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  1. thesmug

    What will happen next?

    Happened while I was away. FAA is currently involved. Just had to deal with ordering a 4000 dollar bumper for the landing gear earlier today. Time to buy a new rudder too! Maybe more! Any other things you guys think should break while we're at it?
  2. thesmug

    GMU 11 Magnetometer Occasionally Failing

    During a 3 hour cross country, the magnetic heading on both of my dual G5s would occasionally oscillate back and forth a few degrees then completely fail, only to come back a few minutes later. This happened probably 4 times. Does anyone know what the cause could be and if it would be possible...
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    Cessna R182 hard landing

    Just got our new R182 back home today and it was about 100 degrees and extremely humid so I was already having a pretty hard time. We had a somewhat hard landing that bounced once, main gear first on the initial touch and the bounce after. Half of my hours are in a 172RG, and I’ve never had as...
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    Unusual and Rare Avionics

    I just bought a very nice R182 and it has a few open spots for instruments where there used to be a stormscope and probably an ADF. The stormscope antenna is still on the plane and I'm considering putting in an ADF because I actually quite like using them during approaches, but I am also very...
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