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anyone been to Bethany Missouri lately ? A/FD says runway has loose rocks, wondering how bad it is really ?

obsolete ryobi charger, was for the ni-cad batteries. Rip out the guts, install a couple USB power supplies. Charge devices anywhere.

Back in the US from Australia. Snuck away to the airport this weekend and raised the hangar door for the first time in 2+ years. No fuel leaks, all looks to be in order except both batteries (out of the plane and on a charger) froze and broke. Must have been the 2013-14 winter

not my land and I've no right to criticize, but it's hard not to feel a little annoyed. If they had build the house a little further back and tweaked the driveway layout, there would still be a usable runway. I drew the old runway in red. The back deck of the house is where the old hangar was...

We aren't the only ones who mooch off this local farmer's farm strip, there are some other people who keep planes there. One of them is this kindly old man Byron, he looks like he's about 110 years old and he's just as friendly and affable as anyone you might imagine. He flies this little clown...

Age 12, the same age as when I took my first "lesson" in the neighbors aeronca champ. Hopefully she's hooked, the smile was glued to her face the rest of the day.

It's supposed to be summertime. What the heck is that white stuff doing here this early? Doesn't bode well for the coming winter.

Snapped at a small town filling station. Nice to see.

A few rambling thoughts from our last couple days (beechlist x-post) Early morning on the 23rd I was woken by a frantic phone call from someone I’ve only met in passing. It was a friend of a friend who is crewing on one of the smaller boats in the boxing day Sydney-hobart race. They had damaged...

Question for pilots in and around Muncie IN. We are looking at some possible locations for our return to the US late next year. As always, I'd like to line up a hangar first and make that the center of the house and school hunt. What is available in the area between Indianapolis and Ft Wayne...

kids passing through on dirt bikes left a gate open. Makes a few obstacles to saturday flying.

20 years after my first disastrous try at an aircraft partnership I'm giving it another try. Just added a plane to my signature. Didn't plan to do much flying down here but the opportunity sort of fell into my lap. It was a 2-way partnership, now a 3-way and decidedly NOT equally split...

I can think of a number of TFR's for which this wording would be applicable

A friend of mine owns a piper arrow that he leases. Recently he asked me to run him to an airport about 100 miles away to retrieve the plane and pilot. The pilot was unwilling to return on schedule due to thunderstorms in the forecast, and he needed the plane back because someone else had it...

there is no getting rid of these things. This one popped up near our place last week. I sometimes spray the field behind that tree line.

For everyone who bemoans the cirrus advertising and blames them for attracting the "wrong sort of pilots", a little history lesson is in order: it "makes flying more practical for those who don't have time to become "professional" amateur pilots"

Had a message on my phone this morning that I left on friday without paying for fuel in another state, and they want me to send it in. I think I'll hold off on other details until I figure out what's going on. Attached photo shows the current state of my plane. It's remarkably fuel efficient in...

last night was one of the few trips in the back of an RJ that I was happy to have not been in my own plane. The short trip from atlanta to peoria was slightly longer than usual

The stars or clouds or something were perfectly aligned the other night. Here's a screen shot from my iphone while it was getting emails and downloading foreflight weather graphics over 3G.

today she: took the controls after takeoff with the plane stabilized in the climb turned on course adjusted mixtures during the climb levelled off at the desired altitude set cruise rpm, map, and mixtures (dad helped synch the props) took a center handoff and checked on next frequency...