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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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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 MaintenanceMX availability update Update (April 2026): MX is no longer publicly available. I continue to use it privately and actively expand its capabilities, and it may become public again in the future. If you’re interested, the project is available on GitHub—feel free to download it and host it yourself. Service…
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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 FlyingMX availability update Update (April 2026): MX is no longer publicly available. I continue to use it privately and actively expand its capabilities, and it may become public again in the future. If you’re interested, the project is available on GitHub—feel free to download it and host it yourself. Slingology…
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