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Is it possible that Garmin is releasing something new at Oshkosh that you may want to wait for?

Sounds like you mean vinwiki but for planes. There'd be zero money in it but the kind of idea I'd help support.

My instructor and I flew from Phoenix to California to try an approach in real IMC for the first time (for me), and when we got there weather was far worse than expected/what was shown and briefed. Shot a LOC (where I learned the importance of making sure I brief the glide slope angle) and had to go missed. We shot the approach, went missed, did a hold where we briefed the surrounding airports and our fuel (which I had taken off with appropriate IFR fuel plus some), and realized Yuma was probably the best place to go, the weather was so bad -- definite VFR. When we got there, they kept asking us to hold, giving us vectors to wait for the F38's to land, etc. I was about to declare minimum fuel at one quarter tank and one 1/8 tank. They gave us the runway just before that. After that, I learned the importance of how planning can be real. Plan the departure, the en route, approach, the hold (x2), and a viable alternate far away from the weather (for my skillset). It's made my M20K range a lot shorter, sadly, but I've never been frightened again. All that to say, good point and @201er could add another poll question here about what are your personal minimums for an alternate. Mine is "two alternates, far away from weather, virtually guaranteed to land at". edit: The flight was KIWA A39 KSEE KNYL, shooting the LOC-D which is a 6.88 descent. Whew.

Did you know you got it when you received the mail? That’s it?

Anyone know what the turnaround time is on a CANPASS application? Just submitted them for my wife and I a week and a half ago (maybe two?) and waiting to hear back. I've heard it could be up to 5 weeks, but does anyone know if it's typically sooner or later than that? Is there a page where you can check the status? I can't seem to find anything like that.

Depends on what you're doing. I'm a software engineer specializing in distributed applications, and it's a little sketchy. I can say for sure that a LOT of user-interface jobs are going away. I just made an account on a site called Vercel, where it writes and deploys web applications for you. The idea is that you *always* write it through chat, and the chat history duration just goes on for as long as your account is there. It's really good. Which is terrifying.

With ForeFlight being bought out by a private equity firm, this stuff couldn't have come at a better time.

Woops. Thanks. I looked but missed it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pirate-bay-carl-lundstrom-dead-plane-crash-b2714284.html According to this, him and his Piper Mooney Ovation crashed. Lundstrom, who was also a member of the far-right Alternative for Sweden party, was travelling from the Croatian capital of Zagreb to Zurich in Switzerland when his plane crashed. The 64-year-old businessman was flying his Piper Mooney Ovation M20R, the party said, confirming reports of his death in a Facebook post on Tuesday. Lundstrom was alone in the plane, they added. The propeller plane split into two after crashing into a wooden cabin in the Velika Planina mountain in the north of Slovenia on Monday. Bad weather prevented rescue teams from discovering the body and parts of the plane inside the cabin until Tuesday, AFP reported. ... The plane likely crashed due to spatial disorientation in bad weather, local media website 24.ur reported. It added that the aircraft started spiralling downward from the altitude of 2.5km.

Not mine. A friend loaned me a space in MN and he had carpets over gravel for now. that’s a pain to use the manual towbar on. I’d have to rock it to get some momentum to move it.

It definitely goes to a fuse. And yes it's safe.

We have two X5s and they’re too big for our 231. Even fitting one is just too big and bulky. Definitely not going through the baggage door.

Out of curiosity what's a fur sewing machine? (as in, what make/model..) I'm actually ordering a machine today (I hope) for something not fur, but just wondering what the differences are.

What do those look like? I don't remember being quizzed on those or finding them on the sectional. Any example?

My iPad overheats so often on takeoff and landing in the AZ summer that I just count on my avionics and a scratch pad, and having an iPad would be nice. It's mounted to the yoke, with a PIVOT case. The case probably exacerbates the situation a bit, and it's always sitting right in the sun. So, essentially the same as @N201MKTurbo