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Gross weight, it’s not a weight thing it’s a clean stall thing, I think the early ones would work https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/22/light-sport-rules-expand-dramatically

The way most will get their candle snuffed out from their gut, major cause of death is MIs and strokes, by and LARGE the biggest factor there is being FAT Anyone who is above their target BMI I will laugh at if they talk about “safety” Frankly the Gov goes not keep you safe, rules don’t keep you safe, “safety” is much like the Easter bunny, it’s a made up thing for underdeveloped brains to feel happy about. If YOU want to add a CO YOU can add one, but you have zero say what I do, or anyone else does. Heck look at the majority cause of crashes, it’s PILOT error, ie the person just sucks at flying, guess we could have daddy gov say no one with under 3000tt and who doesn’t log at least 50hrs a month should be able to fly, that would make us “safer” no?

I’m not worried about it remotely just saying if you’re constantly getting 0 I’d at least hold it by the exhaust of your car to check it

Mine are all brand new too, 0 ain’t very real in GA even my friends 100ish TTSN SR22GTS was like 5-10

0PPM is crazy low with a giant inefficient piston engine, non pressurized cabin, with a exhaust system that’s would be illegal on most cars off a race track

I would not trust it if it’s giving you a reading of 0 (zero) in any GA plane that takes its cabin heat from the exhaust shroud, that’s what some would call wishful thinking

My significant other has a DZ and loves it, it also does a bunch of other stuff like record audio etc. Lightspeed also makes a great headset and has good customer support, I’ve been using the Zulus (1-2-3) since they first came out 20ish yrs ago? Her headset never gets above 25 in our planes, normally under 20 even with our 1940s vintage stuff. She did have it trigger a couple times in other folks planes that did have a CO issue. Pretty cool tech

Cross wind?

good call I’d for sure get a analysis on what that stuff is don’t do that, the beacon is what you turn on when you are about to start and running engines, taxi light is on when you are going to taxi and moving Seems fine for the procedure, I don’t fly PA28s or 172s, but have had fuel issues in vintage aircraft, knowing systems and taking one’s time is always best, it’s like skydiving, it’s amazing how time slows down

Basic med and a class 1 Got basic so I could speak intelligently about it to my occasional students Class 1 because the government requires it for me to be allowed to feed my family. If I wasn’t flying for hire I would have gone basic the second it came out, the more experience you get in this industry the more you want to distance yourself from the circus at the FAA, and that’s said as a healthy guy who doesn’t even take Tylenol For me not being able to land in Canada or go above 18k, for my personal flying, is no factor what so ever, hell if it was a high priority just toss some greenhorn CFI in who’s got a class 1/2/etc to act as PIC, these days they’ll do it just for the flight hours and if they are good some Timmys lol

So few things 1 General rule of thumb You turned the switch to a different position and something you didn’t like happened, turn the switch back to the other position 2 before the AP who said the plane was GTG that had the engine fail right after you took off “fixes” more stuff, I’d take a sample of that fuel with the stuff in it and send it off to find out what the “stuff” is. The FBO is going to say it wasn’t them 100% of the time The shop that worked on the tanks is going to say it wasn’t them 100% of the time A lab doesn’t care and will tell you want those particles are and that will more or less tell you who’s speaking the truth 3 landing lights, not sure if you can adjust them, but that’s a good call, even in a new car most of them are out of wack. A decades old plane that’s had lots of work and light changes over the years, probably needs a little adjusting one way or another. If safe turn them off when pointed at other manned planes or line crew, but you are the PIC, if you turn your light off and hit something I promise you the line guy or other pilot ain’t going to offer to take the blame or pay for your prop/engine/legal expenses 4 time You have more than you think when a engine quits, your CFI had to do friggin S turns, even in singles most bad outcomes from a engine failure are pilots rushing or getting a “helmet fire” vs flat out running out of time.

With how unprotected un thought out the ADSB system is, it’s more common than you think could be someone just decided hey didn’t want their wife to see the flight, could be a avionics shop didn’t enter the hex on a new install correctly, etc etc and as stated could be ATC messed up

With the exchange rate look into getting it done in Canada eh

If only I could require my…weight and balance limits

having flown skydiver and trained in both fixed wing and rotor without doors, it mostly in one’s head