Does anyone know how long it takes to get a new Cirrus SR22? Is it still 6 months or more for a delivery position? Thanks... Lenny

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I'm curious if anyone has ever done this: Purchase a used aircraft in California (my state of residency) and have it delivered by the dealer to Oregon. There it will stay for 91 days and be flown on occasion, then brought back down into California. My real question here is "if I buy the aircraft...

Just wondering if anyone has some experience on the above subject. I'm looking at building up some time (500 hours or more) within the next couple of years. My two options are to buy an older 172/Arrow etc or just to keep renting which is very expensive. If I can find a decent airplane, in the...

It occurs to me that I've somehow managed to avoid actually posting the details of my recent purchase. Some of you may have noticed (from some of my other posts) that I just picked up a new toy. She's a 1993 Socata TB9 Tampico (pictures are available on my company...

This is one for Jim Weir I guess... I had one of the Icom antenna switchboxes in my airplane until this week when I needed the panel space to let my handheld use the external antenna. I never really cared for that set-up, it appears it just uses a 1/8 inch phone jack with the switch in it to...

Well, I didn't want to infringe upon Dave Buckles' time in the spotlight, but I got my first plane on Monday the 1st. It's a '67 Skyhawk, 1570 hrs TTAF, 200 SMOH, with new (well, 2 yrs) Garmin VFR stack. Pristine. Glossy original paint, and excellent original interior. Ancillaries have been...

We are operating 3 Cessnas at a skydiving club. I'm looking for a suitable computer program to financially manage the maintenance/running costs in conjunction with time-sensitive components.etc etc Any pointers would be most welcome. Nigel Peart South Africa

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I need to replace the cowl mounts on my '73 182P. I see the choices are Lord or Skybolt parts. The Skybolt parts are a lot more expensive. Are they really that much MoreBetter? Note that the fasteners themselves were replaced last year when I painted the plane. -jav

Just when I thought we had the Skyhawk ready to blast off next week for Florida.....we took a little ride Saturday and on the way back she ran rough for milliseconds on two occasions. The 1st time was so fast, Donna didn't even notice. The second time she was expecting it. Any ideas? The...

We are upgrading the McCaully three piece main wheels and brakes on our 1977 172 N because of the unavailability of a brake cylinder that went bad. If you are faced with the same $2300 upgrade because of a cracked wheel or bad brake cylinder, we will shortly have the whole set, with one bad...

I was flying yesterday and noted on my GEM that on cyl #1, the EGT was normal, but the CHT was very low. Most of the time the CHT was off the scale low, so there was essentially no reading, but occasionally it would come up enough to be at the bottom or one bar from the bottom of scale. I can't...

As most of you know, the "Rogue's Gallery" is a picture website created solely for the use of Rec.Aviation pilots. Here we can all post pictures of our beautiful aircraft, so that the rest of us can drool all over them! :-) Here are the February...

Musings.. How stupid would you have to be to buy an airplane sight-unseen at Ebay motors? Just marginally stupid or something close to incredibly stupid? I'm not going to do it.. but it is temping to throw a bid in there. Russian roulette, yeah, but, heck, there's 6 cylinders in a revolver. :-) ...

For some reason the Clearcoat on my Mooney is starting to bubble off and peal away. I otherwise have a good paint job that I believe was done around '95. Sadly, a hanger is not possible around here. Is it worth it to strip the Clearcoat off and have it reapplied (can that even be done)? Am I...

Many people have asked me why I have generators on my airplane rather than converting to alternators. My airplane is a PA-30. The only legal alternator conversion is the InterAv STC. This is a non-redundant conversion - the alternators used require power to the field and the regulators use...

We've got a bag full of leather scraps, left over from our new interior job last fall. I would like to wrap our yokes with it, so that they match the seats and throttle cover. Anyone ever done this? I don't want to just wind the stuff around and have it look like crap in a few months. Should I...

I am considering purchasing a 2 or 4 seater. I can justify the cost of the plane, by the off set rental fees, but I am not sure how much I need to budget for other fees, insurance, tie down, gas, parts, maintenance, etc. I am looking to spend around 25k on the plane, nothing fancy, just...