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Roll of duct or gorilla tape strategically on floor in front of seat against something so it don’t slide back. LOL Works great.

80 mph is just fine.:-)

Yup I did!🤣😂🤣😂

Just pontificating. If that doesn’t work (along with re rigging stab). Then it’s either lose weight up front or make it heavier in the back. Pretty frustrating when you want to fly solo and LIGHT and the fair amount survival equipment all the way back with either Hyd skis or 35‘s isn’t enough...

Our PA-18 (160hp) we acquired had a MT 2 blade reversible pitch prop. Had a placard to have 150# in baggage if flown solo. Nice, flew fast and smooth. Removed it due to it being VERY nose heavy and with hydraulic skis it was so heavy approach speed was close to 50 unless you came in behind the...

Heard it from a company check airman when I complained about a recent procedure change. ” One person $hits their pants and now we all have to wear diapers.”

Left Dillingham, Ak due to lack of availiable instructors. Spent a month at my grandparents place in Rapid City and soloed and worked on private at B&L Aviation with Ed Mellon as my instructor. That was 37 years and 23,000hrs ago. I remember screaming at the top of my lungs when I poured the...

That 2”steel pipe with the worm gear clamps sounds interesting. Our planes are on East Golf ramp facing west across the street from Aero Twin. That whole area is a slight depression and doesn’t seem to get the full brunt of the wind as the more open parking areas. Last night the wind was...

Just curious what folks are doing to attach the 2x4 to the rear strut. I’ve just used duct/gorilla tape but even though I seem to get it on tight but during or after the blow it still gets loose. Like to see what others use or pics of a more convenient and secure method to secure the 2x4. I’m...

I gotta admit after all years I’ve seen this neglected J3 I’m impressed the wing/and struts haven’t collapsed. One year there was layered snow and ice quite a bit thicker than the picture. Never flys anyway tail wheel spring is broken and main gear has some issues. Seems like the engineers did...

A lifetime ago I watched a gentleman drink beer from a bunny boot. The boot didn’t leak at all.

Departing ANC earlier this month and saw what looked like a cub nosed over on the mud in the Little Susitna duck flats area. But this plane was resting on the steep mud slope between the grass bank and the rising water IN the river channel. Returned a couple hours later and the tide had already...

Sitting at the gate in a MD-80 cockpit at SEATAC.

Small bucket with notches in top to go over tube. Fits tight, does not interfere with stick stub and really doesn’t need the bungee that I have in the pics. Best of all it gives the pax a place to put their bag for ease of access. Sometimes the bucket comes in handy while camping, clam digging...

Kinda like CPDLC (controller pilot data link communication) in our planes at work. It’s nice for freq changes like that and non urgent instructions when freq is busy or missing a handoff. But the naysayers will lump this cool feature in with ADSB and assume now anyone who has it not only...

Years ago while in a local aircraft parts store I was about ready to throw down on an Atlee Dodge stick cover and the old dude there said save your money and use a 3.5 gallon bucket with cut outs on each end for the control tube. After years of using it……well it’s crude but nice. Don’t even...

If I had $5 every time I’ve said that very sentence I’d be a multimillionaire (Many years ago at a 135 air taxi got to deal with feds lots). In my career so far just this doesn’t apply to FSDO actions, the aeromedical division is a nightmare. Man, that sucks…. Hope your able to get that...

Guess they aren’t s$&t hot like the people that do fly them and constantly remind other pilots nose draggers suck. Just joking! But to honestly answer your question here are my thoughts. After 20+ years of airline flying based in LAX,SEA and ANC on the Mad Dog and 737 (I would consider those...

I was curious also but not surprised that this has been silenced. I imagine Halibut Cove is just like a certain community I grew up in Bristol Bay. If you have the right last name and lineage they can commit all types of crimes and even if they are caught……it gets swept under the rug. If any...

That’s an understatement……….nothing like getting paid to scud run with no gps or sometimes an old Apollo loran (if you were lucky to have one) with the red LED bearing and track (that usually quit in heavy precipitation). AND getting harsh critiques from a few of those old timers. It’s funny how...