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Hey everyone - we’re getting a “high” CO alarm in our Cessna using a CO Experts monitor. Can’t find any leaks. Is it normal to have some CO values at idle? I am away from home so some urgency. We were getting a value of 35 PPM taxiing around the airport. There are a ton of other planes and...

Just for fun, I’m calling the peak of plane pricing as of today. Interest rates going up, fuel skyrocketing, plane prices themselves having spiked, war. I’m calling it. I’ve noticed a number of peak-of-the-market planes have been sitting on the market and lowering their prices. What do you think?

I usually do IPCs for instrument currency, but lately have tried to maintain it through flying practice approaches with a safety pilot (we get very little flyable IMC where I live). I’m finding myself in this situation where I just got current again right at the end of the “six month grace...

https://jalopnik.com/former-olympian-might-have-staged-a-plane-crash-for-vie-1848272133 Seems fishy no doubt. Oh, good thing I'm wearing my parachute!

Hey everyone I am stranded at the moment. Took off, got an alternator inop light and faint smell of burning rubber. Landed, took off the cowl, and somehow I am obviously missing the bolt that holds the alternator in place. I don’t have many resources at the moment being away from home on a...

Does anyone have any real-world experience putting a new prop on their plane? Did it impact performance? The prop on my plane seems tired. It may just be cosmetic, but I do wonder about replacing it every so often. It’s an old McCauley, probably designed 40 years ago - or more - and could...

Recently, I filed IFR to depart an unfamiliar mountain airport due to smoke. It was marginal VMC at worst, I’d say, but since the smoke was bad and I didn’t know how much worse it was going to get along my route, and because it is often worse at altitude (or really, since you’re farther away...

Hi everyone, yes, I used the search function. Yes I googled, and yes I read the AvWeb articles. But I think I'm saturated in information at this point. Can someone just tell me where to spend my money? I'll send you my CC info hah. I'd like to buy a CO detector for the plane that... - Is...

The other soaring thread made me think about how much I'd like to get into soaring again. The trouble is that the sum total (about 30 hours) I have in gliders was almost 20 years ago, which is one thing. The other thing is that for whatever reason, my glider instructor really wanted me to...

We have a Cessna 205 and it’s truly great, but our family seems to need yet more room. We have two boys and manage to absolutely stuff the thing full to the point that it’s uncomfortable. But where do you go from there? If we were going to bother with an upgrade, it’d have to be a lot faster...

I really like reading the Forecast Discussion, especially for long range weather planning. But I'm just curious: does anyone else feel like they are consistently more pessimistic than A) other forecast tools, and B) the actual weather? I feel like if I were to rely only on the Forecast...

https://www.avweb.com/avionics/adsb/uavionix-launches-pingstation-2-ads-b-receiver/ So... isn’t this what everyone was worried about? I don’t really know how it’s different than Flightaware, but it allows you to track ADS-B from the ground. Lots of ostensible good reasons to do so, but I can...

I found a duplicate post in “cool places to fly”, but since that is a dead zone, I wanted to get this in front of the broader audience: The National Park Service is attempting to close the Stovepipe Wells airstrip in Death Valley. This is a unique and historic airstrip that allows access to...

How much is involved in converting a 206 that is currently on floats (either amphibs or straight) to wheels, provided all the parts are handy? I am constantly eyeing turbo 206s which have been impossible to find, and all the recent ones have been on floats. If one were set on buying such a...

My wife has decided that she would like to buy a boat. I am very supportive of this, because I am the only one in the relationship that ever spends any money, and now I will finally have something to hang over her head! :) We went “boat shopping” yesterday, and I learned a few things that I...

I was flying to Winnemucca, NV (KWMC) the other day on an IFR flight plan. It was a CAVU day, but I was in the system just to keep my skills sharp. Approaching from the north, the wind was also from the north so I would like to be shooting either of the approaches to 14, and circling to land...

When starting my engine (IO-470) I occasionally get a backfire right before it “catches” and starts. This is especially common when the engine is already hot. I have been under the impression this is probably mostly harmless, but not ideal. Why does it happen, and is there anything I can...

With a GTN 650, if I enter an altitude above a waypoint and want it to give me a notification of when to start descending, where does that notification display? The only place I can seem to find the annunciation is on the VCALC page where it says something along the lines of “begin descent in...

Doing a little office-chair dreaming this morning, but does anyone have any experience operating a 207 for personal use? Here's the thought process: I've determined that a legacy (pre-restart) turbo 206 is really the right plane for my family, but they have been incredibly difficult to find...

Hey everyone, I’ve had my IFR rating for about 10 years but have been non-current for most of that time. I recently got current again and have about 750 total hours, but very little actual IMC. I’m considering a trip this weekend from Boise (KBOI) to Coos Bay (KOTH) departing Saturday morning...