You have to work pretty hard these days to find a C-152 that's "low time," and that seems to mean around 5,000 hours now... not only that but you have to pay around 50k for one with 5,000 hours in decent shape.
I think there's definitely a market.
To operate a warbird of any kind, with a few exceptions, you need the equivalent of a type rating known as an LOA or Letter of Authorization. These are given by people who have LOOA's or Letters of Operation Authority.
This is because most warbirds do not have type certificates, there are...
I read one a couple years ago where the FAA basically audited a flight school's records and found that a couple of instructors were logging all scheduled flights whether they actually flew or not... one flight was logged as 1.1 when the actual time was .1 because of a mechanical issue, then the...
You make no sense.
I say go rent a 172... Cherokee... whatever... and depending on how long it's been, an instructor as well. Go shoot some landings, see a sunset, whatever. Get back into flying.
Believe it or not I called today and got a briefer within 3 minutes and actually got good information...
Of course there wasn't a cloud in the sky over California today, and I only needed the briefing for the planning portion of my commercial ride, which I passed. (woohoo :))
Every time I've...
It's not specifically approved or prohibited. AC43.13 talks about organic coatings as a way to combat corrosion but doesn't specifically mention powder coat. The Jeppesen airframe textbook mentions it as an excellent high durability coating for things like "engine mounts and landing gear...
Most of ours are powder coated but we have a few that aren't... yet. ;)
The ones that aren't powder coated the paint peels off and they get rust spots on them and we end up having to clean the rust and repaint the sections a lot... but then the paint peels again. It's very rare that the powder...
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