I know this is a long shot, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to try. I’m flying Wally’s DA40 right now out of KARW, but have bought a house and will spend the summers in the western NC mountains from now on. I’m not yet ready to buy a plane, but would love to find a DA40 to fly in KAVL or nearby airpo...

For what it’s worth, in my last IFR training flight, I was under the hood and went to landing flaps a little after the FAF and my instructor had me go visual at that point. He pointed out that I was stabilized with T/O flaps, but then changed the aerodynamics of the wing when I changed the flaps. Hi...