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Re: Worked as Advertised I thought there was a certification requirement that says the prop must have x ground clearance with the front tire flat and the strut bottomed?

Re: Airline Seats Actually, you CAN make this stuff up. Consider the source. The Onion is pure satire.

Re: Sad News If you look at an aerial photo of this airport, not a lot of options to 'land straight ahead'.

Re: Sad News So it was N1148J, a Commander 112, according to the FAA, and the surviving passenger was a CFI?

Commander 114 crashes. http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=280810 Does anyone know anything further?

Re: A Great Time in Dayton I sure would have been happier in Dayton than miserable in Ann Arbor.

Re: Who can identify this? Exactly. I wouldn't have any idea what it was without that movie.

Re: Who can identify this? Pby?

Re: Allentown PA? Both ABE and XLL are fine, only 1 FBO at each.

Re: Lop With four 6' 10" guys sitting in comfort.

Re: Super Commander owners While maintaining some semblance of forward speed. I don't climb to cruise altitude at Vy, do you? With a NA engine, there is no hurry to get 'up', like with a turbo or turbine.

Re: Super Commander owners 1. Depends on altitude and OAT, but typical in the 'happy' cruise altitudes of 8-12K is 157 KTS LOP, sorry I never operate ROP but I guess it would be 4 KTS faster. 2. Again, depends very much on OAT, but standard day 2000 ft/min initial if you want to raise the...

Re: Potentially a Big Deal (Shell 100 No Lead) Glenn, Shell has been working on this for 10 years. Knowing the big oil way, I'll bet they already have done all of the certification testing and just dumped all of the test data on the FAA, with a request for approval. If so, it won't be that long.

Re: Friends don't let friends fly IFR If you use your plane to travel, the rating is almost mandatory. You still need the flexibility to delay trips due to icing and convection, but this is very infrequent compared to the number of trips that would be delayed due to mere clouds. I file almost...

Re: Potentially a Big Deal (Shell 100 No Lead) TEL is very expensive and so is the segregated storage and distribution required due to the lead. Also consider that unleaded fuel will allow for full synthetic oil, longer oil change intervals and no more corrosive lead salts in the oil and the...

Re: Arrivals Awesome. We are on our way out to ARB today...going to be bumpy. Our other home is on Cavanaugh Lake and our pilot daughter is at MSU (oh well).

Re: 200kts Commander I think a Commander with a diesel engine and full fuel would have about 150 lbs payload...

Re: Time for Breakfast? It was a male controller and I got the impression that he flies the plane.

About time for a NY/NJ area breakfast meetup? I had a nice chat with a NY center controller on the way home last night who has a 112 on LI, who said he is a COG member but doesn't check the forums much. Does anyone know him? From the owners map, I would guess it's Brian McCann?

Re: Great lakes this sunday 11/11 Yes, was at opening night for BB last night and will be at the game today.