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"He took his pellet gun, a CB Radio, sandwiches, 2 litres of Coca-Cola, a pack of beer and a camera." Absolute legend.

Curious what such a component would do? I'm guessing it's a component where you wouldn't want something like a rotary encoder directly touching the bell crank to measure the position?

Several years ago I got big into DIY electronics as a hobby. The vast majority of my time was spent building Arduino projects, but I dabbled a bit in Raspberry Pi too. In the peak of my obsession with those I went overboard buying up all sorts of microcontrollers, sensors and servos and I kind...

It's like this? You drift a little off course and develop some cross-track error and then you want to fly direct from a new point rather than flying back to your original path? Is the question essentially how much XTE can you develop before there is an issue?

Interesting price moves - big increase on the universe (+7.9% avg, +6.1% median) but with a lot of conflicting moves across each series. If you exclude Cirrus from the data the market was essentially flat (+1%). They have an enormous impact on pricing stats, both avg/median. Overall turnover...

Quite the storm front...

I'm wondering how it would be relevant what the insured value of your aircraft is if the other person is liable for the accident? That's just the value I insure, if I insure it at all. There's a number of ways that are better to figure out a current "value" of the aircraft, and it seems like...

I think we can safely put EdFred in the "Just learn how to fly your plane and use full flaps" camp ;)

Not exactly a nice place, but Cubby Bear in Chicago across from Wrigley Field. Circa 2008. It was all courtesy of a belligerent drunk female friend who was picking fights with people, and bouncers assuming I was part of the mayhem b/c i was with her. I ended up being "escorted" out...

I don't know much about the town but I could VERY easily get on board with a Wyoming fly-in. I'd make the trip from Chicago. Some place like that I'd personally prefer for fall or spring. Summer could be brutal for DA and winter could be rugged wx.

I ended up using AVEMCO but BWI (broker) was responsive and helpful.

I think the other Stormy gets polluted with a lot more than water...

Solvent wash did the trick! Appreciate that recommendation folks! Compression increased from 62 -> 68. Others in the 70s. All good for now. And it sounds like AQI is going to honor the warranty on an OH turn coordinator I got last year which stopped working (warranty is only 1y and I'm a few...

Understandable... Perhaps members out west can propose a nice fly-in spot? Personally I would be totally down to fly out west to a mountain-y or scenic place.

Spot on. And this is true beyond engineering. The number of people who expect to be able to skate through their career while taking zero risk (but also expecting growing paychecks) is astounding. You get enough of those people in a company and it becomes the culture. Lots of big, "mature"...

My airport just sent a letter to tenants advising of a training session we should all plan to attend regarding "storm water pollution protection procedures". After the session we can sign up for slots to demonstrate our compliance with the audit team. I was totally excited to attend until I...

I split escrow closing costs with the seller. They were minimal relative to transaction size. Aerospace reports was totally worth it since they lined up all the paperwork. Super easy. An attorney would have been overkill for my deal. The form contract for AOPA works great. Just make sure you...

Got an update... They checked out the valves and said no issue there, so that's good. They're doing a solvent flush now with a concoction of Xylene, mineral spirits and Aeroshell W100 then they'll test it again.

There is nothing appealing about the ATP value proposition. That's a huge dollar amount to get to the minimum qualified commercial credentials. I think you're far, far better off buying a 152 (with a prebuy inspection) - flying the hell out of it - and selling it when you're done. It's true...