I am a little confused about power setting options on my Piper Turbo Arrow from my power setting table. Assuming I want 75% power, at Sea Level, I can run it at: 1. 2300 RPM and 34.8 inches manifold pressure 2. 2400 RPM and 33.8 inches 3. 2500 RPM and 32.8 inches 4. 2575 RPM and 31.5 inches How...

Cut that one a little close, we did we did. The Oshkosh Bound artwork for printing your own "Oshkosh Bound 2007" posters is up at www.rstengineering.com and then a link from the bottom of that page. Also posted is the updated graphic showing the Ripon-Fisk-Oshkosh transition. Please don't use...

I just pulled up the cloud tops charts and see one labeled FL720 over SE Nebraska/NE Oklahoma/SW Missouri. Is this for real?

The Lycoming 0-360 A4M in our Archer is now 2250 SMOH and we are intending to fit an exchange overhauled engine very soon. The decision to pull the engine out was easy compared with trying to decide on the engine to buy. We have a number of quotes and researched factory and field...

I'm reading the FAA CD for a Tcraft. I see in '90 that it sustained substantial damage, was deregistered as 'totally distroyed', then sold. Apparently someone resurrected it, because it was sold several years later using the same N number and it's currently flying in Florida. The CD (BTW) doesn't...

Greetings gang.. As the title suggests, this is a request for knowledge and assistance, and in much of the situation I am wanting to verify what I THINK I have gleamed from pertinent technical manuals. The background: Partner in an experimental (but posting here, because what I am seeking is not...

You do have to give it to Thomas for coming on here and debating this stuff. Of course in some ways he is blind to how he is perceived, as is everyone probably. His response, which is basically, "if you haven't bought from me you have no standing to evaluate me" shows that he does not see the...

I purchased a 1971 Cherokee 140 shortly after getting back into flying the first of this year. It is a marvelous plane, relatively inexpensive to fly and to maintain. The other night while flying with my instructor he asked me if I typically got this much vibration. I told him that it felt...

Hey all... My Cherokee is almost done with the annual, but in the 75 hours since it was last inspected, the alternator bracket has cracked. It's complicated by the fact that the plane was originally a PA28-140, but now has a Lycoming O-360-A3A. So, the parts book doesn't necessary literally apply....

So here we go again. It's just before 6:15am, and what was a storm a few days ago is evolving into a catagory 1 hurricane. There's not a hanger to be found on the eastern seaboard of Florida, so we're on our way north. You just have to love Florida .... Marty

Awesome! I guess the Murphy Moose lost out? "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ... I just bought a Helio Courier H295, so I am a student pilot again until I get a tailwheel endorsment. The plane is going...

Hi! I have a SL30 and a GNS 430 in my plane. They use the same antenna via a splitter. When I dial in the same VOR in both units the SL30 catches up the radials always between 20 and 50 nautical miles earlier than the GNS 430! (Altitude about 3000 ft, flat area) Is this normal? What is your...

I'm looking at two older Cessna 182's. Both are the same year, both have roughly the same radios, both are in roughly the same condition, both are asking about the same price, except for the following: 1) Plane A has a newly overhauled engine, some hail damage, and newer gyros 2) Plane B has...

Laurent, I'm based at Wings, LOM, just outside Philly. I waited almost a year to get a hanger. It's not much of a hanger. Just a long building with no doors and no walls between aircraft. I don't have to move any planes to get my plane out and it keeps the sun and the rain off. For me,...

Hey all... finally got around to taking a trip in my plane this weekend (busy with school stuff). The transponder appears to be weak and the controllers were none-too-pleased without seeing a squawk, IFR, running next to a TFR... :) They had a tough time receiving my squawk, especially when far...

Hi there, Googling past threads yielded nothing definitive so here goes: On runup today, noted the following: 1. RPM to 1700, switched to right mag, dropped ~150 rpm 2. Increased RPM to 2000, leaned back until I got a 100rpm drop and held for one minute to clear it. We've had to do this pretty...

With the demise of 80/87 avgas, I bought a gallon of TCP and will start adding that to the 100LL that I must now buy. However, scouting around the internet I found something that claims to be similar in function but safer: decalin. Here's a blurb from Aircraft Spruce. My questions are, has...

At least a dozen aircraft from Florida were parked on the north ramp at BFM this afternoon. I didn't meet any of the pilots, so I couldn't ask why they would flee a hurricane yet park at a coastal airport on the edge of the projected path of the storm. I realize that the storm probably will be...

Our annual Fly-In breakfast is THIS Sunday, 8/29, from 7 AM till at least 1 PM (Sometimes longer, depending on demand), here in Iowa City. (KIOW -- See airport info at: www.airnav.com/cgi-bin/airport-get?s=IOW ) This is one of the biggest fly-in breakfasts in the Midwest. The FAA usually sets...

Our normally-aspirated Arrow IV is currently in the shop getting a Lycoming factory rebuilt ("zero time") IO-360-C1C6 installed. This is the first time in my 2000 hr. flying career that I have ever had to deal with an engine break-in, so I would welcome advice from the group. Lycoming apparently...