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Take care of business like the Italian government did after the Rome airport attacks in 1986. Outsource it to the Sicilians. They can deliver a very strong message to those Russians.

Then you are unable to read between the lines and/or unable to judge the horseflesh. In that case, hire an appraiser. Vref does not have people who work only for them. They will contract an appraiser and report his report to you. You can cut out the middle man by googling "aircraft appraiser". But if you are simply. afraid of paying 2000 too much on a 250K deal, the objective is all wrong.

Have to make a fuel stop due to heavy payload on my way to the BWI area from ATL. KDAN or KMTV, both look good but I need good rest rooms for the grandkids and wife. Fuel prices are close enough not a consideration.

10 minutes on TradeAPlane or Contoller.com will get you a pretty good feel for the market.

No one is immune. Some of the best IT departments in the world, some very sophisticated actors have been victims including Google. Nothing is 100% secure. There are armored car robberies, there are liquor store robberies. One has the highest level of protection, the other a modest level yet both are victimized. We as well as other nations have entire agencies dedicated stealing cyber secrets, even decoding encryption with massively powerful machines. We even have software to do it that makes it look like another state actor was the bad guy. When that software was developed it was put under the highest lock and key this nation possessed and it took exactly 30 days for it to be in the public domain. If security was a perfectible art, these agencies would cease to exist because their work would be a fools errand. Yet they continue, because they know....any system can be hacked.

Bob S50 is correct. Never fuel your airplane unless you are there. At the most I let the line guy hold the nozzle.

Sure looks like something is scoring the cylinder walls.

The real capability increase in WAAS is being able to plan both destination and alternates with GPS approaches. I questioned the need, but spent the money, since I purchased the airplane and. the WAAS upgrade I have had two times in which the mission was completed thanks to WAAS. The number of ILS approaches will likely decrease, not increase. The FAA did not put all that money into those SAT birds to keep having electronics maintenance visit an airport once a week.

I had my seats refinished by Fibrenew. (Fibrenew.com) About 400/seat. I am happy with the results as an interim solution until a new interior refit. Here is the before and after. Sorry about the orientation, I cannot get them to flip.

VAT. is not payable if it is exported to the US. Make sure the airplane currently has a US Export Certificate of Airworthiness Make sure the logs are complete and reflect the US Export Certificate of Airworthiness You will not be able to register the airplane until the FAA receives notice from Poland that it is de registered. To get a US Airworthiness Certificate it will have to go through a conformance inspection. Your best course is to go through a MSC that has experience in conformal inspections with the FAA or a DER. Expect this to be at least a 45 day process.

Seen them on King Air's with Century A/P. Should be common enough.

The last 3 ransomware attacks I have seen were caused by someone on the inside leaving the door open. Often times they are part of the scam. In one case involving a local county, the guy who left the door open was just hired as part of the cyber security team. A deeper investigation revealed he had a past. Cyber security is more than software, passwords and keys, the first point is to start with good old background checks on the humans at the consoles and to not put anyone in a position of trust until that has been cleared. As to not Garmin Pilot not synching across iOS versions this is not unusual. Most apps that involve "synchronization" in iOS will not go across versions including apps within iOS itself.

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Read "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America" as well as Boris Yeltsin's book, "Against the Grain" Also as to the vertical lathe, the Chief Flight Instructor at a school I worked at was a machinist on the lathe. He said the Russians that came to install it would joke that the lathe would be "good for the submarines". As an epilogue, a distant cousin of mine, (my mother's family are Germans from the Ukraine) who I sponsored was a machinist with experience on that make. He was asked to help disassemble and move the unit out of Sunnyvale. Look, the CIA is good, but so was the KGB. To underestimate them is hubris. Remember the US military industrial complex gave us the M-16 that always jammed. The Soviet MIC gave them the AK-47.

As Mike Busch about fueling at KSQL.

The Soviets knew. They delivered the world's largest vertical lathe to Westinghouse in Sunnyvale, CA in the 1960's. Why was it needed? To machine the prop shafts for nuclear subs. You cannot machine them on a horizontal lathe as they sag too much. The Soviet view was "if we don't sell it", the Americans will build it anyway.

Another lesson on why you never leave the fueling process https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/misfueling-cited-in-alaska-commander-crash/

50 hours or 90 days, whichever occurs first.

My aerodynamics prof who worked with Johnson used to have Kelly Johnson once a year. It was always a great session. My biggest laugh was when DefSec McNamara told Johnson that the F-4 Phantom was going to "blow the doors" off the F-104. It held the records for about 48 hours, then as Johnson said, "We pulled a stock F-104 off the line and reset the record to where it belonged".

Got, it. Pistons, rings, valves are no longer part of the engine and can be sent to any accessory shop. Which begs the question, why is the ECi cylinder AD listed under the engines rather than by themselves?

I never understand why pilots are so reluctant to declare low fuel states and emergencies. About 3 years ago, I had to declare minimum fuel after a thunderstorm exploded over my destination while on approach. After the missed I could not get ATC to clear me to my alternate, I literally was on a 100 mile downwind from the destination I just blew out. Things happen quickly when you are burning fuel so don't delay. I finally declared "MINIMUM FUEL". These days things happen PDQ when you do that. I was not only declared direct to my alternate, center cleared me for "any approach" at my alternate before I talked to Approach. When I talked to approach, they just asked what approach I was executing and did I want the visual to the parallel instead. I said, "Nope, we're locking her up on the ILS for an auto land. If we go around, it will be an emergency declaration." We landed with 40 minutes of fuel.

I recently saw an O-320 in a 172, running like a top at 2600 since zero time. The owner was so proud of it, swore it would make 3000 hours, then the head separated from the cylinder. The engine is no longer running, and the airplane is...no more.

It is correct they had a unit conversion problem, but that is a cop out., This is why you compare the "pre-service reading" to the "post service reading" x the fuel density per unit of volume. That way, ANY error is shown and indeed magnified regardless of units. The mistake servicing personnel make (and was made in this case) is to simply fuel to the mark on the drip or magna stick. Once you have done that you have "lost the tank" because a continuous "volume pumped" vs quantity shown (regardless if it was a stick or gauge) has been lost. Your only out at that point is to empty the tank and re-service with a known volume. Hopefully you have room in another tank to pump the lost tank over, then an operative gauge to measure it and pump it back. If not you are going to be tankering some fuel. This should be our way on our airplanes too. We should be always comparing the pre-service quantity to the post service and the volume pumped. Not simply pumping to a mark. That way any over consumption is noted and cause ascertained.

I've always said if I return to CA (unlikely) I would live on the Central Coast. Great area you live in.

Oh and on the "self service"? There is only one guy who services my Mooney....me. I may let you stand there and hold the nozzle, but no one fuels my airplane unless I am there.