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For those of you who may not know on Thursday morning the day of her incident at Wittman Regional her longtime crew chief Gene was killed in a Velocity XL in Florida. This delivered a serious blow to Patty, that evening she attended a dinner banquet at the Eagle Hangar at AirVenture. I have read...

If you can find one, the Helio Stallion "blows the doors" off anything mentioned here 188 KTS, 3500 FPM, land and take-off in 200 feet, 6.5 hours of range at 177 KTS, extremely versatile

In the short-field, slow-speed approach capability there is no other available production certified aircraft that can match the Helio Courier/Super Courier. It also has the safest record when considering everything produced in the last 45 years. Not the fastest, but with 120 gallons of fuel you...

I posted injected and supercharged, the GSO-480 has the PS5D carb, the IGSO-480 has fuel injection, in the case of the Helio Courier and I've owned and rebuilt two, the GO-480-G1D6 (295 HP) is the best of the lot. They both went beyond TBO and both had accumulated 1800 hours. Most folks need to...

I was referring to Visual flight, sorry for not making clarification with this and as regards to developing flight habits not related to IMC until later on....

It's called situational awareness and scanning technique, which should be developed early on in the flight training process, yes the horizon is still just that. I was taught from the beginning to always know what the airplane is doing without reference to the panel

Do the DVD tutorial on G1000 from your local DVD pilot shop and learn it there and then do the practical application in your 172. I think this works best IMHO Cheers and good luck

I started with traditional and learned some Glass, I prefer the traditional for now...

Here is one you can use if you don't have it allready

Well I thought I would post this here to clarify some misconceptions that you may have regarding these out of production engines. First I'm going to deal with the Lycoming series since my experience is directed to them. Let's do this: I'll divide the series up into cubic inch displacement to...

The Bellanca Skyrocket III as it is now called set numerous records in the speed department back in 1976, one of which was 326 MPH. Powered with the Continental GTSIO-520-K (435 HP) this engine was also used in the Commander 685 based on the Turbo Commander 690A airframe, not many were built but...