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Continue reading →: FAR 91.171 Made Easy: A Free Electronic VOR Check Logger for IFR PilotsSlingologyVOT is a free, offline-first Progressive Web App for IFR pilots to log VOR checks as required by FAR 91.171. Electronically signed, export-ready, and no account required.
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Continue reading →: The Future of ATC: Why the Controller Doesn’t Need to Tell You the Altimeter SettingThe U.S. air traffic control system is understaffed, aging, and straining under the weight of routine, repetitive communications. A technical and economic case for what could — and should — be automated, and what it would take to get there.
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Continue reading →: The Build Is Over. The Flying Has Begun.For the better part of two years, this blog had one job: document the journey from a signed purchase agreement to a flying airplane. That job is done. N117ZS is in her hangar at KAWO, the logbook has its first real entries, and the questions that drove most of what…
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Continue reading →: From Torrance to KAWO: The Ferry FlightSometime in August of 2024, I stood in a hangar in Torrance, California, looking at a pile of aluminum and wondering what I had gotten myself into. Eight months later, I was strapping into that same airplane — now fully built, tested, and signed off — for the longest flight…
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Continue reading →: Sling TSi First Flight — The Good, The Great, and the Open DoorN117ZS — Roci — flew for the first time on March 20th, 2026. Three days at Torrance that covered everything from first flight euphoria to a door-open emergency over Los Angeles. Here’s the full story.
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Continue reading →: One Checklist, Every Garmin Device — Here’s How (Garmin Won’t Tell You)Garmin makes remarkable avionics. They also can’t be bothered to sync checklists between their own products. Here’s how one open-source developer fixed what Garmin wouldn’t.
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Continue reading →: The Builder’s Spectrum: What I Learned Choosing Factory Assist for My Sling TSiThe detailed program guide arrived after I’d signed the contract. I read it at my kitchen table, and somewhere around page five I felt the first flicker of something I couldn’t quite name. Not alarm. Not regret. Something quieter — the gap between what I’d imagined and what I was…
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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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