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A buyer could care less how much youve invested in your airplane. Heres how to arrive at accurate buying or selling price.

With adequate albeit modest performance and payload, the venerable Skyhawk soldiers into the new century.

Ever notice how some shops never met a prop that didnt need new blades? Heres how to avoid getting stung.

Cheap to buy and nice to fly, too. But don’t plan on getting there very fast and avoid short runways.

Pulse Oximeters
I am a long-time subscriber to Aviation Consumer and have been a pilot for more than 26 years.  Your two recent articles on pulse oximeters were excellent. 

However, there’s a critical misunderstanding about pulse oximeters which needs to be explained.  As a practicing anesthesiologist, I use oximeters every day.  The oximeter indirectly measures the oxygen available to the tissues by calculating the percentage of hemoglobin molecules saturated with oxygen. 

However, the relationship between the oxygen available to the tissues and the oxygen saturation percentage recorded by the pulse oximeter is not a linear relationship. 

Pilots should not be fooled…

Safety Priorities
By and large, I agree with your order of setting priorities, as noted in the August issue. I have a fewexceptions.

The first is de-icing gear. Most of my flying is in the Northeast and evenly distributed throughout the calendar year. As an instrument-rated pilot, I fly in IMC often. At least six months of the year, there are airmets calling for icing in clouds.

If one wants to have a reasonable dispatch rate and adhere to the letter of FAR Part 91 regs, deicing gear takes on much higher priority especially when flying over the mountainous areas of New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, where MEAs can be 7000 to 8000 feet. Even with it, I will not launc…

Fast, yes. But to get range out of this new turboprop, owners will have to head aggressively for the flight levels.

Although we lean toward models without VOR, Yaesus VXA-120 and the Icom IC A-23 lead the pack.

[IMGCAP(1)]The term working airplane has an unmistakable connotation. Theyre the workhorses of the GA fleet, doing yeomans service in hauling freight, towing gliders and banners and spraying crops.

Most manufacturers have a working airplane or two in their model line-ups but Cessna has been especially successful in the piston single realm with the 180, 185 and 206/207, each of which has carved its own market niche.Among that distinguished group, the Cessna 185 is perhaps unique for its reputation as an airborne pick-up truck easily able to haul heavy loads into and out of short, unimproved strips. And as a taildragger with plenty of power, its also a prized towplane.

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