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Going on a month of getting nowhere, trying to branch out and see if you fine folks have any actionable recommendations for reliable engine shops in Texas. Figured if I'm going to cold call places on the basis of SGOTI, might as well ask here over relying on 6 year old reviews on Google. I'm...

...cuz I'm gonna be airplaneless for a while. Took ye ol lawnmower for the monthly run and do some intermittency troubleshooting on the gear I've been battling for a year since the last annual. Halfway up the climb I feel a somewhat abnormal vibration, which doesn't say much, as these lycos...

Apologies if already posted, saw from another board. VARMA rollout. Nice to see the EAA take the lead on matters AOPA should be spearheading for us fac-built hell captives. I don't see it being transformative, since right from the jump it limits the actual parts of consequence to the...

V-tail, no details on survivors yet that I can find. Weather in HOU was Cavu today.

Came in to pick up family, and fly back. Stuck with prop that turns but doesn't catch/pop/fire/you know what I mean, since Friday. Thought it was a hot start issue (common with the FI 360 but haven't personally had that issue in all my 8 years with the engine). Had to leave it behind and drive 7...

Well, to start off: the wings didn't fall off, so there's that. (suck it ERAU). Digressing. Day 1 took a bit of replanning due to crap weather all across the Gulf panhandle. Low IFR departure out of KBAZ, typical IFR re-route from filed took a while, then on course. Had to swing wide to...

Perusing through SBs and list prices for Textron actuator bodies and pivots for R182 and TR182s... and yeah done with that. I'm a Lyco fan, but even I recognize the limits of my religiosity. :D So then I stumbled into a blurb about the T182 (not 182T, not T182T.....thank you cessna...

Learned something new today. Anybody heard of why this isn't a thing in factory built land? 14 CFR 21.24 AC 21-37 Best I could research, the regulation hasn't been rescinded, so I wonder if it's a case of FSDOs stonewalling any request at converting a standard category airplane that qualifies...

Any decoder ring to these wingtips I'm not aware of? Trying to unscrew the position light baseplate and all three screws rotate with due resistance, but don't back out at all.

Just saw that on AOPA Live and got to reading. I used Redbird Skyport frequently during my pre-PCS house hunting and other errands that required me to fly in to the San Antonio area. Found the place great, the rental car logistics were top notch considering I wasn't even moving to San Marcos...

Complete plug for LAT on the part of fly8MA, but it made me think of this forum and the constant thrash about career changers and the idiosyncrasies of swinging the finances of a sector of the industry not particularly known for solvent livelihoods, and the perennial regard for flight...

Did a search, very little info. Anybody flown the TN Cardinal RG mod? How does it perform on climb and cruise? I hear the mod is like 40K out the door, and again doesn't seem to be very much at all posted online on performance specs. Does the modification even come with modified performance...

Paging @Velocity173 @Zeldman et al. Musing about what I want to do when they kick me out. Wondering if civilian paid flying is even in the cards. Priorities are: - Homestead friendly schedule. Minimize RONs, 7on/7off or the like. - Clear six figs after mil retirement (so essentially 70K +/- )...

Never seen it done before, guess there's always a first.The elusive trike ground loop. I've seen plenty o' loss of directional control on landing, but takeoff? That's a step up for me lol. Twinkie owners, feel free to chime in and give us the play by play on how to master this unicorn maneuver...

Just a heads-up to the mil crowd lurking on here. 14 CFR 61.73 changed effective late August 2018, now allows an expired CFI certificate to be reinstated without the need for a checkride, as long as you have a mil IP or FE checkride AF Form 8 (or USA/USN et al equivalent) valid within the...

So I just helped the wife to relo some friends in need, and though the mission was a success, holy crap I need a better climber and a more comfortable cabin. Looking at a 550# payload and 5 hour endurance for the main mission. 5% mission is a notional 800# payload and 3 hours endurance. 0.1% may...

As part of our research into a potential upgrade from the Arrow we're looking into partial or full geronimo mod samples of the Apache 160 (non-bench seat). At any rate, we're trying to find a flight school or willing private owner in Texas with an Apache that could spare a couple minutes of...

So I've read up on CFR 91.511, and per usual that's great and yet too-vague to be useful information as to the practical requirements for HF et al. Seems like there is no consolidated product in order to ascertain the actual service volume limits one is to encounter in the Caribbean for instance...

Had the opportunity to finally sample sitting on a Comanche 250. Thats the bench seat and enclosed bag compartment variant. Noticeable wider space for the front seaters compared to the arrow, as advertised. Sweet. Then I sampled the rear seats and ruh roh. Cramped leg room. Made contact with...

Final NTSB narrative finally available on an ex-coworker friend's fatal accident involving a power loss and impossible turn out of KABI more than 2 years ago. Not surprised with the usual belated and equally useless boilerplate from the NTSB, unable to figure out what caused the power loss, and...