I bought a Schauer initially but then I did some research and determined that it would probably cook the battery. I was able to sell it and bought a Concorde Battery Minder. No issues since then. I use a harness, not the GPU port. There are reasons for this that I have forgotten but it seems to be a...

I have often noticed that based on visuals I overestimate climb performance. I never trust my eyes, and for terrain rely on TAWS. But I learned that lesson playing with clouds.

Very sad. The pilot made a terrible mistake with the best of intentions.

“ You don’t need TAWS in the U.S. as you’ll get traffic through ADSB and the GTX345R.”

Just a small clarification, TAWS is Terrain Awareness and Warning System. I like SVT too but I find TAWS makes for a simple decision interface when you are near terrain.

We have a fully equipped 2008 DA40xls, purchased in 2015. In terms of options two things I didn’t think much of at the time of purchase but which I have come to really appreciate are Sirius XM weather and TAWS. I also like having the Avidyne traffic. I don’t have a/c or a Stormscope, and would want ...

I pull a wing back at the tip, have the missus place the board, and then pull it back over. You get leverage if you do one wing at a time. Sort of walk it on.

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We have been to KOSH a couple of times. If it’s really wet keep the power up until you park. If you are too timid you may get bogged down and have to use a lot more power. When that happens the prop vortices suck up crap and you can get damage. It happened to me at another field once. Fortunately it...

The only airways that are used in my province are Tango airways, and I load them all the time on my G1000.

More good news for DA40 owners perhaps - will probably only make our aircraft more desirable.

COPA (Canadian OPA, not Cirrus OPA) lobbied on the basis of a number of arguments with the Minister and Nav Canada: functional equivalency, higher Class B (that is the class of airspace above 12,500 in Canada) in Western Canada to permit crossing the mountains; weather info. It’s clear they hit a br...

There is very little effort by regulators to accommodate GA in Canada. In much of the country there will be no short-term impact but in the West it will now be impossible to cross the mountains in IFR for aircraft like ours since the minima are typically 13000’. Hopefully a work-around will be found...