I recently submitted my 2010 Program Letter to my local FSDO, and he replied with "In reviewing your program letter it was determined that it needs to be revised", followed by excerpts from 8130.2F 11/5/2004 (page 166). (Alas he did not get specific wrt the needed revisions.) All I did was take my...

To date, less than 5% of the L-13 owners have placed comments to the latest AD grounding your bird indefinitely in just three days. The newest AD applies to EVERYONE, even the poor guy I know with a factory zero timed L-13 he paid 18k for. TODAY AT MIDNIGHT IS THE DEADLINE FOR...

In addition to the NDF-based airspace files that subscribers at justsoar.com will receive, turnpoint files describing airports from the current FAA NASR database will also be provided with the download. I think this feature will be pretty useful. If you provide a turnpoint file to the web page to...

Files are available for individual states, or the entire country: http://www.justsoar.com/public/ http://www.justsoar.com/public/sua/USA.sua http://www.justsoar.com/public/openair/USA.txt They are not of much use for most pilots except for adding to the SeeYou display, but a few like to have...

This is in beta, so help me test before the season starts. No login necessary, just download one of the following files: http://www.justsoar.com/public/tfr/curtfr.sua (Newport-Peace format; SYM, others) -or- http://www.justsoar.com/public/tfr/curtfr.txt (OpenAir format; for WinPilot, others)

Okay, this is partially a plug for my own web site, but after helping a couple of WinPilot users set up their data files, I want to offer these suggetions to other users who might be struggling with the same setup questions: (1) As mentioned on WinPilot's web page, the airspace data...

Two years young, GPS antenna and old cables, original box, works great. No longer needed thanks to my PowerFLARM. ~ted/2NO (tedcwagner ... gmail ...)

http://www.justsoar.com/public/nasr_apt/ These kml files provide an easy way to browse airports in Google Earth (current motivation is to examine privately owned strips for landability -- yer welcome, 66!). Each file covers an FAA region as follows: CODE REGION NAME ---- ...

On the SSA website - a must read for owners and anyone that cares about the effect on the future of soaring in the US with 1/5 of the training fleet being grounded!

I can't find any recent discussions on FlarmNet, which is plugged in the Butterfly display manual. Are most USA PF users registering on FlarmNet.org? How is the .bnf file installed? Is it used by the BF display, or by the PF core? Most importantly will it make me fly faster???

"Buy it now" for $750. Will place on ebay with much lower reserve in a few days if not sold by then. The whip antenna includes a magentic base for metal topped vehicles. ~ted/2NO (collecting scratch for an Oudie, one used item at a time ...)

Less than two years old, serial number 4HA, software version 2.63, calibration date 1/24/2008, offered at $2000. I've been using this as a backup logger but I'd like to switch to a lower cost flight recorder that uses its own power supply. Also available for an additional $200 are an iPAQ hx4705...

I was recently contacted by my local FSDO (Scottsdale AZ) with a request to do a ramp inspection of my glider. He explained that starting this year, he is required to do "a ramp inspection and records review of every aircraft that is operating on an air racing and/or exhibition special...

The FAA's charting office (NACO) has delivered on their promise to properly depict the Grand Canyon Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) in the National Flight Database (NFD). I have some Google Earth snapshots of the new airspace, and the kml file, he http://justsoar.com/public/stuff/ Reminder...

Just noticed the Region 6 North contest going on at the moment and wondered how they work the handicaps for a combined 15M $ STD Class contest. It appears as though all the 15M are handicaped at 1.0 and the Std at something else. How is it done officially? Bob

Interesting airport numbers from the FAA's NASR datamabase: FacilityType Count AIRPORT 12641 BALLOONPORT 15 GLIDERPORT 34 HELIPORT 5413 SEAPLANE BASE 497 STOLPORT 80 ULTRALIGHT 135

The 0912 cycle was pretty quiet because the FAA was too busy mucking up the 0913 edition. A couple of issues users should be aware of: (1) The "Restrictive Airspace Name" field in the subject release is missing the first character for most (if not all) airspace records. Those those of you in...

For as long as I've been flying anything, including and especially gliders, I've had a CFI endorse a cockpit checkout in my logbook, for any new aircraft type I flew. Can someone tell me what/who requires this? Is it strictly insurance companies, or is there a relevant FAR paragraph? The reason...

I think the Hualapai tribe is trying to elbow out Luke AFB as the top airspace grabber in Arizona: http://www.footflyer.com/Articles/News/2009/IndianWar/ParamotorVsIndians.htm -2NO (via CH)

I met with a DAR today with the intent of getting the Certificate of Airworthiness (Experimental, Exhibition/Racing) for the new glass slipper, but he could not complete the transaction because the logbook does not contain an entry indicating inspection within the last 30 days by an FAA certified...