Sport Pilot Talk

How about taking off with the Pitot cover still on? Is three times in 4,200 take-offs over the "norm?"

Should I think about hanging up the keys?

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DAVE C (above) Asked: Has anyone tried the echoUAT? It is very reasonably priced, small and has ADS-B IN and OUT. 02/26/2020 Update. My mechanic installed my EchoUAT/SkyFYX-EXT in my 2007 Sting Sport yesterday. The unit, from Aircraft Spruce was $1399. Install took him 5 hours and some small parts ...

So maybe directly contacting the factory is the key here ( I had no idea there was another distributor in Florida .) Nice thing about TL is that our current MEL is pretty darn extensive and contains just about every piece of major avionics released in the last 5-10 years but it would be nice to hav...

Warmi, I am glad you asked those key questions. Yes, it was painfully slow--about 6 months. As you know, TL and Sportair (their former US distributor) have divorced. I put my request in to TL (through their new US distributor in FL) about 6 months ago for this unit to be added to the MEL. As of 1 we...

DAVE C (above) Asked: Has anyone tried the echoUAT? It is very reasonably priced, small and has ADS-B IN and OUT. Not yet, but I just received approval from TL Aircraft to install it in my 2007 Sting Sport--which will happen as soon as my Mechanic's workload allows :lol: And we get finished with my...

Got it just fine! Thanks!

( if you want, I can send you the entire logbook entry for this covering exactly what was done, what wire and parts were used etc ) That would be excellent! No sense in me trying to re-write the book! You should still have my direct email. If not, click the "About" button on Sting Flight ...

Warmi, a couple of questions for you (with regards to the GLD-82): 1. My 2007 Sting has two short wire transponder antennas off the belly--one just aft of the nose wheel strut and another just aft of the wing spars. Is the one up near the strut the transponder OUT that needs to be changed? And the a...

Note that at Class C airports, we'll still be able to fly under the outside shelf, just as now: https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/r ... ements.jpg

Over-the-Top, Under-the-Bottom, or Around--and create my own "Flight Following"--for almost 1,400 days of flying.

But this 10,000-ft business and the 30-mile veil--could impact me and drag me to minimal compliance.

Good to know. I've flown my Sting 2,610 hours now--in 9 years, since taking the game up--and never talked to a controller yet, not one. (Could this be a record?) So...I'm really struggling to justify just how or why I'd need it. Nevertheless, I'm working on a very innovative possible ADSB-Out (minim...

Fellow Sting Sport owners: Here's what you may need to know about your brakes: http://tinyw.in/469M

A satellite phone would be a very good idea! (Actually, for all the "burners" every year to send their stories and pics to friends, there is a cell tower on the edge of the playa, about 10 miles north of Gerlach. So all one really needs to do is get some altitude (like climbing a nearby hi...

Rich, what would you do if your airplane would not fire up after shut-down in the middle of no where? The probability of that occurring is tiny, so I don't worry about it (that doesn't mean I don't mitigate for the possibility, though). I would just accept getting stuck out there as another challen...