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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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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 MaintenanceService Bulletins are one of those unavoidable facts of aircraft ownership. They are rarely exciting, occasionally urgent, and almost always time-consuming. Someone has to find them, read them, interpret them, and decide whether they matter for this airplane, configured this way, flying these missions. With Release 26.03, SlingologyMX introduces a…
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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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