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How long does the process to get the exemption for the lazy eye usually take?

So when I first got my pilot's license I failed the eye exam at first because of a lazy eye which my brain doesn't really use when my good eye is open outside of peripheral vision level. But before rejecting, the doc instead gave me a week to do eye exercises to sort of force the brain to use...

There is no issue with my insurance (funny enough, I asked before even buying the plane). And the FAA likewise seems to have no issue with this according to AOPA attorney Kathy Yodice: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2012/december/07/seatbelts-remember-the-rule-of-three Relevant...

My three daughters (8, 8, and 6) fit in my '77 Arrow III Turbo. Plenty of room (for now) and the double buckling has never been an issue. They are all tiny so well under the weight limits. For headsets also got a splitter so 5 headsets not an issue despite only 4 built in hookups. The real issue...

An engineering friend of mine, who runs a rather large engineering firm, and I were discussing this the other day when talking about the DarkAero team and their work compared to Mike Patey and his team. And he noted there is a MASSIVE difference between building something once that works how you...

The general idea will be pretty random scripted discussions of all manner of aviation related things from interesting history, technical or legal aspects of things (like is it legal to land a helicopter in a fast food restaurant parking lot?), whatever, similar in style to our many other...

I don't know if it's appropriate to post here and will delete if the consensus is nada, but started a YouTube channel, Higher Learning, in which I basically fly around talking about interesting things such as What's the best way to survive falling out of a plane without a parachute? and really...

The issue is not whether Trent is fully accurately stating his case. (Although given his history of admitting mistakes in the past very openly on his videos and people who know him chiming in very much on his side, it seems weird he should go the other way on this one.) But regardless, it...

That's helpful. Seems pretty straightforward just to check if that existing headphone jack is wired in to the pin 18 correctly and check it with a multimeter to make sure nothing wrong with the wire itself. From there the only possibility if all that's good is being an idiot somehow. ;-)...

Flightcom 403 or something like that, and Garmin 530 and 430 all hooked up. Again nothing fancy. Four dual plug hookups and also up front two of the I think it's 6? pin powered plugs, though I've never used those. Also up front is this random male standard headphone jack line for hooking up to...

Nothing fancy- Narco cp 136 tso.

My plane ('77 turbo arrow III) has a little male headphone jack wired in for piping music or whatever to every headset, but it's never worked despite the previous owner swearing it always did for him. Mechanic took a look at the last annual and couldn't see why not and so quoted about $500-$750...

"I have learn from experiences. And so will he as he gets older..." To be fair, his experience includes one time youngest pilot to fly solo around the world, which he did in that very Bonanza and since then I believe has a few thousand hours in it... Always new things to learn, but his...

No that's the one. They used to sell the unit as well with it, not just the accessory pack. When I bought it anyway. But from their page it seems they no longer do for some reason. They were great to work with though. When I bought it I was about to do a cross country trip (literally coast to...

I vaguely remember reading 5-10 amps when I bought it a couple years back. I could be mistaken, however. Whatever the case, always works fine in my 1977 Turbo Arrow III plugged in to the cigarette lighter including also charging phones and what not too using a 12 volt splitter. Never popped the...

I have an inogen g5 that works phenomenally well. Used it up at 17.5k feet and oxygen levels awesome. It also works for two people up to about 15k officially, but I've been told fine anywhere under 18k too for two people by someone whose done it multiple times. Battery lasts a few hours and the...

I have an Arrow III Turbo and my mechanic found a solution for a quick drain plug and an attachment that actually fits with the limited clearance. Call up Lyn from Vertex aviation at Skagit regional airport (KBVS)

The area is in eastern Washington up near the Canadian border (near Hunters, Wa, if you look up near Clark Lake on Bissell Rd there on Google maps you'll spot it :-)). Doesn't get much rain at all and usually very hot. Water pooling on the runway has never been an issue I've seen. The guy who...

Both clumps of sod next to dry bare hard as a rock dirt and little ground deviations that have developed over the years since last maintained. The strip used to be very smooth as a guy with a Cessna 150 used to maintain it and fly in and out all the time (turns out running weed back when it was...

I have a 3k ft grass runway I'd like to be able to land and takeoff from but the issue is it hasn't been maintained in years and about half of it is now too bumpy to land or take off on. The other half is fine, but at gross weight and high density altitude in the summer (8k+ feet) I need at...