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Wife, water, snacks, backpack, Travel John. My wife brings along her Kindle to read.

For traveling, nothing beats a K for speed & efficiency. As has been mentioned, the useful load will limit your range with 4 people. It can be done, but it will require management. I flew my wife, daughter and her best friend to South Padre Island a few years ago. You have to learn to pack light.

The Stockyards are worth the time in Ft Worth. For dinner go the The Cattleman's if you like a good steak.

Safe Travels!

I know of at least 3 non pilots who will be attending.

There is a turbine Bonanza based at my home airport. I know the guys who own it. It is for sale now. The real shortcoming is that turbines fly best in the flight levels and the turbine Bonanza doesn't have enough fuel capacity for the turbine to make sense, even with tip tanks.

I had to go around a couple of years ago at a Delta class airport after the student pilot landed on the numbers and did a full length taxi before exiting. The tower didn't say a word to him even though I was on short final and there were multiple opportunities for him to exit. I'm sure there are exact FAR's to determine "fault" on this incident. As for me, anytime I am not sure what I am supposed to do, I am going to ask. I am not going to "assume" a clearance. Sometimes on the ground it can be confusing at a strange airport at ground level. I'm not a professional pilot and I would rather take a chance on "not" doing something rather than "assuming" that it is the right thing to do. I have stopped before crossing a runway before to make sure I have clearance and I will do it again if I am unsure. Rude behavior on the air is never "good", in my opinion. The Bonanza guy passed up a wonderful opportunity to "keep his mouth shut" and added nothing positive to the circumstances, in my opinion.

Good on everyone who contributed!!

Yes. Mrs Hubcap will be along. She has never missed one.

I recently had a “small” issue. When the controller asked me for my approach request, I requested vectors for the ILS. The controller set me up on a reciprocal heading to parallel the inbound course. I was going along and started getting ready to get a heading from the controller when a new controller popped up on the frequency. I waited a bit and by that time I am a little over 15 miles out going the wrong way so I key the Mike up and let the controller know I have a request. He asks me my request and I told him I am ready to turn inbound. He kind of blew the heck up and told me “If you have a problem with the service I will give you a phone number and we can discuss it off frequency.” I replied that I didn’t need a phone number I just want a heading. He cleared me direct to the IAF and repeated his BS about me not being happy with the service I could call him. I hope he had a better day after he blew up on me.

My wife and I have volunteered at a number of hurricanes. We were in Panama City before it quit raining and it was the worst we ever worked. I have never experienced anything like this. Local law enforcement and out of town LE have always been amazing and welcoming to us. The level of chaos has to be experienced to believe. The kind of response from this local assistant chief is very uncharacteristic in my experience. I believe he is catching a lot of hate as the result of his actions.

Does the G500TXi have any airborne functionality the G3x lacks? Other than the ability to interface easily with other brands of equipment?

My POH calls for gear at 132 KIAS and flaps at 112 KIAS

Myrtle has the TSIO-360-LB….On a cold start, I prime 4 seconds with the throttle wide open and full rich. After priming, open the throttle 1/4” and she starts on the 2nd blade every time.

When I upgraded Myrtle’s panel we replaced all the rocker switches with circuit breaker toggle switches. The new toggle switches have a solid ON/OFF and are “off the shelf”. We also replaced all the circuit breakers as we have found out that some 40 year old circuit breakers begin tripping on a normal load.

Congratulations on a job well done!

Affirmative.

+1 for Will. He is extremely knowledgeable and a very pleasant individual.

The G3x cannot legally be used as an IFR GPS Navigator using its built-in GPS. It is legal to use the internal GPS for VFR flight. It is perfectly legal to use the G3x as a PFD while using a certified GPS navigator like the GTN 650xi.

While planning my upgrade, I had to ask many of the same questions. I went with: GTN 650xi GPS WAAS navigator plus NAV/COM GNX 375 GPS WAAS navigator plus transponder 10" G3x Touch PFD w / EIS 10" G3x Touch PFD/MFD GFC 500 Autopilot G5 backup GMA 345 audio panel Garmin remote comm - not sure of the number The only non-redundant hardware is radio based navigation. I wanted both the 10" screens of the G3x which reduced the real estate options for radios. I went with the 650xi and the GNX375. The 650 is primary and the flight plans automatically cross-fill to the GNX375. If the 650 fails the 375 will take over GPS navigation. So I have dual everything except radio navigation. My reasoning was that with VOR's being removed from service, the redundancy in radio navigation wasn't worth the expense. Technically I have 3 GPS navigators but the G3x isn't certified for IFR use. As far as compatibility with other brands of equipment; it was a non-issue as I went with all Garmin. I previously had a G500 and it was a good piece of hardware, I find the G3x to be just as good and it is engineered to integrate with the GFC500 autopilot. I am not suggesting that other options and possibilities aren't as good, but I couldn't be happier with my setup. Get what YOU want, since you are the one who has to be happy with it....and pay for it. As a side note on radio based navigation - on the way home from MooneyMax yesterday, I heard two requests for VOR practice approaches and the controller told them the only way they could fly them is if they had a GPS that would shoot the approach using the VOR overlay......because the VOR's were no longer active.

It was a great event. It was great to enjoy lunch with @donkaye & @LANCECASPER after the factory tour! An amazing experience!

I had both eyes done about 8 years ago. No starbursts at night around lights at all. I pass my physical with 20/20 uncorrected. I do use reading glasses.

It is going to be at Alliance….KAFW

I have flown straight-in to my home non-towered airport when coming in off a cross-country trip. It can be safely done as long as everyone is communicating. I have a video of a landing we were making with a departing plane about 100' off the ground as we are on very short final, and another plane is on downwind turning base while we were landing. Good comms and everyone stays safe. On the other hand, we have powered parachutes that operate out of our field that are NORDO. That is another story. We actually implemented airport "rules" for the powered parachutes that operate out of our field. That was done with the help of the local FSDO.

I have gotten false positives on my Garmin. I have called ATC to see if they showed the target …..negative. I don’t know what causes it, but it’s exciting.