked why did a simple job take so long. My stock answer is “There are no more 5 minute jobs left, our forefathers used them all up. There are some 10 minute and 30 minute...

I have a 1969 Cherokee 140B and recently had an unexpected windfall of some money to spend. The Cherokee only has lap belts and I would like front shoulder harness installed. If anyone has done this please let me know what documents are required and the cost. Thanks

Pinecone picked up on the first procedure the OP (which is me) stated. This first procedure: I.E. taxi on lowest tank, run up on the fullest and take off on the fullest verifies the fuel valve is not stuck and you can pull fuel from both tanks. If you start on the fullest and never move the fuel...

Thanks for the clarification. There is then a big difference between leaning for shut down and actually running the engine out of fuel by shutting off the fuel valve.