Annual Inspection Approach Transponder 
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Individuals can attend training classes to obtain an LSA repairman certificate that, with the right endorsements, allows them to perform maintenance, including annual inspections, on their LSAs. Vso approach speed is 53 knots. We’ve danced around what seems to have made the RV-12 successful. It actually feels slower.
Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 31, 2025
When working on historical aircraft restoration, Mike Porter takes a balanced approach by blending authenticity with user-friendliness. Transponders, ADS-B, radios, ELTs, all of these items are necessary to ensure pilot safety. The annual inspection on a Stearman is usually a couple of thousand dollars.
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iPad Pilot News
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
A pilot’s worst fearwas to look down at an EFB and see the infamous “blue screen of death” on an IFR flight while setting up for an approach. The scenario gets worse as you go to restart the device and see the message “Configuring Windows update 1 of 15…” as you near the final approach fix.
Air Facts
AUGUST 5, 2024
It has a mid-time engine (O-320-D3G rated at 160 hp), fairly recent annual inspection and 24 month pitot-ptatic/transponder test. Your CFI-I back in SoCal always taught you to look at the approach plate for the departure airport as well as the departure procedure/takeoff minimums/ODPs. My response would be, “what if ?”
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Individuals can attend training classes to obtain an LSA repairman certificate that, with the right endorsements, allows them to perform maintenance, including annual inspections, on their LSAs. Vso approach speed is 53 knots. We’ve danced around what seems to have made the RV-12 successful. It actually feels slower.
iPad Pilot News
APRIL 9, 2024
A pilot’s worst fear was to look down at an EFB and see the infamous “blue screen of death” on an IFR flight while setting up for an approach. The scenario gets worse as you go to restart the device and see the message “Configuring Windows update 1 of 15…” as you near the final approach fix.
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