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My avionics guy started installing my Trio autopilot in the 172L this week. Servos went in quickly and easily. He's working on installing the control head but I told him to 'clean up' old wiring behind the panel while he's in there....didn't realize what a rats nest that was going to be....I...

Looking for opinions on a cost effective autopilot for my 172. I'm about 3/4 of the way through my instrument training, should be done in about a month. Having done all my training without an autopilot, I can see where a simple wing leveler would really be a help while multi-tasking and also...

Question: how much of a price penalty would you place on Cub, Champ, or similar if it had no log books but was in excellent shape otherwise with current annual, registration, & flown regularly. Although important, I’m thinking an older simpler plane would be less affected by missing logs as...

80.4 hours total for me in 2021. Roughly 3/4 of which was my 172 and 1/4 was in the J-3 cub. Not a bad year overall. How was your year in terms of general aviation flying?

So, let's say a guy could put together enough scratch to buy 3-4 Piper cubs, find an old school grass strip airport, and wrangle 2-3 young CFIs into teaching. Do you think the there could be a case to start a little flying school that caters to the 'grassroots' and 'stol' crowd? Like maybe...

So, I see Cubs listed on the usual sites (barnstormers, trade-a-plane, etc) for between $35-$60k but they always seem to linger a long time. Some of them are really nice, like showpiece quality. I’m potentially in the market for one, but was hopeful to find one sub $30k, nothing showpiece...

Bought my first airplane in May. 1970 172L w/ 8000+ TT and 1700 SMOH. Took it in for my first annual yesterday. Two bad cylinders, pitted tappets and cam lobes. Shop says I need a new motor (overhaul). I can't say I'm shocked, I did buy a high time airplane. Just wasn't expecting it this...