Andy95W

I’m just bumping this thread since OSH is almost upon us. I have a question for those who responded that they “Don’t even want to go”- Just out of curiosity, have you ever been? Or have you been and don’t want to go back? I was like that 25 years ago, I’d never been and didn’t see the sense in going. (My wife and I go for 10 days straight now, I do volunteer work and she volunteers with GirlVenture.)

Exactly! Additionally- if you have a beacon, you’re still legal at night if one (or all) of your strobes are inop.

@hoot777- there really isn’t a baggage door “kit” for our vintage airplanes. If you want to be able to open the baggage door from the inside, you’ll need to modify your mechanism yourself.

Did it take you two weeks to compose your answer, or were you just angrier than normal yesterday morning?

Those people are probably already doing their own maintenance and just not putting it in the logbook. What we’re talking about is a means to help the conscientious owner legally log maintenance, and provide him a means to learn some things as well.

That’s cool- I was stationed at Fort Campbell 35 years ago. Did one of my student cross countries to OWB.

That’s why it would be similar to a CFI’s complex endorsement. If you forget to put your landing gear down, nobody’s going to sue the CFI that signed you off to fly a retract gear airplane.

That’s weird- Zep doesn’t smell anything like bananas to me. But I’m also one of those odd people that can’t stand the taste of cilantro.

Rich- you and I are thinking exactly the same, I was writing up the same recommendation when you posted this. It would be like a CFI adding a tail wheel endorsement or complex endorsement to your pilots license, it would be a simple signature and statement from an A&P/IA that you were authorized to perform a specific maintenance task on a specific aircraft type.

Good catch!

Replacing the flap bracket should be pretty straightforward. For the wing, you’ll probably want to contact someone like Don Maxwell. His shop can probably do the repair or recommend a shop that can. His shop will also be able to tell you if that one extruded aluminum angle can be replaced. I doubt you’ll need a whole new wing, but the cost will be significant either way. I think there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to get a ferry permit to fly to a repair location, but nothing more than that. Sorry you have to deal with this.

Please post pictures, and the part number of the seal. Thanks!

Unfortunately, the M20E gauge won’t work. The fuel pressure range is different (0-30 psi vs. 0-10).

I just tried that today on my Garmin G5 and it worked. Thanks Lance, that’s really helpful and I didn’t know that before!