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Keeping stainless screws in good shape starts with using the highest quality of screwdrivers and selecting the best fitting size for the screw. You can dress some of the burrs with a needle file. Just know that most stainless screws are soft and it’s often cheaper and quicker to replace. As...

I once worked for Dr. Irv Gleim of the Gleim Red Pilot Books fame. He said the motto at Gleim is “We’re often more honest than polite.”

There are three types of airports: Controlled, Uncontrolled, and Out of Control.

Desert city in the middle of the Ocala National Forest R-2910A

The clean Osage flowing into the muddy Missouri.

Alex Smith, the last of our charity’s students, flew our Super Legend today as he leaves for Air Force ROTC indoctrination at the University of Central Florida tomorrow. Great kid with a bright future and a major haircut coming soon!

Obviously was to make a felt washer, but even easier is walking into a band instrument repair shop and asking for a valve washer for a trumpet.

Yes. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/may/18/bahamas-welcomes-basicmed-pilots

An easy solution is to bypass the heat shroud and run fresh air to your heater outlet. Run CAT from there under the seat to the back. If you want to be fancy, add a shop vac attachment to the end of the CAT. I do the same addition for backseat heat in the winter.

I use MAPP gas for these tasks and Free All penetrating oil from NAPA. The biggest advantage you can give yourself and have the best chance of success is to secure one end so you aren’t working against yourself. Heat/Oil/Heat/Oil/Twist. If you have a chest freezer, throw the entire unit in...

Disappointed as well. AeroLED’s have provided great products and customer service.

Yet, they don’t drive their vehicle that way (usually). New tailwheel students like to stab the brakes. My advice to them: “I shouldn’t know when you’re applying the brakes.” STOL training excepted.

The edge of The Everglades.

If you mix the baby powder with rubbing alcohol, it can be applied has a spray from a squirt bottle. It will dry relatively quickly and adhere to surface.

I’ve had good luck with these. $7.50 on Amazon:

American Legend has these in single and double switch varieties.

One of the benefits of that area (besides great barbecue), is that many of the airports with paved runways/fuel, have grass runways as well. I’ve also found that many owners of private airports in that area are welcoming, especially when your advanced call to them mentions you fly a Cub.

Lisle 17892 Transmission Drain Pan on Amazon

FAR 1.1 Night means the time between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight, as published in the Air Almanac, converted to local time. Of course, student pilots are confused by what I call the FAA’s Three Interpretations of Night: Sunset to Sunrise: Nav...