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I recently was honored to receive the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award from the FAA. When asked for advice for younger pilots to help them achieve this longevity, I came up with three rules: 1. When in doubt, don't. If the successful outcome of what you are about to do is uncertain, stop and think. 2. Don't do nuthin dumb. The most often heard last words are "Hold my beer and watch this". 3, NEVER ever,ever,ever EVER trust a weather forcast. What you see through the windshield supercedes all previous information. Fly safe, live long. Jim KLick Pitts S1S N9JT

I agree with Douglas. I am inside the Class B airspace around O'Hare, by 1.3 NM, and as a result have a mode C transponder in my Pitts S1S I may be going to LSA due to medical issues, and am looking for a Cessna 120 or 140, because $120,000 and up for an LSA is ludicrous. A friend bought a CubCrafter Cub for more than that, and the other day I stopped by his hangar. A glass panel in a Cub borders on obscene, and when he had to check the tach for his flight time, he had to power up the Master and Avionics Master, and wait while the glass "self tested" before he could see the tach time. Another friend has a nicely equipped IFR Cesna Skylane. Look in the window and you can see what the tach time is. If I fly "over the horizon", I use the Skylane. Every other flight I have no need for the "gee whiz" factor, so why should I pay to haul it around? Jim Klick AOPA ASN KLOT