Mister_Bevilaqua

Of the two options shown, I'd pick #1 without a doubt.

I regularly fly out of a larger private airport where there are three flight schools, two flying clubs, a helicopter school, a pilot shop, along with multiple A&P's and a prop shop. This is a non-towered airport, and things regularly get a bit wild in the pattern. To make matters worse, they are under a 2000ft Bravo shelf with the Bravo to the floor just 1.5 miles north of the field and a Delta just three miles to the east. This field is busy all day, and the facilities are in poor shape IMHO. Hangars here are full, waitlisted, and bringing anywhere from $450/month on up. The hangar culture abounds, and you can find people busy working on planes or just hanging out any day of the week. The airport near my home is in fantastic shape; it's a city/county airport and has built a new row of t-hangars within the past few years, with more planned on top of the five rows that already existed. They recently upgraded to all LED's and retopped the runway and taxiways, and have a very nice little FBO. There's zero hangar culture, most tenants rarely fly their planes or even show up regularly, and you're lucky if you catch someone in the pattern every few hours on a bluebird day. Hangars are readily available and at half the cost of the aforementioned airport. It's a nice sleepy little airport, and it always likely will be. It all depends on your location and the culture of that particular airport. If you visited a lot of the smaller airports here in Texas, you'd be hard pressed not to assume that GA is dying hard and fast. I think there's a positive future for GA, but I foresee a lot of it being centered around experimental aircraft as the aging certified fleets quickly wither away and those remaining continue to get more expensive and much harder to keep in the air.

This is true, but I imagine that will be fixed in a future update.

I'll purchase one. I just have to find a DVD player to watch it on now lol. ***Funds sent!!!***

What do you mount to the ball on the side of your headset?

I have been using FF and I am happy with it overall, but I was recently gifted a free year of GP. I plan to start playing with it here in the coming months to compare the two. I am not sure if I'll run both moving forward, but I am hoping to find one as the clear winner in my book by the end of the year. I've heard a lot of great things about GP in the recent months, so it gives me hope that it might replace FF as my new EFB.

What does Lasar sell that's actually in stock or still available? 80% of their items are OOS or show as no longer available. I'm not sure why you'd bother to list products that you no longer sell.

What is their asking price per unit if you order 10?

Good stuff! I stopped by their shop and met them today on my way to Bastrop. They seem like standup people, and I'd be happy to let them do my annuals going forward. It seemed like they were getting covered up with work on other makes at the moment due to other shops closing their doors, retiring, etc. I kind of got a touch nervous about the purchase of a "vintage" Mooney after chatting with him about the parts that are pretty much unobtanium these days.

Has anyone here used JD and Laura at SWTA in Smithville for annuals or service? Their proximity to me would be ideal to make them my go-to for annuals, service, parts, etc., in the future. I just want to hear some feedback on their shop and expertise, specifically, before I consider using them.

The prices skyrocket the closer you get to any major metro—best of luck in your search.

Similar paint to the Mooney at the LSFM at Ellington, N20XR.

I was gifted a free year of GP, but I have yet to download it. I hoped to get through my Instrument ticket before I opened a new can of worms to play with, so fingers crossed I'll get to it later this fall. I have high hopes for it as a possible lateral move should FF go to crap or hike their prices in the coming year(s).

I came here to ask the same question. Great ideas suggested, thanks!

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