More that a year ago I started planning to travel to Texas to view this week's total eclipse. Fast forward to Sunday, when we flew the DA62 down to Fredericksburg, Texas (T82), where pilots had long since snapped up all available ramp reservations for the event. We stayed with friends in Kerrville, ...

I had my hour in Crazy Horse about 25 years ago, and it was just as you portrayed it: a bucket list item that somehow lived up to my expectations. Somewhere in a box I may still have the Betamax tape of the flight...

If I’m reading this right, aircraft whose horizontal stabilizers haven’t been removed since delivery from the factory are good to go w/out re-torquing the bolts. Or was the factory’s build process compromised, too?

So far, it’s not been made clear if the increases would apply to Jet-A powered reciprocating engines, and/or turboprops.

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Man, that’s frustrating.

I’m taking my DA62 to FTW for its annual and 300 hr service on 1/29. My squawk list is short and the 300 hour kits are in hand. I’ll let you know how long the service takes; we do have to wait for the SB oil analyses to return results, which adds a week or so.

I have owned two DA62s, both of which have had pesky problems that local shops can’t deal with. A prop governor failed on the new one (infant mortality); both have had leaky fuel quick drains (I don’t consider that a knock on Diamond, since they are very common parts). The new one had a crossfeed l...

I have owned two DA62s, both of which have had pesky problems that local shops can’t deal with. A prop governor failed on the new one (infant mortality); both have had leaky fuel quick drains (I don’t consider that a knock on Diamond, since they are very common parts). The new one had a crossfeed li...

This seems to happen with some frequency. Guidance on the requirements for foam fire suppression have been updated since data show that inadvertent releases of foam have caused more damage than the proper release of foam has prevented. Plus, chemicals in the foam are known to cause cancer. https://w...

Serial 62.252 with tail number N123AA was delivered on 10/24/2023. Original order date was July 2021. I ordered my 62, C.041, in January 2021. It was delivered in May 2022, an eight month slip to the right. What’s caused the waiting time (and the average ‘slip to the right’ time) to increase so muc...

An interesting thing I have found. If I turn off the Electric Master switch after a flight, The standby instruments will turn off after 30 seconds as designed. However, if I leave my iPad plugged into the USB-C outlet, the standby instrument will not shut down - I must do it manually. When I next t...