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Things have gotten quiet on this thread and since it’s New Year’s Eve I’ll stir things up - this gentlemen needs to buy a Duke!

Concur, It's just interesting he didn't fire the bottle.

Believe it or not - the makes the most rationale sense here.

My father was a Plastic Surgeon - he owned a Duke, but never had time to fly that pig. My parents encouraged me to be a College Professor - Business, I make good money but not Plastic Surgeon money. I own a Warrior and I was able to fly it over 100 hours this summer. My parents said you should...

Actually, as I understand it, what’s running out are out of production integrated chips which rarely fail on these units. Thus, some repairs will increasingly become impossible but most should still be doable for years to come. They’ve sold over 120,000 of these units so I do not think they’ll...

It’s a continuum with developable compensatory mechanisms - moreover, it has positive attributes that may be advantageous in certain situations. At it’s simplest level it may be our attempt to explain behavior at the extremes of normalcy. Many times these are just really quirky folks those who...

So I’ve reported your post to the moderators as I do not appreciate being called either ignorant or prejudiced- that’s what’s called bullying.

No - dead private pilots and their families who sleep with the fishes - never had a chance to use that before. They’ve had a couple of bad night accidents with folks leaving out of there at night after dinner - it’s a black hole departure right over the Gulf.You’ve obviously got an affinity...

Been to Venice, Florida lately - at night???

Well I'm a dumb a-s and misread the P manual it's actually 51KCAS - maybe they are picking on Pipers?

No, that's what they have to have to sign someone off for night. Let's hope they've got more!

Okay but why note include the legacy 4 place cruisers? They talk about promoting safety, but we all have to agree that all these sport pilots would be way safer in an old spam can 172.

Ok I'll bite - here's an example. To provide the night sign off as an instructor all you need to do is be night eligible yourself. Hey, I'm going to teach you how to fly at night when I've only got three night hours myself. I'm not denigrating the sport pilot CFIs -but with only three hours of...

Hey folks, I think one critical aspect of the rule is if you can modify existing designs to get them to meet these new criteria as sport pilot eligible aircraft. Lots of existing aircraft have access to various STC based modifications that can get the vs1 calibrated down to these requirements...

Warrior stalls at 50 - Archer 54

Sorry I don't read things as good as I used to - I see now install costs are not the issue since you'll be doing the install as an employee.

As before the KMA20 is old but not a bad unit - I've got one and plan to switch it for a PMA8000G when it quits - problem (I suppose) is that it will not give up the ghost and I refuse to spend the 4 to 5 AMUs until then. How about your intercom - that's really critical in this discussion -...

Yes - that can be done - anything can be done! Everyone dogs the KMA 20 because it’s old- and it is old. However, it was a good unit in the day and many soldier on today - I just do not recommend making any investment that would “marry” you to it which doing the new GPS install will do...

My favorite is the Twilight Zone movie where the flying monster (or whatever) does in flight engine maintenance like a union Eastern Airlines mechanic! The scene finishes playing the midnight special.

As a LSU person it's interesting to note that this ghost plane stuff started in 1980 with the Conquest with LSU's football coach on it - way back time but I don't really recall any accidents of this type prior to that. Some pretty spectacular ones since then Payne Stewart, TBM owner...