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My 2-blade Hartzell prop failed inspection and I am now faced with buying a new prop. The two-blade Hartzell's are delayed in delivery and I can't get one until April, so I'm faced with a conversion to a three-blade. I can get a McCauley Black Mac for $9,698 or a Hartzell Top Prop for $8700...

I'm flying next week from upstate NY to southern Florida. It will take two stops. I've had good luck in the past at CGE in MD for the first stop, but I need another stop in South Carolina or Georgia, along the coast. My priorities, in order, are: 1. Reasonable fuel costs, 2. a restaurant...

Help! I have put off doing anything for the guys at the airport and I need some advice and a sense of what's customary. My gift list is only five people. What do you do for the airport staff that is out there clearing off my plane in the cold, plugging me in, and generally making my life easier...

I listen to the "chirp" when my main gear touch down, even on the rare greaser, and can hear my tires wearing out with each landing. Has anybody ever heard of a device attached to the hub (retract only) that has small wind vanes attached that spin up the wheels when they are deployed in the...

Ok, I understand the concept, but I can't seem to work it out in practice. I am quite comfortable flying an ILS in smooth stratus to minimums, even if they are 200' and 1/2 mile. However, I wouldn't do the same approach in moderate turbulence if ceilings were 400 feet. If there was terrain...

I sent an e-mail inquiry to the National Weather System ADDS webmaster, asking why is it that many AWOS reporting stations do not make it to the METARS, so although we can pick them up in flight we cannot use them for planning purposes. I thought I'd share the quick, thorough, and well-reasoned...

I'm going to have to overhaul my 15-year old, 1600 hour Lycoming IO360 CIC in my 1972 Piper Arrow at some point within the next year or two. I'll also have the prop overhauled. I'm wondering if there might be some economies in installing accessories during the overhaul, and if anybody knows of...

This one was new for me, anybody else ever experience it? I was en route at 7,000 feet on an IFR plan, clear VMC night, over a remote area with few lights on the ground, no moon. I saw a plane in the distance. I could resolve two white lights pointed at me, which I assumed to be wing mounted...

The FAA is now releasing maps and text that release "hot" Special Use and REstricted airpsace information, updated every six hours for the next 24 hours. I bookmarked it. http://sua.faa.gov/atcaaSplash.jsp

Yesterday was one of those rare summer days in the northeast, unlimited visibility, warm, no clouds. I had colleagues visiting from Boston with whom I had made plans to meet for dinner near my office in New York. They were staying in White Plains, right near where my Arrow is parked when I'm...

How do you all find airports and select FBOs when you are planning a trip? Typically a friend will let me know that they are visiting somewhere within a couple of hundred miles of me and suggest I come over for lunch. (Everybody knows I'm always looking for an excuse to fly somewhere and my...