Based at RDU, looking for a nearby paint shop for my Mooney. Tell me about your experience. Need interior overhaul, too. Could be the same shop or different one. Thanks. Remove SHIRT to reply directly. -- Dave Butler, software engineer 919-392-4367 We now return to our regularly scheduled...

The following from avweb.com: By Mary Grady Newswriter, Editor Garmin issued a service alert on Wednesday warning users of some of its brand-new GNS 430 and GNS 430A units not to use them for IFR operations. It was the company's second service alert this month to include those units....

On a related note: there was a thread here earlier about wireless access at Oshkosh. IIRC the sad conclusion was that there was no access very nearby. I wonder whether anyone has contacted EAA and requested that they get on the stick and provide WiFi on the North 40. Is there any chance EAA would...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/01/family.plane.ap/index.html I wish she hadn't said that part about reading while she is flying.

Maybe someone can save me a trip to the airport to measure. Specifically, looking to mount a Davtron 800 clock, will it fit? While I'm at it, is there a convenient way to wire the clock for continuous power when the master is off, or do I need the "B" model clock with the built-in alkaline...

MEMORIAL GATHERING for Geoffrey Gilbert Peck Dear friends and colleagues of Geoffrey, Please join us to share our sadness and our stories of Geoffrey Gilbert Peck on Sunday, September 24th, 2006 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA from 1 P.M. to 6 P.M.

Someone on the GNS480 yahoo group posted some text this morning from Garmin Service Bulletin #621, to the effect that the GNS480 does not comply with the TSO, and that it reverts to TSO C129 type operations, for example requiring alternate airports to have ground-based approaches, having...

http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv Dave

I have an M20J and I'd like to be able to take a bicycle sometimes. It's OK if it doesn't fit through the baggage door, just needs to fit inside the cabin and not block access through the (only) door. No passengers, just me in the left seat. I'd prefer not to remove any seats. I'm willing to...

I'm sure some of you here have scanned your logs into a machine readable format. Please let me take advantage of what you've learned. Do you store the scanned pages as .jpg, or .pdf, or something else? Each page a separate file? Any special software? Did you build an index? If so, how?

Our Mooney just came out of annual and now the tachometer needle doesn't move at all during the magneto check as you switch through R, L, BOTH. The engine does stop running with the switch in OFF. I asked my my partner who manages the maintenance relationship to look into it and he contacted the...

Anyone have any feedback on the dual vacuum-pump STC from Aero Advantage? I'm considering it for my M20J. Need to convince my partners. Info on the STC at http://www.aeroadvantage.com I just spoke to company president David Boldenow, and he said there were about 100 units installed in the fleet....

dutch wrote: Anybody in this news group tried the new dual chamber vacuum pump by Aero Advantage? Seems like a nice redundancy solution for us single engine drivers. This thread from November - December 2002 doesn't have a reference to the web site, so I thought I'd update the thread......

C. S wrote: Does anyone know where I can purchase Baggage Tractors, Containers, Pushback Tractors, etc. Check http://www.trade-a-plane.com Dave Remove SHIRT to reply directly.

Can anyone offer any knowledge of or experience with any of these shops? - Legends Aircraft Refurbishing, Aiken, SC - Grace Air, Inc., Florence, SC - Goodner-Crider Aircraft Painting, Mena, AR - Mena Aircraft Painting, Mena, AR

This has special interest for me because I own a Mooney (that should take care of the on-topicness). I guess I could put this in r.a.piloting, but i don't know anyone over there, and I just wanted to share this with some friends... About 3:00 this afternoon, a Mooney M20M dropped out of a low...

There is a list of placards in the POH (Mooney M20J) and the wording there makes me think they are all required. Some examples from memory a "DO NOT PUSH", "NO STEP", "TIRE PRESSURE xx POUNDS". Sorry, I don't have the POH in front of me at the moment. The Type Certificate Data Sheet at the...

I've done a little prep and found some potential wireless hotspots within about a mile or so of the North 40. Here's my list, in case it's helpful to anyone else: Locations on Koeller: from the N40, go W to US41, then N to Koeller. Fairfield Inn Oshkosh 1800 S Koeller St ...

This is something that has puzzled me for a while... I (a private pilot) work in the pleasure marine industry and have noticed that almost anyone who wants to own a boat does own a boat. Now, some boats are indeed pretty cheap, but a $20,000 boat is fairly common (approx cost of a 150?). Here in...

I have tried to get the current AD's for small airplane engines on the MyPlane web site. When I click on the Small Airplane Engine AD link, it leads to Large Airplane Engine AD's. Has anyone had the same problem? If so, where else can one find the current AD's for the 0-470 series- as in Cessna...