Nigel, I am so excited for you. Man. So cool to have one on the way.

I paid about $16k for the WAAS upgrade. I think it was over $20k last time someone mentioned it. But I don't think you can do it anymore.

I *love* expensive. That's why I'm in aviation and not bicycling.

My funds are limited, though, which is why it is planes and not boats.

I still can't see the original images of the ceramic finish. Can anyone else?

You can train someone all day in the Cirrus but having spring-loaded controls for roll means that they feel the actual forces on the control surfaces incorrectly and, therefore, not develop the correct instincts for the various situations one finds in the first 500 hours of flying. If there are comp...

It's the baffles, I bet. One of the first long flights in our DA40 was after a long night of rain. I might have had 15hrs in the plane at that point. I moved it to a field further south, flying down on the left tank. In the morning sumping the fuel we got pink stuff instead of blue stuff from the ri...

I do not have that on my DA42 and it was not on our DA40. On several occasions my mechanic has put a piece following the front (forward) edge of the shield, since sometimes the light leak bothers me. I wonder if the application you have is better for defrosting.

C'mon, Don, 3 to 6 seconds is a good amount of time to practice your checklist, think about the things that are important to you, contemplate whether you put on clean underwear that morning... I barely survive when a SINGLE cylinder misses a beat. I had a hiccup on one of TWO engines the other day a...

Is a GPS *required* in Europe for IFR certification?

Angel City (and Bay City) Flyers will be adding their entire fleet to the list.