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News flash! Today, March 5 2008, Powerflow is announcing their latest product: the Powerflow System for the Cardinal RG! For their announcement and more information, please check out their announcement page!

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Plans for Fly-ins, Fly-outs and Events: Reports from recent Fly-ins, Fly-outs and Events:
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Got a post-card, Checking us out?: If you are checking us out after getting a post card from us, welcome! The answers to the questions posed on the card are inside our membership area, but we have made these three samples accessible from here. There are over 200 pages like this in the member's section, with more added frequently.

Spar inspection you should do
The most common Alternator problem
The 'Missing Gasket' that has brought down Cardinals.






The Cardinal Flyers are a group of owners, operators and flyers of the Cessna 177 Cardinal. This is our web home, the Cardinal Flyers Online.

Our purpose is to bring Cardinal Flyers together around the world, both virtually and physically, while communicating our member's experiences, wisdom and knowledge in creative and effective ways. We are about technical knowledge exchange, but also about building a community of Cardinal owners.

We do this through a daily digest email, along with this web system. This web system currently contains over 1200 pages and 5000 images and files. This page is your launching point to navigate this system.

The CFO Digest is a nearly daily email containing several questions, answer and comments between and among the CFO membership. It represents hundreds of years of combined experience, ably moderated by Paul Millner. If you want to really know your Cardinal, you need to follow the CFO Digest.

This system consists of two main sections: the Public section and the Members section.

The Public section is for people who are exploring the Cardinal as a possible aircraft for purchase. It discusses the history and facts of the Cardinal and goes into the reputation of the Cardinal as well as the realities of owning one. Start here, but once you decide that the Cardinal is the airplane for you, we recommend that you join CFO and dig in more deeply. Many members tell us they learned enough in one evening on CFO to save them hundreds of dollars while shopping for their Cardinal.

The Member's section is the place where CFO members come together to exchange information and ideas, learn more about their Cardinal in-depth and share the joys and challenges of operating, maintaining and enjoying their Cardinals.

We can't say it enough.. you can learn a great deal about the Cardinal, as well as the Cardinal Flyers, in the public areas. But if you are getting serious about purchasing a Cardinal you need to get the more in-depth details of inspection, maintenance and ownership of a Cardinal. You will need (and want!) to become a CFO Member.

Read more about the benefits of belonging to CFO, then Join us!

The Cardinal Flyers accepts sponsorships. All sponsorship (ie paid) links and buttons are colored green. You can visit the Sponsors page here.


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