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Before slipping through clouds, lowering the landing gear, splitting the engine case, or stating unable, has it occurred to anyone to just ask ATC? “Having some difficulty slowing down enough to expedite descent while coming up on some rough air, any chance of a delay vector for now?”

What situation? A manufacturer limitation or just reluctant to throttle back because of something you read somewhere a long time ago?

So, you think that flying through clouds or rain is fine but that reducing power will harm the engine? Pretty sure the formation flying throttle jockeys have long proven that nothing's gonna happen from rapid throttle changes.

The probable probable cause is out for this one and some opinions/suggestions: https://data.thedtsb.org/accident/beechcraft-95-b55-n4321z/

Clearly not! The tail is on the wrong way!

And again sadly https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/512349

Having this discussion in advance, making your choice, and ground flying how you would handle it might help avoid the "reflex" and go with the most recent/most trained decision. Not for certain, but a much better chance than making the choice in a split moment on the spot when it happens.

That’s awfully nice of you trying to save the insurance money but how do you know the front of the plane doesn’t look like this?

If you've been going a few years and you've been happy with the work, you may be better off just sucking it up. It's a lot worse when you have someone do terrible work and terribly overcharge you on everything. There are loads of shops that will do a bad job, not fix what they mess up, and overcharge you too. There are plenty of shops that would charge every hour of work and then some. I've had shops round up every minute of work to like a quarter hour minimum. They end up doing 10x under 5 minute tasks that don't even add up to an hour but then bill you 2.5 hours by rounding it all up to the quarter hour minimum. There's no shop that won't mess something up doing maintenance. The difference is how they handle it, how they bill it, and how frequently they mess up. Definitely avoid the shops that are messing things up all the time and don't make things right. Sounds like you actually got a pretty good deal financially and a discount. Not an expensive annual to begin with. Going to a new shop is a risk (may be better, may be worse) and you're guaranteed to get hit with a huge bill the first year when they insist on doing everything different than the last one. You're in for a real treat if you walk away and look for another shop. Could get lucky but odds are you'll get screwed by a couple other shops before you find a decent one or end up going back and realizing you had it pretty good.

Save the world or save your girlfriend? If you found yourself in the position where you forgot to extend the gear and touched the prop to the ground, and you had enough mental capacity to realize what happened and resist acting on reflex, would you take the crash or go around to land on the wheels? It’s obviously a split second decision so you don’t get to weigh all the variables but what’s your default choice under the circumstance.

Not sure if this has been discussed but it just made the Aviation 3 minutes of fame:

Is the steel cage really there as a crash survival feature??? As opposed to a vestigial relic of times past when fabric was used?

LoPresti Fury would do that speed but only on 200hp

Substantial cost savings on insurance should be a pilot’s top priority! That means someone besides yourself thinks you’re less likely to end up in an aviation accident!