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How Cold Is Your Jet-A1 ? Some like it hot…

December 12, 2007 - Modern Aviation No Comments →

It’s winter time in Switzerland, as in half of world, and we go through the first very cold days of the season, with temperature below freezing 24 hours a day. This has many consequences for pilots, like frozen fingers when towing planes, an absolute necessity for light aircraft flying IFR to stay out of clouds […]

Plastic Engine Cessna 172

May 11, 2007 - Modern Aviation 4 Comments →

You’re getting bored of DA40 planes ? Lucky you, I will now post about a C172 in which a plastic engine has been retrofied. Unfortunately for my own experience, it has classical instruments, and is VFR only. I think you need to know that I converted to C172 by the very end of last year, […]