The biggest threat to general aviation is the lack of discretionary income. I don't know how it is at your airport but where I keep my airplane in northern Michigan there are 78 airplanes based in the...
Saw that UPS DC8, I worked for a different company, We roughly figured 3500 pounds (about 500 gal) of fuel for a go around and a VFR pattern and landing.
Tim
I've got about 5000 hours in the DC8-73, that is the stretched airplane with the big CFM fan engines. In that time I made a few great landings,lots of good landings, some bad landings, and a few arrivals....
OK,let me supply a little information before we suggest a new IA. All post 1964 180's and 180's with to quote the parts manual "heavy duty gear" and all 185's use the same part number gear. 0741001-5...
This is in response to hotrod150's post regarding the 8.50 authorization letter, it is not a reply to him but is for the consideration of the group. I believe that in the last few years we have seen a...
On both sets of BAS harnessed I installed on a 185 and a 170B the reels attached to a BAS supplied bracket which was attached to the AFT spar carry through using the Cessna installed nut plate in the bottom...