On the flip side, I tried ForeFlight a decade ago. I found it very unintuitive and very much organized around planning the flight versus actually doing the flight. Garmin Pilot was crap on planning and great in the flight. Since then, they have largely retained how they work, as they have leap frogg...

Compression and borescope examinations along with many other tools, such as oil analysis, all can help determine engine health regardless of spark or compression ignition. The difference is not in the concept, but in the details of what numbers/details means. e.g. If you get AL in oil analysis for a...

Rich wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:13 pm I'm all for the GAMI formulation. I'll stir up the codgers in my area about this and watch the "whatever it is, I'm against it" crowd.

lol.

I watched a video of GAMI's presentation on this at Sun N Fun. The roll out in California seems to be on the verge of happening. The Governor wants G100UL in all airports by the end of the year. Doubt that is feasible but shows the amount of pressure to get this done. One thing I learned about the ...

For buyers I think the issue is both reasonable time and a predictable time. If you look at the Diamond on Order spreadsheet, the actual delivery times range from 8 to 25 months and the variance from the expected delivery when the purchase contract was signed to the actual delivery also varies wide...

I know of one small MPP order (three planes, I think was the number), it was for multiple aircraft. Part of the acceptance criteria was all three planes to be delivered within two weeks (I think) of the first to last. This was due to the testing requirements for the sensor platform which was to be i...

@cfidave One other fun point. Republicans in Congress actually had to pass a law to amend a law/rule highly favored by President Reagan. One of the items he pushed for was blocking the naming of any structure (even a sign) until the person being named had left office at least twenty five years previ...

Like the closure of KSMO in Santa Monica, this is all about seizing the land. It has nothing to do with race, the environment or anything else. Proof is that the moment it was proposed to keep SMO open, just ban the fuel, they said it was the noise. When they tested and found there was more noise f...

CMI released some updated info. The recommendation has changed, engines which have completed over 200 hours have been excluded from the potential failure group. Someone did some math and stated from a statistics standpoint, that means the highest number of hours on a plane with this failure should b...

The rough estimate posted in COPA which was apparently provided by CMI is expected the max number of planes affected will be 1000; with expectations that only in the high 600s will have to be inspected, and then possibly mitigated.

Tim