PoAdeleted5
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AOPA Commander Countdown. I'd be happy to take it, but it just isn't inspiring me. The Twinco, man, I wanted that one. I read every story about the repair and restoration and feature bloatitis being installed on it.
This year's commander ain't doin' it. The plane, while nice, isn't inspiring me. It's being loaded up with stuff that I just don't care about, since it is all stuff I can't have anyway. When they are done with it, it's not a whole lotta airplane either. I'm not dissing the Commanders, they are great planes with a lot of good things going for them.
Also the articles have been really sketchy. Woohoo, new engine from Lycoming. What about a story of how Lycoming builds them or heck, a pic of truck picking it up from the dock or something. Nahh, just a sentence or two, "Ordered an engine from Lycoming. It came." I want to see photos of the video-game electronics going in, the challenges putting it together and maybe what the story is getting it approved. Who did all the work getting it prepped for paint? What did they find after all those years lurking in the sheet metal? Heck, I like reading about the repair process, makes my troubles seem less troubling somehow.
Just not much there anyway I look at it.
This year's commander ain't doin' it. The plane, while nice, isn't inspiring me. It's being loaded up with stuff that I just don't care about, since it is all stuff I can't have anyway. When they are done with it, it's not a whole lotta airplane either. I'm not dissing the Commanders, they are great planes with a lot of good things going for them.
Also the articles have been really sketchy. Woohoo, new engine from Lycoming. What about a story of how Lycoming builds them or heck, a pic of truck picking it up from the dock or something. Nahh, just a sentence or two, "Ordered an engine from Lycoming. It came." I want to see photos of the video-game electronics going in, the challenges putting it together and maybe what the story is getting it approved. Who did all the work getting it prepped for paint? What did they find after all those years lurking in the sheet metal? Heck, I like reading about the repair process, makes my troubles seem less troubling somehow.
Just not much there anyway I look at it.