Do you take the cowl off a 172 when you pre-flight it? I have never and was never taught to do that. Besides the gaping hole in the m20c cowl should allow you to peek at just about everything. Jon Kraus PP-ASEL-IA Student Mooney Owner '79 M20J @ TYQ

We've put our first 100 hours on our Aztec since buying it mid-August and this weekend we had the 50hr and 100hour AD's complied with. Fuel leak inspection (50hrs, pilot can do this one), Fuel valve/cable inspection, Engine mount inspection, Exhaust system inspection. Everything looked...

I have added a few extra aircraft items to my current ebay auctions. Piper retractable nosewheel trunion casting (used on Arrow, Lance, Saratoga, or adaptable for larger homebuilts) Piper scissor link part number 67145 Antique aircraft carb heat valve restorable I also have a TEAM Airbike 277...

I wound up inheriting a student. Older guy (in his 50's) who had taken lessons on and off, and finally finished. Brand new private pilot, well over 100 hours at checkride. And he went out and bought a Bonanza. And not a little one, either - a 1970's A-36 six-seater. His CFI at the local FBO...

Our JPI EDM-700 engine analyzer may have paid for itself today. Here's the scenario: Mary is PIC. During her run-up, the left mag dropped a bit more than the right. She leaned it back (the usual fouled-plug procedure) and it smoothed out to within specs. Still not as smooth at the right, but...

Okay, its getting boring so, here is a new twist on an old subject. Beech and Cessna have recently seen HUGE increases in demand for aircraft with the G1000 cockpits. Will this cause them to rethink the introduction of a new piston design to compete with the new players? If so, how long till you...

I have been trying to determine the length of a runway that would be considered a "short field" for my Archer II. The two instructors that I work with on occasions disagree on the amount of flaps to use for takeoff at gross weight. One guy says my airfield with a 2,800ft runway is a "short field"...

We're looking for sources to buy a set of retread 700 x 6 8 ply tires from. The guy we bought our Aztec from only had 6 ply tires on the main gear. 6 plys aren't rated high enough for our gross weight and the POH clearly calls for 8 plys. There seems to be a shortage of 8 ply cases in this...

I want to protect my vacuum instruments with a filter between the vacuum regluator and the (dry) vacuum pump on my 74 Archer. Spruce sells the Clearview for about 50 bucks, and sells the filter plus mounting hardware and STC for about 85 bucks. Does anyone have any experience with this or other...

I was wondering if someone could give some insight into the various options for a carb temp guage for my 67 skylane with a Continental 0-470.

A new beauty there : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/717735/M/ Dummy

In addition to my owning update, my ISP also changed news servers, and I took the opportunity to change my handle. So... this is the poster formerly known as "The Weiss Family". Well in about six weeks of ownership, I've put about 35 hours on my Beech Super III (and more money than I care to...

Howdy, How does FAA type certification relate to intellectual property rights? For example: everything in an O-235 has been out of patent for years now. Same with old aircraft designs. Is there any reason why somebody couldn't tool up and start ripping out O-235s, and selling them new? I ask...

Howdy, My Requirements: 3 Humans, 4 hours, VFR, ~ 100 knots. Put these in order of preference: Piper Tri Pacer: Pros: Low acquisition Cost, Tri gear Cons: Often neglected. Ground Handling, old panel, parts support.

This is just one man's numbers, but they are real world and may be of interest. I am particularly anal about my aircraft expenses . . . every nickel spent on flying (including buying toys and gadgetry, charts,, landing fees, fuel, WHATEVER) is kept in an Access database. There are the following...

I fly my bird about 50 hours per year. I was taught by an old-timer that 50 hours was fine for oil changes and that a year was an acceptable calendar period. In the other threads it seems many have a higher frequency than this. Would people chime in with how often calendar and flight time...

Every 172 I've ever flown has had so much air pouring in around the left doorpost that the pilot's air vent was superfluous. I've thought about wearing a ski mask for winter flying. I, and many others, have always thought it was coming in through the stall horn and just something you had to put up...

Peter wrote: 1. What sort of price could one get for it? It is covered by a 2 year Honeywell extended warranty, starting Oct 2004, which I believe is transferable. New ones are going for a bit over $1,700. I would auction it on Ebay with a minimum bid of $850. 2. What documents, if any,...

Go to ebay and search for completed auctions. Mike MU-2 "Peter" wrote in message ... Like a lot of European pilots are are being forced to install Mode S in 2005, I will have a 3 year old KT76C, in mind condition, for...

Our Cessna R182 is getting CO in the cockpit. We've now had three different shops look at it multiple times, all to no (complete) effect. They've done things like resealing the firewall, the gear-wells, the exhaust, and the like. But still we get CO. We've swapped CO detectors around between...