midlifeflyer

I’d go with the VFlyteAir Arrow. You’ll also get a little glass. It comes in two flavors (you get both). One a decent dual G5 emulation with G500 autopilot (I did a little beta testing for the avionics). The other, a decent Aspen emulation.

I'm almost surprised that, considering the carb heat control position, they didn't change the the checklist to "as needed." But some engines are more conducive to carb heat than others, so that might have been a consideration (if the issue came up at all). With that kind of arrangement, if I chose to follow the checklist and use carb heat as a preventive measure, I would be doing what @takair does - closing carb heat on short final.

Here. Pretty much identical to the location in a carbureted Cessna 172. Looks like there was a change to a power quadrant like yours in the C in 1969.

Different configurations. I had this in mind.

Your observation aligns with one made by the NTSB. They studied carb ice and found this as well. Ended up recommending that manufacturer checklists which only called for carb ice as needed be modified to call for its use as a preventive. It was ignored. I suspect ignoring it was at least in part because of the difficulty of pushing it in as part of the go around in some aircraft. I immediately think of the ubiquitous PA28 series (POH: “as needed “) and the location of its carb heat control, as compared with its location in a Mooney or Cessna.

@47U, yes, in most carbureted airplanes it’s part of the run-up system check.

This may be a bit of a tangent but it crossed my mind reading this thread… for those who have two GPS/NAV/COM units, say, two 650s or a 750/650 combo, how are you using them beyond redundancy and com? I’ve noticed a reduction in full-featured combos in favor of just a second com or VLOC/com in recent years and wondered whether it’s merely cost or that there isn’t a good use case.

… in a different way than most think. When I fly with a pilot who has become over dependent on their AP, the hand flying/scan comes back quickly. It’s the ability to anticipate what’s next that seems more difficult to get back. We kinda stop thinking/saying, “when I get to [X], I need to [something lateral], [something vertical], and [maybe something else]” and just leave it to George. We fall behind the airplane.

I don't know but there's an easy way to find out. Go to https://www.aopa.org/go-fly/aircraft-and-ownership/buying-an-aircraft/aircraft-valuation and see if you can log in with your membership username and password. It's AI-based and I have no idea if the data it's accessing is domestic or international.

Yes.

Chapter? Are you talking about the non-US member organizations that make up IAOPA? If so, I think that’s a federation of independent organizations and benefits would depend on the local group.

That’s why mice were new. Pre Windows. I didn’t do terminal… Well, I guess I did play a little with APL in college, but never really got into them until I bought a PC XT clone. I was dragged kicking and screaming to Windows. Managed to skipped it until Windows 95 and then I had to. (BTW, I loved OS2)

I’m old enough that at some point mice were new, so it was all keyboard shortcuts.

Well said. I customized my Word interface years ago, so it’s not a problem, but I swear they move Excel features around to hide them.

I didn't take the question to be about "ignoring," but "undoing." If the STC is only paperwork, it adds an additional wrinkle.