Windy it sounds like you haven't made the grade for inner circle of the PFA.
You have to make sure your checked shirt and cords clash.
Walk about the hangar with a bucket of oil after your latest change asking opinions on it's quality and if it could do another 10 hours.
When someone offers you some oil to look at. Take on a wine tasters look. Get your fingers in it, sniff it, taste it and drip it with light behind it.
And grow more facial hair.
Then you may be invited to a test season where you will have to be able to grade and age oil samples by feel, taste and smell. Then be able to remove and refit a factory hydralic press fit bush using only an old socket, a vice and the original fitting.
BTW this is all just tongue in cheek and I am just jealouse because thier knowledge and experence is learned the hard way and they deserve the title of Aviator. There is something very special about building your own plane, maintaining it and flying it.
IO540 I think you are a perfect candidate to become a SEP/MEP class rating instructor. Heaps of knowledge to give. A very broad experence base to draw on. And I think you would enjoy it as well. And I think that you might not improve as a pilot but you certainly would be a different pilot afterwards
Please don't take this as a flame I have alot of time for your opinions on the whole subject of teaching flying and the current system (and GPS
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MJ
edited to remove smilie which wasn't what i wanted