The dreaded annual condition inspection time has arrived... Fat Albert is currently perched upon the wing jacks pending gear swing testing... I have put 500 hours on the fat boy over the past three years and one of the topics this year was the mags.... I had gone to the yellow newspaper and...

I was passenger on a $100 hamburger run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBl3rbiwpTA Note, pilot is fresh on getting her VFR ticket and wanted to get some ground ops experience so she asked me to come along. She also thought it would be cool to capture her comms with ATC so I brought the recorder...

Okay, so I've been "volunteered" to be on the board of directors of the biggest fly-in event in Iowa City's history, the Eastern Iowa Big Kids Toy Show, scheduled for May 20 - 21, 2006. See us at www.BigKidToyShow.com (Yes, they made me wear a -- *sob* -- TIE for the photos... It was awful! ...

Question... I have to do a lot of regional travel for my company and, due to the work we do, most of my work is actually at airports. I've asked my company if I can use my personal aircraft for a lot of this travel and they denied my request due to what the company percieves as their liability in...

I just looked at one of these jewels yesterday and I am impressed. Is anyone using one? How do you like it. I'd really like to hear pro's and cons. I'm presently using a King Skymap IIIC and could probably sell if for what a Lowrance 2000C would cost. Thanks

You're invited to not one, but TWO Oshkosh parties! That's right, TWO Oshkosh blow-outs, organized just for pilots and their guests. Check 'em out: 1. ** 5th Annual Pre-Oshkosh Fly-In Pool Party ** Each year, on the Saturday before OSH, we host a fly-in pool party at our aviation theme-suite...

I won't be getting it for a couple of years and whatever I picked would be an older plane. It will be for (or slightly before) my 50th birthday. I wanted to ask what the group thought about a Cherokee 140 as a first plane? In talking with my fellow CFI's most of them think I would find the...

I spent a day and a half at Sebring looking at aircraft. As I expected, there are only a few that fit what I'm looking for. Of those, only one (the AMD Zodiac XLi) uses a Continental engine. Everyone else (and, indeed, nearly everyone else building an LSA period) uses Rotax 912s. I'm not fond of...

OSH First-Timer (hopefully!) here. Assuming I can get the plane out of annual in time, I plan to make the trip! I'm curious about lodging. I snagged a room at the Super 8 on the field. Outrageous prices, of course, and I also wonder if I'm missing an essential part of the experience by not...

Hi all, I have posted three times, regarding the radio problems, that have seemed impossible to identify root cause...

One of our least favorite jobs (thanks to our "Fancy Pants" with their stupid, under-sized access doors) is airing up the tires on our Pathfinder. I pull the plane back and forth while Mary fishes around for the stupid nipple. If you want to hear a woman cuss like a sailor, just stop by...

I need 30 answers by Friday morning. What is your favorite type of car? (The one you dreamed of as a kid, that is) BMW Lamborghini Farrari Jaguar

I have the opposite problem from the usual "four seats doesn't mean four pax" problem -- I'm looking for an aircraft with typical four-place load (and price) to carry five small passengers and minimal baggage. What aircraft are out there on the used market (including hombuilts!) which can safely,...

This article pretty much describes the differences between the two airplanes and points up the issues that I have with the Cirrus. http://www.airplanenoise.com/articles/Skylane%20vs.%20Cirrus.pdf -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

So I picked up this nifty Davtron digital electric clock/timer at Sun N Fun. It's exactly the same model I had in my Warrior (Model 800), and I found a good price for it. (Roughly 4 times what it's really worth -- a bargain in aviation!) Our wind-up clock had become sporadic in cold weather, and...

Hello community, imagine you consider byuing an older airplane, e.g. a Piper from the Pa-28 Arrow series: is there an age (or a year of birth ;-) you would not exceed? If yes, for what reason (e.g. may be that corrosion-protection was not usual before that year, or that copper was so expensive,...

....in anticipation for Oshkosh? I can't wait much longer, or I'll bust! :-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com

i really need to start this by saying i know absolutely nothing new or bad about any aircraft. i'm sure not trying to start any rumors. in fact, this may be something that y'all have already chewed on but... the outfit i rent from is just down the taxiway from "air aces" at houston-hooks where...

In my 1974 Helio Courier, the avionics bus is powered by a contactor that is activated by the avionics master switch. There is no circuit protection between the contactor and the avionics bus. The wiring between the contactor and the bus consists of two 12ga wires. There also doesn't appear to...

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