r/GeneralAviation

I got my A&P 4 months ago. This buddy of mine that has a Cessna 172 keeps asking me to do maintenance on his plane and is even offering to pay me. Now, I don’t want to sound silly but part of me feels scared and hesitant. There has to be a catch, right? So I can just walk right down to the ole airport where his plane’s tied down, pull out my fancy snap on screwdriver and replace his strobe light as long as I follow the AMM, use FAA approved parts and correct part number and properly sign off with “in accordance references” on his log book? Im having trouble finding a job too but luckily I’m making decent money right now. Maybe this would look good on a resume? He’s asked me to do little things; oil change, replace landing light, some safety wiring. Is there anyone I need to talk to at the airport, if I decide to help him? Anyone I need to ask permission or check in with at the airport? Has anyone been in a similar situation or has advice for me?

Idk if anyone else has experienced this issue, but when I first started flying I bought myself a David Clark H10-13.4 headset (just the standard aviation headset) and for some reason the mic stopped working in like 2 months. I returned the broken headset, got a new one, and the same thing happened in like a month. I switched to a kore aviation headset and have had no problems since.

It’s been a while since this happened, but I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this or know why it happened? It was a nice headset and the kore aviation one is definitely worse, but I don’t want to go back to dc cause I’m worried they’ll break again. I can’t think of any reason why, they never got wet or dropped or anything. I used to store them by wrapping the cable kinda tight around the headset, but I’ve done the same thing with my kore headset and have experienced no issues. Any thoughts?

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