The story of the Outremer sailing catamarans is that when you board for a race they go through your luggage with you and, for instance, cut your toothbrush in two so they can discard the wasteful half.

Ah, Cambridge is a much better recommendation.

It's an odd thing, but I have *never* flown a plane into Canada, or back out, for any sort of maintenance. I have often been traveling up there (my grandfather bought a place north of Parry Sound in 1950), and wound up stopping in at the factory, but ...

That is *very* good advice from Russ. I wish I had it back when I had a bunch of work done on my plane. They bent five pins when they were putting the LRUs back in and I had a failure on my first flight in the US, although I didn't understand it at the time. Tens of hours later it finally failed ...

Diamond has really good records for what it costs to maintain their planes and what sort of expensive SB's and the like show up. It's interesting that on a DA62, which I would expect to be a customer fairly used to expensive maintenance assets, does not provide a market for a program to maintain the ...

When I bought my first DA40 it came with a crazy two year or 600 hour warranty that paid for all service. I had no idea how nice that was until years later. I got my oil changed right at 25 hours. I chased a problem with the fuel gauge even though it was costing a fortune (eventually they flew a guy ...

Is it possible to get a short term government ID in Japan, or is it for citizens and residents only?

Do you mean the crack in the gel coat? Can you just wipe off the grease and cover that with some touch up paint?

I had accidents like that. So many NTSB reports I can read and say, "That won't be me, I wouldn't make those decisions." So many are fuel-related or pressing on in bad weather. Never me.

This one (and Scott Crossfield) is really tough. Could he have been a better, more safety conscious pilot? It ...

What was the conclusion? Manage to get back up in the air?

Flight aware shows it made the hop to KRUQ so I assume it is with SouthTec.

I spoke to a G650 pilot who said they lost an engine over ABQ and flew the plane up to Wichita where there was a better service center. (The service center communicated with them via that fancy texting system they have and suggested it.) It feels like one of those decisions which, with no passengers ...