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If the folks operating those airplanes on Wipaire 3000As fly with 2 people in the front seats and no people, moose meat, or about 50 pounds of ballast in the aft baggage area, they will be operating...

Also known as PSP; Perforated Steel Planking. Slippery as greased owl dukey when wet.

They don't. They do know the F.A.R.s though. Keep it up if you would like to experience a 709 ride with an FAA safety inspector.

If you're thinking of Whitacker Tandem wheels, they used 8.00 x 4 Cub wheels, not tundra tires.

Now that's cool. No battery solenoid equals one less component to fail......as long as the cable is in rig.

It looks like the airplane has a 23000 series airfoil. Bet its way faster than a Cub.

Don't know much about Commonwealth Sky Rangers, but they always looked like a well engineered and well built airplane. Am I correct that the airplane came from the factory with a C-85-12 engine and...

You were in pretty tall cotton with that carburetor, Dgapilot. If it that 985 was on a Howard, that was about as good as it gets.

We ran 2100 RPM while spraying. If you got yourself in a jam, it was everything forward on the power quadrant. That provided the max power RPM of 2300 and more than 36.5"HG of manifold pressure when...

We were both right.

Not that I haven't had to over boost an R-985 on a few occasions. I try to operate the engines I fly behind well within operating limitations, but some youthful indiscretions...

Those are from military technical order publications. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft had a different idea.

You were right about the aircraft ID in "North By Northwest". All the flying scenes used an...

36.5" HG max manifold pressure on a R-985 AN-14B, not 37". Same for an R1340, BTW.

It has been a long while but I spent enough time in 450 Stearmans, Ag-Cats, and BE-18s to remember power settings clearly. Max manifold pressure 36.5" hg and max RPM 2300. Climb power 30" hg and 2000...

This is a bad case of thread drift, but I have been peripherally involved with the film industry before as well. It does give you some insight as to why movie tickets are expensive.

"Devotion" was a movie that flew under the radar with the general public last year. With all due respect to Tom Cruise, It was a much better and meaningful movie than "Top Gun, Maverick". It was as...

I have a Yaesu 250 portable that I use as primary comm in our no electrical system PA-11. It works well connected to an external antenna with its five watt transmitter.

As Caz Air said, a scanner...

That "experience" was followed by the words "Wow. That looks like it hurt. I don't think I'll do that".

I am a highly experienced pilot. The experience consists of countless times of saying the words "Holy S---! I won't do THAT again.

I hate to break it to you, Paul, but doing stupid stuff never ends. It just becomes less frequent. That's why we say we are always learning.

You might ask "the guy" what model he has. The earlier model of this prop had more rounded blade shanks that did not add much extra push to the air entering the cooling inlets. The later 2F0K-C76AF...

I have no way to make the comparison with the earlier model, but I understand that people who are using the 2F0K-C76AF are very happy with its performance.

ATC facilities monitor 121.5 MHZ. Some air carriers require the monitoring that frequency while in cruise flight. The problem is that the latest crop of "professionals" contains several juvenile...

In answer to the original question, yes, plus what jrussi suggested. If VFR in equipped airplanes, I use flight following when it is available.

I also fly an airplane not equipped with an...

PA-11s are tougher than you think. Ours has 6400 hours on it and served as a primary trainer for the first forty years of its life.

The first owner learned to fly in 1918 and instructed until the...

Just goes to show that you can try and make an airplane dummy proof, but you can never be completely successful.

[I'm not against the NX Cub, BTW; its actually a brilliant idea for selling more...

Thank you, Steve. Can't blame Sensenich there.