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Scholler has a big roped off strip under the flight path where you can't park. Regardless of one crashing, the EAA recognized a risk in the past and still mitigates it today.

Ouch. That's a good ad for shoulder harnesses. Must..avoid...trees...oh...sh#&.

Yep. A few times, a very long time ago when they were relatively new. So far I've seen about a dozen low time SureFly failures in the last year. History repeating itself? I know guys that replace coil packs in their cars every few years. By your logic, with newer car engines being so reliable...

No screen on a lycoming.

https://kellyaero.com/magneto-noise-filter/ I'd be surprised if the caps on the firewall still do anything after 60 something years. The extras on the mags aren't stock and were added by someone to try to fix an interference issue that should have been solved by the ones on the firewall. The...

Really depends on your definition of miserable. We used a Walmart cabin tent with a double high air mattress for five years. Big and comfy. An extra 200’ of rope and a dozen pegs kept it upright and mostly dry. Always had a USMC combat tent as a backup, but never needed it through all the storms.

Which, I believe was Tuesday. The Misty Blues all women skydiving team doing a night drop with four jumpers. After the stol demo and paramotors, and before the rc stuff.

That’s more of an EAA thing. Every year they push a little bit further in trying to find out how much less they can do while charging more. No more Monday concert, because covid. No golf carts roaming the grounds helping handicapped people like last year. Can’t expect an organization that...

I’ve never seen Sholler so packed so early. By Sunday morning I half expected to see tents setup on top of rv’s. There were even people camping in the ditches. Bike corrals are spilling on to the roads. Can’t get on the blue tram mid route as usual. Tri-motor sold out by 10am. Even without the...

The only way to cool down, sit in a comfortable chair, or eat a reasonably priced meal is to hike back to your car and leave the grounds. Eight hours walking in the heat is a bit much for us. Besides, half the fun is after the show and meeting new people. You miss a lot by heading back to the...

Don’t write off camping in a rental rv. Being able to take a break during the day beats having to leave the field. My worst experience by far was staying in a nice hotel in Fond du Lac.

In Scholler, even the dogs are motorized. Saw a guy walking a Boston Dynamics Spot by the laundromat.

I don't have javascript disabled and it's still blank. Unless the content is being delivered from a questionable source that's on most dns block lists, the site's broken. Not a good look for a technology company. Oddly, all the sample pages work.

When things were slow I’ve definitely heard Fisk ask for a preferred runway.

Know how to juggle more than one customer. I was already looking at a new LS headset when the sales clown literally yanked it out of my hands to show another 'customer'. The three I already had were tossed instead of repaired when they failed, and LS never saw another cent from me and never...

New cylinders from Lycoming are still slow to get. Superior isn’t too bad. OH’d cyls isn’t a bad option if yours are first run. Price depends on the quality of your core. Bad crank or case, prepare to get hit hard with a core penalty. Last I checked we were quoting a 16 week turnaround.

A large number of campers stay for the Wednesday night airshow and then get out Thursday morning. Checkout is noon, so getting there real early just means less available spots. I'd shoot for 10-11. Parking at the gates is bad and getting worse, and idiots are starting to deliberately walk in...

Only solution I got is for Mac. If you can get your hands on a used, 10 or so year old Mac Mini, stick it in a closet and run handyPrint.

Your garden hose analogy assumes the flow stays the same. The engine pump flows more in relation to engine rpm. So it's like opening up the tap more as you take your thumb off the hose. If the supply increases enough, there will be pressure. More flow than needed = higher pressure. If you can't...

Ask yourself, does that sound right? We have redundant systems and fail-safes for safety, but the mfg is ok with running the fuel supply at the ragged edge of starvation on climb-out, while using pumps that wear out and screens that get dirty.