Search results

Just reply "direct LHS then on own" seems to work well without causing controller ire even if the second part is not needed technically.

Easy airport for GA IFR or VFR. Generally will use 08-26 or 17-35 runways. Atlantic is along the 08-26 runway making for a sort of airport-in-an-airport much like BWI. Expect specific taxi instructions particularly leaving if using 35 - and read back and follow the hold short instructions -...

Based on the behavior built-in Flightstream in a GNS175 I use, a Flightstream card or built-in interface works with both FF and GP for transferring flight plans to or from the iPad. However, only GP can push a new dataset to the navigator. So if using FF you still have to pull the card and put...

That is beautiful. And the kind of thing you can only do yourself and eat the labor. It will almost never pay to "restore" and aircraft in terms of ROI. You do it because you like it better, it has better utility or safety, or because it's your "forever" plane and you don't care about being...

Have been lurking on this thread. My G5 will show a yellow heading but it seems that it occurs only after a high g or long continuous turning. Then it goes back to white. Wondering if I should escalate.

Would investigate the transverse line in the paint though.

Where is the button to turn off the stupid lightning noise?

Pity. It is an excellent flying aircraft. But for what it doesn't, the price is unjustifiable for almost all.

76 cu ft

Two big pushes of aircraft sales IMHO. First was post WWII when a lot of returning servicemen wanted to keep or start flying. Second was these servicemen or others in the late 1970s with the discretionary income after raising their families to finally purchase the airplane they had been dreaming...

Had the same bottle in a restart turbo 182. With the mountain high system you'll go along way on a charge. No experience with the included masks, but they flow very fast, with the pilot's mask 2x the others. With the turbo the sweet spot for flying and weather was 11-15k, so I used it all the...

Twin is roughly three times the maintenance of a high performance single. For example, look into replacing the fuel selector handle to fuel selector cable in a C414. It's an $800 cable. And a lot of labor. And so on. Realistically, with a few rare exceptions being sold by pilots as the they...

After one year of extensive maintenance ran a turbo 310 for 800 hours without issue. I'd expect to about the same with any twin that was not impeccably maintained. Very few are and they are not for sale typically. High performance singles and twins seem to languish for many years after the...

Power will decrease as rpm is decreased, that is a correct observation. Mags should be set per data such as on the engine data plate or STC. With a fixed pitch prop there will also be static limits (greater than x, less than y) typically found for specific prop/engine combinations on the TCDS...

As noted a compression test is a leak down test, not a measure of what happens when the engine is running. It tells you if the rings are sealing decently and if the valves are closing properly. Read once that Continental ran an engine with essentially infinite leak down (no residual pressure...

The best first cross-country plane for almost anyone is a Cessna 182. Except you'd need the 206 if you are really going to put all five family members in at once. I'll just go out on a limb and say it - you aren't ready to do this until after you have an IR. Not because you can't find enough...

The acrobatics without a parachute seems like an easy regulatory issue - upside down requires a parachute and everyone who has done and intro lesson in a Citabria has experienced.

Just saw that message for the first time yesterday - is it new? I went from a planned flight to radar vectors and saw that warning. FF since ~2010 so feel like it's new. Or I'm making sharper flight plans than I used to...

True ± Variation - > Magnetic ± Deviation -> Course is what I remember, being too lazy to google. Or as @IK04 properly remembered "true virgins make dull company"

LS1 at 2000 rpm is probably about 100 hp stock. 600# for 250 water cooled horsepower is about 150# more than an aircooled Continental 6 cylinder engine which can make 285 to 310 hp continuously for 2000 hours. And is usually flown around 65% or say 190 hp. Aircraft engines are generally...