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Call Toll Free 1-877-4-SPRUCE August 2021 | Piper Flyer • 3 August 2021 What’s inside / VOLUME 18 / ISSUE 8 CONTENTS The View from Here 8 by Jennifer Dellenbusch Letters 8 Events 10 The High and the Writey 12 by Kevin Garrison Questions & Answers 14 by Steve Ells The Speed of Flight 18 by Tom Machum Comanche Landing Gear, Part 2 20 by Kristin Winter ATC: Unraveling the Mystery, 20 28 Part 3 by Robert Marks So, You Want to Be a Bush 34 Pilot? Here’s What You Need to Know 34 42 by Steve Ells Transponder and Altimeter/ 42 Static System Certification by Steve Ells Destination: 48 Minter Field by Steve Ells Press Releases 54 Aircraft Safety Alerts 58 Advertiser Index 64 Back When: Vintage Piper 66 Advertising and Marketing Cover: 1957 Piper PA-18 Super Cub on the beach at Hinchinbrook Island, Alaska- 2011 Valdez Fly-in, Alaska Daniel H. Bailey / Alamy Stock 48 Photo 4 • Piper Flyer August 2021 20% OFF OR B.O.G.O. 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We invite comments and welcome any report of inferior products obtained through our advertising, so All our aircraft listings are also included on corrective action may be taken. 6 • Piper Flyer August 2021 August 2021 | Piper Flyer • 7 The View from Here Letters to the Editor Jennifer Dellenbusch Send your letters to [email protected] Service Bulletin Number Correction “Piper Issues SB 1346 to Inspect for Correct Washers Installed on Wing Bolt Stack-Up” By Steve Ells Hi Kent – Article in this month’s 17 Years and counting mag [July 2021] has Steve’s address as EllsAviation.com. That does not work. The real question I have is the This issue, August 2021, marks our 17th anniversary. When we sent out our first opening of the Piper SB 1346 articles issue in August 2004, we weren’t sure where it would take us, and here we are 205 says it applies to PA-32s, but then the issues later. We’ve produced somewhere in the neighborhood of 18,000 pages of “Applicability” section does not list PA- content in those years, and I’ve read or—in the case of photos and ads—looked at, 32s, 34s, or 46s. every one. We’ve also produced social media content, seminars, newsletters, web I am hoping Steve goes further in content, and webinars. next month’s article listing how to It’s almost hard to imagine life in 2004, without the ubiquitousness of our smart- phones, without texting, without social media. Facebook launched in 2004, but wasn’t access these fittings for inspection. the force it is now. Twitter launched in 2006 and many other social media platforms I will also go to Piper and see if I have followed. can download the SB. In 2004 there were approximately 913 million internet users worldwide. Today it’s As always, thanks much for your estimated there are 4.66 billion users. help. We were fortunate to be able to take advantage of technology from the begin- Doug Allen ning, by using digital files for magazine creation, but files were shared with our staff and printer via CDs. Now we share files easily in the cloud and can hold live (on the Follow-up from Doug Allen: screen) meetings with staff and members anywhere in the world. I searched Piper’s online database While the methods of creation and delivery have changed over the years, our mis- by aircraft model number. and came sion remains the same; to support Piper owners. up with SB 1366: “MAIN WING SPAR The 17th anniversary isn’t typically regarded as one of the milestone years, but HARDWARE INSPECTION.” It has a after surviving 2020, I think 17 years is a reason to celebrate. longer list of applicable models than what was in the article, which includes Blue skies, the PA-32-301T.