My first blog

Being one of the more "senior" type pilots, and not having the computer skills of an eleven year old, I find this a new adventure. I want to dedicate this blog to sharing flying adventures, flight safety ideas, and that sort of thing. Pictures, videos and "war stories" are all welcome.
Please add your thoughts and inputs. We are all at some point of the "learning curve" in this, and we all need to learn from each other, especially me.
The following topics are "fair game": Aviation, flying stories, destinations of noteworthiness, airport coffee shops, hunting, fishing, survival tips, fly-inns, your favorite airplane, aircraft maintenance tips, FAA issues, aircraft for sale, aviation websites, things that work and things that don't.
I will be starting this off with a short report of a maintenance issue regarding a Piper Lance,
PA32R-300. This one is about a "sneaky" hydraulic leak in a really odd location. It seems the pilots kept having to use the alternate extension a lot, but the gear always seemed to retract OK. After adding fluid too many times, but finding no evidence of leakage anywhere, it was starting to get to me. The belly, and the bay in which the "power pack" sits were clean and dry. Then one of the owners noticed that carpet was wet, just under the seat. It looked loke spilled coffee, but one sniff said 5606.
There are two lines that run along the left inside wall, and sure enough, each had a pinhole leak, caused by corrosion under a "coroseal" wrapping that was done at the factory. All the fluid was being soaked up by the insulsation behind the sidewall upholstery (what a mess! I had to clean it up and replace a lot of soundproofing), thus, untill the insulation became to saturated it could hold o more, there was no evidence if leakage! All you PA32R owners out there might want to have your A&P look this area over next annual. As I said, the corrosion was UNDER the coroseal wrapping, right next to where the lines pass through the cabin frame under the pilot's side window.