bob turner

Promoting safety and legal liability are not really related. If you don't have some form of liability insurance you are hanging it out no matter how...

I did my IA in 2003. It cost $70, and was a computer type test. Took about 30 minutes. Almost easier to do that than it is to do the yearly...

All of them seemed to roll out at 1077#. At least with the J3s they varied around 710. Mine was 725.

My wife, who is not a pilot and is not really thrilled with flying, can fly my Decathlon from the back seat. She sort of figured out how to hold the...

It might now be a mortal sin to modify a good PA-18-95. There are plenty of modified ones already, with empty weights approaching 1200#. I have a...

Noted the comment above about old timers flunking. Good mechanics are not necessarily good lawyers or even good students. When I drifted through...

Yeah, and 40 years ago the tests were free! My A&P cost $100 and a half day of effort - fifty bucks to Federal Exams in OKC, and fifty to the...

I believe that all Cubs of the J3 /PA-18 variety gain about a hundred pounds when weighed. If you have the factory numbers, and no zealous mechanic...

Sending cylinders to a shop - we get about 90% rejection. One poor little 65 hp has been down for three months. They went through all my spare...

Wow! RV spars are buckling? Glad I did not know that when I rolled an RV7 with inverted systems. Tell us more.

Yeah, but the ability to put LED strobes, GPS and attitude instruments, and maybe less expensive ADS-B on a Cub is an exciting prospect. It is clear...

Go over to the J3 Cub forum and search. All of mine have the straps split and bent on the bottom. Tank goes up, straps rotated in place, 10-32...

We have new pilots who go directly to the POH for everything. After takeoff checklist: throttle - Full airspeed - 64-72 kts cowl flaps - open...

Usually fuel related. For my AEIO 360, I have found that cracking the throttle, placing mixture to cutoff, activating the pump, then momentarily...

Steve Pierce. A participant here. Texas.

So the OP is looking for a 1954 C-180 to rent, and anything later will not do?

I have experience with 180 Cubs on Wips and 26" Goodyears, but haven't flown the Fowler flaps or the Dakota slots. Looking forward to both, someday.

So how much trash are you guys getting out of sump drains? Around here it is an exercise in filling the drain thingie, then dumping it back into the...

I knew they were slightly better flying, but I did not think it was dramatic. I only have a couple hundred hours in the early 180, and a lot of that...

Why does it have to be "early?" Plus One Flyers here in San Diego has a later version in the club, and we have maybe six folks checked out and two...

If you like flying, you cannot go wrong with a good J3 or PA-11. Only real difference - the 11 is 10 mph faster, and probably ten grand more. And...

Couple thousand above ground, VFR cruising altitudes do not apply. I think they start at 3000' agl. In hilly country you use the peaks for ground...

VFR cruising altitudes have a lower limit. Yeah, keep your eyes peeled.

As a college flunkout in 1962 I bought my Cub. With four degrees, I can still afford to buy and operate Cub-like aircraft. But not the...

Lot of stuff like that. Neat equipment is available for experimental aircraft including lights and IFR instrumentation. Consequences for failure...

Yeah, you are under a couple of misimpressions. The J3 may be an LSA, but it must be maintained just like any other lightplane - A&Ps for most heavy...

Fly Ties held pretty good for me, but when faced with long term storage I bury a cinder block with chain about three feet down.

Oh - no J3 Cub out there has survived unscathed. A new fuselage probably adds five grand. Original metal spar wings with rib repairs or new spars...

What does the fabric look like? This is just a guess - I would say clipping the wings chops ten grand off. If the fabric is perfect and the...