Owning an airplane

[Wolfala]

I agree completely.  You hear guys all the time talk about "shock cooling" and how "bad" it is, yet that same guy will take his Belchfire 400 out of the hangar, start it up and taxi right away out and do a runup then shove the throttle in for take off.  IMO there is more thermal damage done on power up than reducing power.  My airplane didn't move from parking until the oil temp was up to 100 degrees F and all power changes (throttle or prop) were done smoothly.

Are you using your airplane for transportation?

I teach a primary when he's not getting married, but travel a lot on the weekends doing TAA transition training along the east coast, Cirrus, Mirage, C400, etc.

[Wolfala]

I wasn't saying I knew everything. When you said dusty I immediatly pictured a desert. I understand now thats not what you meant, apologies.

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Almost forgot to mention, Busch conducts monthly webinrar's that are worth reviewing. I converted all of mine to MP4 which are ipad portable. Here is the URL: http://www.savvymx.com/index.php/resources/webinar

And here are links to the converted MP4s if you wish to grab them on a mobile device.

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[Stoney]

I field overhauled my O-320 under an A&P's supervision and using a current copy of the Lycoming Overhaul Manual.  Saved me a ton of money and gave me the piece of mind it was done properly.  Plus, I touched every single part of that engine during the work, and learned more about horizontally opposed engines than I ever thought was possible.  Highly recommended you do as much maintenance as you can, both for the savings and for the education.

[VonMessa]

I field overhauled my O-320 under an A&P's supervision and using a current copy of the Lycoming Overhaul Manual.  Saved me a ton of money and gave me the piece of mind it was done properly.  Plus, I touched every single part of that engine during the work, and learned more about horizontally opposed engines than I ever thought was possible.  Highly recommended you do as much maintenance as you can, both for the savings and for the education.

Never hurts to be able to fix something, especially if one is going to be doing any bush flying.

[dedalos]

I wasn't saying I knew everything. When you said dusty I immediatly pictured a desert. I understand now thats not what you meant, apologies.

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I think he needs to apologize to you now.  His response was uncalled for and only given due to your age. 

[Shuffler]

Almost forgot to mention, Busch conducts monthly webinrar's that are worth reviewing. I converted all of mine to MP4 which are ipad portable. Here is the URL: http://www.savvymx.com/index.php/resources/webinar

And here are links to the converted MP4s if you wish to grab them on a mobile device.

Invest the time in educating yourself about maintenance and operation. Bulltoejam check often and come back with questions.

http://db.tt/TwZZPMh
http://db.tt/oj9hYq3
http://db.tt/UiFAQUF
http://db.tt/vyqV8J8
http://db.tt/HYSlqHN
http://db.tt/UZNu3mN
http://db.tt/zJ7HtJV
http://db.tt/Top0NEW
http://db.tt/QRayn62
http://db.tt/UZNu3mN
http://db.tt/jZvOraM

Nice post.

[Tupac]

Von, I took the pictures for you today. You will have to excuse the poor quality, I took them with my cell phone. It slipped my mind and I left my real camera at the house. I will upload them a little later, because I am running errands for my parents right now.

[Seadog36]

I field overhauled my O-320 under an A&P's supervision and using a current copy of the Lycoming Overhaul Manual.  Saved me a ton of money and gave me the piece of mind it was done properly.  Plus, I touched every single part of that engine during the work, and learned more about horizontally opposed engines than I ever thought was possible.  Highly recommended you do as much maintenance as you can, both for the savings and for the education.

I just sold my 1962 Cessna 150 for this Globe Swift restoration project~ saving quite a bit working with my A&P~ if you are handy and well supervised you can do most of the work yourself. Ton of work and a bunch of dough but I'm still smiling (guy on the right). If you love to fly, it can be very satisfying your own plane. Oh and thats my wife scraping the firewall~ fun for the whole family. 

[Stoney]

I just sold my 1962 Cessna 150 for this Globe Swift restoration project~ saving quite a bit working with my A&P~ if you are handy and well supervised you can do most of the work yourself. Ton of work and a bunch of dough but I'm still smiling (guy on the right). If you love to fly, it can be very satisfying your own plane. Oh and thats my wife scraping the firewall~ fun for the whole family. 

Swifts are one of my favorite planes.  There was a guy that brought one to Reno every year that was in impeccable shape.  Do you know if the skin is in good enough condition to go polished aluminum?  Either way, great plane...  Keep us posted on the renovation.

[Tupac]

"Fences"


Drooped leading edges


Drooped wingtips

[Tupac]

and for all the nasty looking clouds, not a drop of rain

[The Jekyll]

172's and 182,s are great for jumping out of, take out the passenger seat, remove door, seat 3 jumpers and away you go! We get a lot of use out of em but also the Beech-18 is a lot of fun to jump although the 3000 ft runway always gives us fits!

[icepac]

That swift is sweet!!!

I've been wanted to acquire an old wooden spar mooney and do some supplemental type certificate work concerning spar replacement and running a modern engine management system with turbocharging but it's currently a pipe dream.

[Stoney]

That swift is sweet!!!

I've been wanted to acquire an old wooden spar mooney and do some supplemental type certificate work concerning spar replacement and running a modern engine management system with turbocharging but it's currently a pipe dream.

That's a ton of very expensive and complex work.  Better to find something that either (a) already has it done or (b) look for a Mooney that you wouldn't have to do that to.  My A&P in Cali had an old '64 C model and that plane was in impeccable shape.  Great planes.

[icepac]

I got my A&P in 1983 so costs are significantly lower and currently engineer engine managment systems for most anything that moves.