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Continue reading →: Cockpit Refreshers: How Flight Plans Sync Between the G3X, GTN, and iPadShort, practical explainers for avionics features and cockpit tools pilots may not use every day. You enter a flight plan on the GTN 650, glance at your G3X moving map, and — nothing. Or you modify a waypoint on the G3X and wonder why the GTN is still flying the…
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Continue reading →: Building a Compact 48-Hour Emergency Kit for GA FlyingEvery pilot likes to imagine that emergencies are rare and unlikely. In reality, aviation history tells a different story: mechanical issues, weather surprises, and simple bad luck occasionally force pilots to land somewhere other than a runway. The good news is that most off-airport landings in general aviation are survivable.…
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Continue reading →: Cockpit Refreshers: The TOGA ButtonShort, practical explainers for avionics features and cockpit tools pilots may not use every day. During a recent IFR currency flight, I planned to fly a full approach including the missed approach procedure. As I was setting up in a Cessna 172 equipped with a Garmin GTN 650Xi and GFC…
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Continue reading →: Builder Log: Painting and FinalizingThere are phases in a build where progress feels incremental — another bracket installed, another wire terminated, another subsystem checked off. And then there are phases where everything accelerates visually. This visit was that kind of week. I arrived in Torrance on 2/15/26 just after the painting process had completed.…
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Continue reading →: An Open Love Letter to EAAWith Valentine’s Day around the corner, it feels appropriate to write a different kind of post. Recent events at AOPA have sparked a great deal of discussion in the general aviation community — about leadership, transparency, and connection to members. Watching that unfold made something very clear to me: alignment…
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Continue reading →: Crowdsourcing Service Bulletins: How SlingologyMX Enables Community-Driven Experimental MaintenanceService Bulletins are one of those unavoidable facts of aircraft ownership. They are rarely exciting, occasionally urgent, and almost always time-consuming. Someone has to find them, read them, interpret them, and decide whether they matter for this airplane, configured this way, flying these missions. With Release 26.03, SlingologyMX introduces a…
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Continue reading →: Weight & Balance: Configuring Garmin Pilot for the Sling TSi and Exploring Aft CG LimitsThis post walks through how I set up Weight & Balance for a Sling TSi in Garmin Pilot, and how I use that setup to explore realistic scenarios where aft CG can become a consideration, particularly in a parachute-equipped aircraft. A few important notes up front. First, Garmin Pilot requires…
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Continue reading →: Beyond Logbooks: How Slingology MX Now Tracks the True Cost of FlyingSlingology MX started with a very specific problem: keeping aircraft maintenance, compliance, and records coherent. Not just stored somewhere, but structured in a way that reflects how owners actually think about their airplanes—maintenance tasks, directives, counters, equipment, notifications, and the slow, relentless march of time and hours. That foundation hasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Skew-T Diagrams for Winter IFR Flying: A Practical Preflight GuideWinter IFR in the Pacific Northwest has a special talent for looking mostly fine right up until it isn’t. This is a part of the country where IMC is not an exception—it’s the baseline. Low ceilings linger for days. Moist air stacks up against terrain. Freezing levels hover just high…
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Continue reading →: How to Determine Service Bulletin Applicability for Your Aircraft Using AIAs a new aircraft owner, one of the first sobering realizations is that Service Bulletins are not optional reading—they are part of the ownership contract you didn’t explicitly sign. Before the airplane is considered complete and ready to fly, every applicable SB for installed equipment needs to be accounted for.…
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