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About those people who write aircraft POH’s

3 words for the people at the big factories who write aircraft Pilot’s Operating Handbooks (POHs): “GET A MAULE”. Seriously, a 352 page POH (manual) for a Cessna 172? The manual for a Maule M7 is about...

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When the desert blooms

I just took a Cessna 172 from Miami to Santiago de Chile. It was a nice trip, 7 days in all. Bahamas to Jamaica, Colombia to Ecuador, Peru and finally Chile. My last fuel stop was in the Atacama desert...

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I’m pretty sure I own the world speed record in a Cessna 172

Groundspeed, that is. Between the Independence factory and Shreveport Louisiana, during the airplane’s very first flight after delivery, we saw groundspeeds over 180kts. I don’t remember the actual top...

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