Anyone got one of these units? http://www.garmin.com/products/gnc250xl/ It seems to combine two very useful things (a VFR moving map GPS and a Com radio) into one compact unit. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993

I thought I had this compressor power thing down to a pretty good science until they started screwing around with "rated watts" and "peak power" and all that crap that makes their compressor look really good until you go to use it. Back when we were using "real" horsepower I used a figure of...

Yesterday we planned on a proposed flight 50 miles away for dinner with a light GA airplane newbie on board . The radar at home showed a very narrow band of showers to the Northwest on a SW - NE line marching SE towards us. The rain was limited to the lightest 2 green shades with an occasional...

I need a trickle of electrical power about a dozen times a year in my hangar. I need it for my 125 watt preheater if I'm taking an early-morning flight in the winter, and will use it for a .25A trickle charger if I've let the aircraft sit for more than a week or two. The problem is that my...

We have a Cherokee 140 and have flown to OSH twice. So this year we decided we would try instead to fly from California to North Carolina (FFA)! But scheduling problems cut two days out of our schedule, making the east coast a bit too much of a stretch. So we're planning on leaving Friday from...

You may have seen some of my threads over the past 6-8 months, about an unpredictable flakey radio problem I was having. It seemed to have been resolved by replacing a relay in the audio panel. I have flown the plane for a few months now, with no issues, until recently. I have encountered the...

Check this clip out. What does everyone think happened here? http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC2XJYgcJU It looks like a 182, so it had *some* muscle. I think it must have been hot, maybe a high elevation, loaded with fuel, people and equipment. But one passenger was a small boy so he couldn't...

Of course, we have a new squawk shortly after coming out of the shop. Perhaps someone here can point me in the right direction? Here's the scenario with our 1974 Piper Cherokee Pathfinder, with a 530 hour, normally aspirated Lycoming O-540-B4B5 engine: 1) Flying to Janesville, WI today. ...

We finally did it.... we had to weigh the airplane. After three years of owning it, upgrading radios, adding whatzits (Tannis heater, vacuum filter, new strobe, etc), we finally had a custom interior made up for it. Since the last weighing was without an interior and the weight/moment would be...

A lot of us can not afford the $100K+ aircraft. Even Taylor is a bit too expensive at $54K. When can we expect to see something in the $15 to 25K range? I will note that I am seeing a lot of used aircraft in that range. I gather that the market is a bit depressed still.

I saw the thread earlier about the Tiger as I was about to type this, but it didn't answer any of my questions, so here goes. I keep seeing the Tiger for sale between $65k and $110k. I always thought these planes were highly desirable. This seems a little cheap compared to other planes the same...

The folks here who are running autogas.. I have a question for you. Preface: When I was tasked by my volunteer fire department 10 years ago to stamp out fuel credit card abuse and fraud, I secured the services of a certain brand's fleet card system. The sales vendor who set up our account told me...

Here I am 90min before I have to leave to take the ATP written and I discover that some of the answers in the software that I have been using to study for the test are wrong! Mike MU-2

Gadabout Gaddis Airport, Bingham Maine, just off the Kennebec River http://www.airstripamerica.com/cgi-bin/apt_info?ME08 I used to have a photo of it.. but not having much luck finding it. BT "Gene Kearns" wrote in...

Does anybody have an idea on how to make a tiny little vacuum pump on the order of an aquarium pump or so that will draw just a few inches of water? Preferably 110, but I can rig up a 12 volt supply if necessary. The reason I say this is that I'm getting ready to pack a fairly large number...

My engine operating manual (for my Piper Turbo Arrow III) strongly discourages pulling the power back and doing a quick descent -- it warns of engine-killing shock cooling. Sounds reasonable to me...but it (and my airplane manual) does not really seem to say how best to do a fast descent when you...

Hello, How safe is Eclipse Aviaion's decision to expose the wheel on jet that cruises at 41,000 feet? Has this been done before? On what airplane?

A couple of months ago our AI, which had been "coming and going", finally went. We replaced it with a rebuilt unit from "The Gyro House", which had the dual effect of getting our autopilot working properly again. Last month, our DG failed completely and suddenly, after a normal landing in Pella,...

Finally got to take a fairly long trip in my 175B this weekend. went from HGR (Hagerstown, Md) to TTA (Sanford, Nc) Sure was better than driving, uaually takes around 6-1/2 hours to drive (no accidents holding us up), three pee stops (kids), 2 stop at McDonalds etc... Instead is was 2 hours, 24...

My '66 Cherokee 180C currently has a T12C ADF. Even though it has analog tuning, the previous owner installed a Davitron digital frequency read out so it's not as bad to tune as you'd think. Anyway, it now longer points to the NDB (actually the needle never moves) but can successfully tune am...