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    I need help. I want to get to 250 hours as efficiently as possible.

    I became a pilot at 19. I’m 57. I bought my first airplane a looong time ago. I got into the aviation business in the last 2-3 years. If I knew then what I know now…. The cheapest way to accumulate hours is owning your own plane- period. Unless you have someone letting you use theirs for...
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Kobe Jones had a practically unlimited flying money budget. I didn’t know him but I knew his pilot. I’ve been flying since 19 and owned airplanes for decades. I worked 10-15 a to ates in the Midwest or Midwest adjacent in my non- FIKi turbo mooney. I have an IFR rating and have a healthy...
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    Closed WTB PMA 8000BT

    Hey - I’m interested in buying a pma 8000 also…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Mark Baker to step down at AOPA

    Meh. Politics are such that politicians are super easy to buy for not much money depending on how you allocate your funds, you can buy certain keyhole legislation items to suit your goals. General aviation members are too clean and too forgiving to hire the regular rank and file lobbyist in...
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    PPR and Landing Fee Nonsense Again in Vegas for Superbowl

    And if you’re a Super Bowl fanboy…you deserve and are entitled to pay those prices for aviation parking. They only charge that because idiots are willing to pay, simple. This is how bourgeois and elitist societies are created.
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    For Sale New Garmin GPS155XL, Antenna and Annunciator $1650 - UPDATE or best offer before it goes on Fleabay

    Updated to reflect best offer Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    For Sale New Garmin GPS155XL, Antenna and Annunciator $1650 - UPDATE or best offer before it goes on Fleabay

    Brand new, never used Garmin IFR GPS155XL. It includes a brand new, never installed AK950 annunciator, new Garmin GA-56 GPS Antenna, installation kit, and unused registration card. Why buy a used one on eBay for $1700 when you can have a *brand new one* here that includes the antenna...
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    (NA - sort of) Your at your local airport and witness a fellow pilot kick a dog on a leash

    I’ve trained in the ringsports for nearly 20 years. We produce most of the dogs that law enforcement and the military use as our castoffs - knpv, French and mondo ring, nbvk……I’ve taken bites after bites after bites…. We don’t kick dogs. Ever. We motivate them, raise their drive, agitate them...
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    For Sale Wanted - Garmin GTX-320/320A

    Got one. PM me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    How Many Planes Do You Have

    Im too busy trying to paint, upholster or install radios in all y’all’s birds :) But yes I fly all of them… When we find an airplane that’s been sitting a while, we bring it back to shape and fly it for 25-50 hours. We’ve been using some of these planes to improve some of our shop processes...
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    How Many Planes Do You Have

    Cessna 172M with 0SMOH, 0SPOH, new paint and interior. Owned 30 years Mooney M20K 231/252 with long range tanks , owned 25 years , GtN650, gnx345, xm weather, kfc150, storm scope Mooney M20E, new paint, fresh bladders, 15 spoh, 645 SFRM, new fuel injection, GNS430W, pma 8000, assn in and out...
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    For Sale Garmin GA35 GPS Antenna FS

    I’ll take it - ygpm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Want To Buy WTB Ameriking AK-451 or450

    Got brand. Ew unused ameriking 450 for parts Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Rotor heads you're out of a job.

    Evtols (eye roll)…the latest venture capital / private equity scam. Will there be some? Sure. Meh
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    First Plane Minimum 200hp (Business Use) Keeping 3-5 Years - Suggestions?

    Once I worked for the #1 stock of the decade for a while. I covered from blue bell to chicago, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, Indiana, Minneapolis and everything in between. I chose to fly for work when I could. Along the way I upgraded to a turbo mooney, not FIKI. I flew it everywhere...
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    How do I become a fighter pilot?

    Blah blah blah. Lots of people will share with you how to do it the hard way. I teach kids how to get bachelor degrees with 4.0’s as a hobby. In record time. College choice doesn’t matter. On principle I got one recently, 145 semester units at a brick and mortar college, in 1 year and 1...
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    Taildragger recommendations

    I believe the answer is a non Franklin Stinson. You can pay top dollar for a built one; I have a hangar with 4-5 of them that were banner towers being sold as projects which I’ve not made a priority to sell. I have one that flew right up to Covid with an IO540 that I took the wings off of that...
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    Debating on an Icon A5

    For the ridiculous retail price of an Icon, you can do infinitely better. Scrolling through controller, trade a plane, etc- they’re around 250k used and comfortably into the 3’s. For that, you can get a 172, 180, 185 on floats all day- with zero issues. Go through the sales process and see...
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    Looking for a paint shop recommendation around Dallas TX

    Why are paint jobs expensive? What’s to do? - remove all the control surfaces - cover all of the windows and other orifices that you don’t want stripper to penetrate - remove wing lace or rubber trim anywhere in the airplane - strip the airplane completely - no errors, no stripper in the...
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    For Sale: Aircraft Government auction airplanes -- bargain or trap?

    87k sounds like a substantial amount for a salvage aircraft. I recently bid for a Comanche 180 that was complete. It didn’t look it - too cowl seemed missing but it was on the field. Someone had tried to steal the three bladed prop. The only thing missing was a GX60 which I have, and two...
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