TaildraggerPilot

Installing the pilot’s side clamp takes 99% of the total time required to do the complete front shoulder harness installation.

Pics, and lots of them, or this never happened. ;-)

Exactly, and kudos for being more civil describing the fool than I would.

And what percent of your cherry picked, google searched accidents are part of the total accidents investigated and closed? Way to go searching out the outliers that help your tin foil hat anti-government platform. Don’t you have a bomb shelter to go back to?

You may not believe this, but the NTSB has a duty, bound by federal statute, to investigate GA crashes to their conclusion, using all their training and experience regardless of the obvious limitations (no CVR, FDR). Gryder is known to be an idiot in the real circles of flight safety Keep your partisan political bullshit to yourself.

Yes, that’s right. Mine are from a bladder. Sorry about that. I just saw those corroded flanges and jumped the gun. I would consider that an unairworthy aircraft in its current state.

How many accident scenes have you been at? Have you been on any Part 121 “Go Teams”? Have you actually talked to the NTSB regarding / during an open accident investigation? These ADSB data farmers have little to no actual factual knowledge that isn’t available to the average armchair “investigator”. Nothing coming out of a real, official investigation is a “best guess”.

Who are these DTSB clowns?

I’ve got a set of the flanges and caps in serviceable condition from my 67E, and an extra cap as well:

I have some clover compound. IYKYK

I just want to get them out, asses the condition of the nut plates (in this case) and then replace them without the impact wrench-style torque used previously. Some of them are stripped (not by me).

As someone who learned to fly with round dials, foggles and cranked out a LOC BC with NDB radials as step-down fixes/map for my commercial multi rating, I say ditch the “wild mix” and old, obsolete radios (standalone DME, etc). I did something similar like what you are suggesting to my old Comanche and I still regret it to this day, over 15 years after selling it. If you are truly starting from scratch with a completely new / cut panel, forget round holes, for anything.

The Aspen units don’t hold a candle to the Garmin G3X. Couple that with a G5 (sorry 275 fanboys) and a GFC-500 and you’re done (Except for actual radios / navigators / audio panels / transponders)

Why the deal with the small, maybe #6 countersunk screws on the belly just behind the nose gear well. I’m going to have to drill them out. They are really in there. Does anyone know what behind them?

Dimmable LED’s that fit the torpedo lights (even better than what I have) https://www.aero-lites.com/product-page/ge-89-led-replacement-12vdc-dimmable Select the 12V version to be able to use your existing aircraft dimmer.