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You MAY disable the Arrow auto extend. It is not required to do so. As I understand it, the rental one at my home field still has it operational. IIRC, it is purely airspeed (did my Comm ASEL and CFI ASE in Arrows). Including MP seems like it would have been a smart move.

Maybe not totally flat, but look at pics 2 and 3. It is definitely very low.

Naval Aviation Museum is also excellent, but not on the way for the OP. And it reopened for visitors in May.

The claim bourbon soaked raisins, but they it is cooked.

This is what I do for practice when VFR to one of the local towered fields. Although one, KFDK, is fine with just calling tower and telling them what you are doing. I normally tell them the 2 or 3 approaches I want to shoot, so they have an idea. If I am IFR for a $100 hamburger with another pilot, I tend to shoot at least one approach at the lunch stop, so I see new approaches. The FBO at my home field has an ALSIM. I did much of my IPC using it, with a 1.3 in actual airplane to do the two landings required. I have not used it since, but it is an option if I get close to currency cutoffs. Right now, I am current to the end of July. One more approach and good to the end of August.

Old paint just means it needs to be repainted sooner.

I am looking forward to putting faces to names from MS. I was going to head out on Wednesday, but progs are not looking great. So may blast down on Thursday

So how do you end with with one main up, one partially and the nose tire flat. And the nose gear looks close to fully extended.

I flew with my hand on the fuel selector until the first sputter, and flipped it. It sputtered a bit and then smoothed out.

Many companies will not write insurance on above a certain age and retract.

I don't think gear up. One main is collapsed and one partially. Nose tire is flat. Hard landing? Maybe after a few bounces.

Yes, it gets better, but I still feel that the analog for altitude is easier to fly. And I flew tapes for number of years in the HUD, so used to them.

When I ran a tank dry to calibrate some dipsticks, I got some sputter, but it wasn't bad (injected). I was thinking about hitting low boost, but it smoothed out.

Just did a lunch flight to Bowling Green. National Corvette Museum. And a pretty good lunch grill. The Jalapeno Crisp burger is GREAT. And leave room for the Bourbon Bread Pudding. Nice FBO. One caveat, the fuel price is BEFORE tax. $5.99 full serve, $6.23 with tax. About 4 hours or a bit more from Harrisburg.

The 760 has an AHARS and GPS. I mounted the one I had to the right side panel with velcro. Flying today, it started showing about a 3 degree bank with the aircraft instruments shows wings level. Over time, that resolved itself. But in level flight, it was showing about 5 degrees nose up.

Heck, you can't even get accurate weather observations some times. Coming home today, all the local reporting fields were gusty winds. 7 - 12 knots on the low, 20 - 30+ on the high. Forecast was for the winds to drop. Winds were around 300 and home field is 1./19. So decided to give it a try, being cocked to going around and going to a nearby field with a 30 runway and waiting for the winds to drop. Winds were less than 10, almost down the runway, no gusts.

But the ALT and AS bugs are not that prominent. But there were several human factors studies that show that analog instruments are much quicker to determine if things are basically OK. Even better, if you turn the gauges so that in normal operation, all the needles are the same orientation (IIRC straight up or down was best).

I think there is a bit of, "I can make it." And heck, there are plenty of places, so I can just stop and fill it up. Not thinking, that they have to have enough gas to get there, fly the pattern, land, and taxi. But I agree, that is one common mistake that I just have to shake my head.

Again, it is not linear. When I went from 100,000 or 200,000 to 1 million liability, it was DOLLARS per 6 months, as in less than $10 extra.

They do. They work fine in high humidity. Of course, they can lower the temp to the dew point and you get some fog, but it will also lower the humidity in the plane by condensing it on the coil.

You only need currency to carry passengers.

Internet forums are like real life. You go to an event. Someone starts talking about something. Others join in, then the conversation starts drifting. It happens.

Thanks. FYI, I have a FS-510. But it looks like the 52R.

I had this a week ago in NE MD. No WX at my home field, but the nearby reports were 6 miles viz. At TPA I was IFR with no horizon. Top of the haze was 15,000. I logged some actual instrument.

The same idea applies. Better to have 10 in one tank that 5 in each.