Thanks Royson.
I've noticed that quite a few posts tend to make me feel bad about my management of my airplane. (What! You don't use MMO, or STP, shame on you. What! You don't fly it at least once a week, you're going to ruin the cylinders. What! You don't use auto gas, you're heading for problems! What! You go 50 hours between oil changes!
Throughout my training it was drummed into my head to fill the fuel tanks before putting the plane away to avoid condensation. So, despite being dead tired after a day of flying, I'd climb the ladder, and manhandle the hose to fill the tanks. Now I know that condensation is not a problem in our little tanks.
No one says it now, but in some of the older books I read, the experienced pilots cautioned against landing on anything but grass fields. Otherwise that hard concrete will damage the landing gear.
Exactly how much money is saved in preserving the engine should be balanced against convenience, cost of the measures to baby the engine, and the cost of overcoming whatever "damage" may be done.
I fly the plane, but I don't let it become a millstone causing me to enjoy it less by all the things I "should" do.
