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As I promised earlier I am enclosing tips for dealing with the insurance company and other suppliers when involved in an insurance claim.

Having recently gone through a claim with all the bell ...

I concur with Tim; I got the same advice from Shanna at Nation Air/Gallagher. I am qualifying another builder for the open pilot warranty on my aircraft. I named him last year for a small extra premiu ...

I have been adjusting the mixture control cable attempting to make the control hit both the full rich stop and the idle cutoff stop. It appears that the cable (AS custom with Teflon cores) is about .0 ...

All the more reason to have a Curtiss valve in the panel to the static line to provide an opening to cabin air instead of the old solution “ breaking the VSI instrument”.
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In many years of flying I have never encountered a pitot tube failure until now. When I built the aircraft and made first flight in 2008, the Falcon tube worked correctly. After 1100 hours it failed; ...

Final report of this seems to be complete. Check NTSB.
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We are planning on several fly out camping weeks this summer; are there flight groups that camp; we are considering whether to fly into a paved airport a short distance from the camping sites, rent a ...

Because it is winter, there is a good article on Ice and tail stalls in the referenced issue. I don’t fly ice anymore but should you encounter it flying the 10, the article provides some does an ...

Transition training can be accomplished, gratis, by a CFI who owns or has built his 10; I have done several where a simple checkout flight (1-2 hours) is required. The trick is to ask your/his insuran ...

Two things struck a remembrance for me. The control cables from Vans seem to be of lower quality; I believe the cable cores are made of a material with a lower melt point. When your engine is shutdown ...

I bought a case of Plexus back in 2007 for about $60 ($7 per can). The current price is a minimum of $15 per can and can range to $20+. I found 37 Plexall at $7 per larger can and going to test it. ...

Having owned a C177RG for 29 years I recall only one windshield change. Anyone have any idea about the service life of the windshield as provided by Vans for the RV10? Obviously it will be a pain to r ...

A question and an observation.

What pressure are we using in the nose tire?

At 1100 TT on the aircraft, this morning I had my first maintenance issue away from home base. After landing ...

I have used mallet , vise, screwdriver; all take at least 30 mins. I now use the harbor freight bead breaker ($30?) and the tire and bead are separated in less than 5 minutes.

David
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Also in the spare parts are an O ring kit for brakes and prop, extra fuel drain for leaking tank drain and several ready to go master cylinders for the brakes and a small quantity of 5606 and the mean ...

As my friends have joked, I carry a “machine shop” in the baggage area; one item is a small (less than ten pounds) box of spare parts that include a spare tube for each size of wheel, seve ...

My flying buddies joke about my “machine shop in the baggage area”. Of course one has had more emergencies with his aircraft in the last six months than I have had in 52 years as a pilot. ...

My prop governor is an MT P-420-17, serial 044016; I was one of the initial purchasers of the certificated Lycoming IO540D4A5 from Vans. I believe the engine came from Lycoming with the governor alrea ...

I have flown some LIFR over my last 50 years but it is nice to know that thing will probably be good in October. The company from which I retired 20+ years ago is having a reunion there at the Hyatt. ...