Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

Most of these checks can even be done as the airplane is sitting at the gate because they are minimally invasive, require less tools, and take fewer maintenance personnel. Depending on the maintenance specifications required by the FAA for that airplane, these checks commonly happen after 24-60 hours of flight time.

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Annual Inspection VOR Instrument Flight Rules Altimeter 64

Inspire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The lesson learned is a simple one: Keep flying the airplane until it and the prop comes to a stop. Then and only then does one adjust the carb heat, trim, radio, or transponder settings. first appeared on Hangar Flying. The post Until the Prop Stops — Keep Your Head in the Game!

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Transponder Airplanes Hangar 40

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

He noted that most airports income has held pretty steady over the years, with income from streams such as hangars and fuel flowage having stayed relatively flat. So, all of a sudden, just flying your airplane away after ignoring that bill puts you in violation of the law. 775.082 or s. It includes cameras.

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Pilot Transponder NOTAMs Threshold 55

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Some bucks spent on a hangar, updated paint and exterior, and a little TLC under the cowling, and your 30-year-old Cessna 172 will keep up with a brand-new one, for a lot less dollars. Based on our needs, we added an IFR GPS, an ADS-B In and Out transponder, and most recently a simple yet full-featured autopilot to our trusty Cessna Cardinal.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 100

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Warrior has introduced countless people to the joys of light airplanes. It has a mid-time engine (O-320-D3G rated at 160 hp), fairly recent annual inspection and 24 month pitot-ptatic/transponder test. A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance.

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4, also known as a Cub Coupe, had been dropped off in Kennett for annual in 2008 by its then-owner and ended up becoming a permanent resident when Hurricane Ike stretched inland all the way to the Missouri Bootheel, lifting it from the ground and depositing it on top of the FBO’s maintenance hangar.

Runway 98

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Flying within the SFRA, whether it is within the FRZ or not, requires all aircraft to broadcast an assigned transponder code. When landing in the SFRA/FRZ, that code must be maintained until the airplane is on the ground. change the transponder to 1200) after terminating flight following or cancelling IFR.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” Added to the mix are a variety of aftermarket GPS, ADS-B-compliant transponders, flat-screen navigators, iPads, and new or legacy autopilots. So, what is a thinking pilot of an older, upgraded airplane to do?

Cockpit 101

Cockpit Pilot Transponder Ceiling 101

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With a collection seeded by purchase of six WWI era aircraft from the former Roosevelt Field where Charles Lindbergh launched on his historic flight to Paris, ORA is a tribute to founder Cole Palen's (1925-1993) fervent belief that an airplane is only an airplane if it still flies. Over time, he built an extensive flying menagerie.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplanes success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Plus, you know, the airplanes were pretty OK. Literally overnight we got eight semitruck loads of equipment outtooling, molds, and even airplanes. General aviation is driven by myriad forces.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98