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From Appendix D Part 43 for a 100 hour inspection (or annual). Propellor or aircraft manufacturer may have additional IFCA. Or an AD...

Have done SMO to Bay Area (usually PAO) about 50 times. Don’t know if you had any specific questions. IFR is IFR - hand holding all the...

While flying last week a pilot asked for an ASR. Controller informed them no one trained on the procedure at that time. So unable even...

If it wasn't locking properly, the AD was not complied with. What appears in the logs is not what is necessarily true in the airplane. I...

Going back to OP, a decent set of eyes could see that it was corrosion. Based on the amount seen in the pics, the dimensional analysis...

The mechanism and scaling factors are known and discussed in the literature. The "stagnant pool" is something that a few academics I...

Agree. Not enough suspect get removed regularly is the issue. Canada seems to have nipped the issue in the bud by making sure it comes...

Loosely it's a form of electrochemical crevice corrosion that sets in when fluid is trapped in a feature (think groove or thread) and...

And another 3 here. It does happen, is expensive, and sometimes it's worth fixing. Many , but maybe not 50% to qualify as "most"...

J&J Airparts is a good source as well. No idea if they have any. Superior makes a PMA’d cylinder as noted above.

Long ago lost count of the times a new (or even current) controller has cleared direct to the waypoint already going direct to. It’s...

Navigators have a OBS mode which acts like (in the sense that the unit is using the lat/long not RF) a VOR. Here you would put the LAX...

That’s not complex either.

Yes, as noted, this prop needs to go to a prop shop that has the manuals, knows the limits, and has access to the manufacturer if there...

Appears to be a form of stagnant pool corrosion.