hotrod180

I disagree. You could say the same thing about installing a radio (or even using a handheld), an intercom, or any number of other "mods". Even...

My BM exam is due next month. I did my first one 4 years ago with the same AME who did my last few 3rd class medicals. I was planning on scheduling...

I would guess that the McFarlane rollers are not approved on the TCDS as a replacement for Cessna rollers-- maybe Cessna would have to give the...

153 Vne, no problem hitting that....if it's in kph ;-)

How long have you had those 26" GY's on the airplane, Bob? Seems like you were talking aout installing them not all that liong ago. 100 hours...

If you think it's tough picking a red paint for your airplane.... a couple years ago, I decided to paint my house red, so down to the paint store I...

First time I've heard of anything like that. If there is some sort of documentation for such a requirement, please post it here. Thanks.

Type clubs used to be the only game in town for information on our vintage airplanes. Nowadays I think the internet forums have obsoleted them, or...

I'm 63 & I remember "the coming ice age" also. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way. I like the way "global warming" got spun into "climate...

There's a Twin Bee parked on the ramp at Arlington WA KAWO. It was a hangar queen for many years at another nearby airport, but was ferried over to...

Maybe you can get a patch made up at the local outlaw biker embroidery shop.

As far as i've heard, this is the case. The 5 year / 500 hour inspections are still required. Plus, the ICA for the QMI kit only extends the...

I didn't know there was a JO'C museum in Lewiston, makes sense though. I hope that Salmon is keeping up with an Elmer Keith museum! Both led...

It's amazing what some twins are capable of ..... esp if you ignore blueline. A friend of mine used to do takeoffs like that in his 160hp Apache,...

I'd like to order two sets of stickers: one "26" Goodyear" & one "850 Airtrac". Thank you.

There are six Port-a-Port hangars on my airport. The value in them isn't so much the hangar itself, but the fact that it's on the airport with an...

That's a theory I heard & it seems very logical. As far as not masks, distancing, etc not reducing covid-- how can we know? If there had been no...

Maybe call Dash Air at Troutdale. Darryl Dasher flies a fat-tired Pacer.

Interesting. Dallesport WA is across the Columbia River from the Dalles OR, and only about 25 miles upriver from Hood River OR. I wonder if there's...

They're based in Hood River.

Original factory weight & balance info for my 1953 C180 indicates 238"-- +22" for the mains & +260" for the tailwheel. Mine has had 185 gear...

An outfit in Washington, Bushliner, is making some new replacement brackets that apparently have been found cracked during some inspections, but...

SJ, can you elaborate? This is the first I've heard of the BVT replacement hockeysticks (made in Australia, "PMA pending"), per supilot's post....

I recently heard a rumor that someone is developing another fix for cracked hockey sticks, apparently to compete with the QMI repair kit. Anyone...

I've never spent any time in the frozen north, is this what they call a sled dog?

In some ways having an engine monitor with all that information is like a hypochondriac having a medical book-- it's awful easy to think that...