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80 mph? I come in over the fence at 75 mph and if short field landing in no wind, shoot for 70 over the numbers in my "f" model.... 5 mph makes a huge difference in the airplane wanting to fly.

Do you seriously expect anyone to admit in a public forum that they use non-certified replacement parts on their certified aircraft? Personally, I just use the wonderful GE incandescent with the little stamp that triples the price while halving the life to land with. Even paid extra to get wheel bearings with the little stamp, too, although it's depressing to see the price difference at Auto Zone.

Another training aid that I had an instructor due that was very effective is to find a long runway and request a land long request. Then come in, flair and then fly it down the length of the runway just a couple of feet off the ground. Takes some practice but it's an incredibly useful tool in perfecting landings.

1000' normally, 2000' in mountainous terrain. Looking at an altimeter, "high to to low, hot to cold, look out below"

if you didn't order them - these are invaluable to both your sanity and fingers..... the item you are asking about is the c spec tool.

Bob, "Despite a lot of references to AGL, neither GPS nor a standard pressure altimeter will directly provide any info about AGL. (Unless the plane is on the ground.)" WingX provides altitude AGL on the Ipad1 as a new feature! Turns red when you get too close. It also colors terrain out front in red at and below your own alt... The government has been measuring and mapping surface/ AGL with great accuracy from sattelites for years. Just sharing Bob's point. Best regards, -a-

Jim is right, the McCauleys are great. But from my experience working on props, the Hartzell has the edge. For a couple reasons:1 The C214 is non oil filled, so the greese used during assembly is all the greese the bearings get till the next time it goes to a propshop. An the hub has a breather pin, which it has to have, but it lets condensation in. An that's what scrapes those bearings the bearings during overhaul. Corrosion, pitting, rust. That prop has 4 bearings @$500ea x 4. Reason #2, Is the back of the hub. For some reason where the pitch change rod comes through the hub, it wears out faster than normal, an allows engine oil to bypass the Oring an it fills the hub with engine oil , which will end up coming out around the blade socket Oring. The fix is a steel repair sleeve an some machine work....$ Hartzells have there issues as well. If you do not greese a Hartzell properly it will vomit greese down the blade. But I have noticed that the 2 an 3 blade Hartzell propellers seem to make it through the overhaul process with less high dollar parts having to be installed. If you take care of any prop as stated by the manufacture recommendation, all propellers do pretty well as far as holding up pretty well during overhaul. Being most all are on Part:91 GA aircraft, the operator does not have to comply with the 6 yrs or 2000hrs. Like with a Part :135 operator...... I don't work for Hartzell by the way. Just been my experience dealing with props for yrs.

You might want to pick up Donald Kaye's excellent video on landing techniques. In the video he talks about bouncing and the hazards of coming in too fast. He comes across the numbers at 70 knots. He did say that if given a choice when he bounced, he'd rather be too fast than too slow. If too fast, you have airspeed to salvage the landing. What's also key from his video is that if you don't hear the stall warning, you're too fast.

Here are a few before and after and side by side interior pictures showing what a can of Fusion (Krylon I believe) spray and some elbow grease can do. The overhead panel came out very nicely, unfortunately despite suggestions from this forum I was not able to remove the ventilation grills which also show well the before and after colors.

I thought this was required for the Johnson bar club!