I'm on a roll now -- so here's a new page of pix Mary and I took at the National Air Tour stop yesterday, in Anoka, MN. If you like old planes, find the nearest place the tour is stopping, and get thee to it! http://www.alexisparkinn.com/national_air_tour.htm Enjoy! --

Okay, I had a little time today to create a webpage where we can display our favorite airplanes! See it at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rec_aviation.htm I've only had time to add MU-2 Mike, Mary and me, and pictures from the rec.aviation party we held at OSH 2003. I've got a couple of more...

The guy did a nice job, at a great price. See some pix at: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/new_interior.htm -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination"

And it only took 15 months... ;-) When we bought Atlas (our '74 Cherokee 235 Pathfinder, named because he can lift ANYTHING we can fit inside) in 2002, the only thing I didn't like was his interior. We immediately replaced the ceiling plastic, but the rest of the interior was tired, too. A...

Six weeks ago my attitude indicator gave up the ghost, after slowly dying over a period of several months. It's been replaced with a re-built unit that's working fine. Two days ago my directional gyro abruptly failed. It worked fine flying into Pella, and it didn't work at all flying out. The...

....why our Lycoming engines call for 12 (or 8) quarts of oil, when they blow out anything over 8 (or 6) quarts? My old A&P, a real gray head with decades of aviation experience, mentioned the reason to me in conversation today. Here's the poop: When Lycoming was certifying these engines, they...

We hope.... :-) Six months in the making, our new Amelia Earhart Suite is finally done! See it at: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/the_amelia_earhart_suite.htm --

Is it legal to have your A&P install a "power port" (NOT a cigarette lighter outlet) in your panel? Does it require a field approval? I want something on the pilot's side that is more robust than a cigarette lighter, to power our yoke-mounted GPS. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder...

Is polishing your prop legal? Now that we've got ours almost done, of course one of our airport wags mentioned that it might not be acceptable -- despite the fact that every 10th plane you see has one. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com

Got a problem here, and I'm wondering if anyone else has run into it before. Five years ago (or so) the previous owner of our Cherokee 235 repainted the fiberglass wingtip tanks. Apparently he had an automotive body shop do the fiberglass work, and around the filler necks they used a fiberglass...

http://aviation.c-map.com/ProductInfo/AVMAP/ekp3c.asp Mary and I picked up one of these things in OSH, and I'm absolutely stunned that there has been virtually NO discussion of this almost unbelievable "hand-held" here on the groups. When my Airmap 300 started to get hinky, I started down the...

Okay, so I finally got some time here to post the pics from Oshkosh 2003. Got a couple of good ones from the Rec.Aviation party that we hosted at our campsite in the North 40... See 'em at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2003.htm Look closely, and you'll see pix of Ron & Margy getting...

http://www.manxsr.com/afton/flyin.htm This is the website from the National Cherokee Pilot's Association fly-in, held this past June at the Shangrila Resort in Afton, OK. As you can see, it was very well attended, well organized, and a good time was had by all. For those of you with Cherokees --...

So my AI has been going whacky for several months now -- falling over on its side, then erecting, and so on. We finally realized that, with night-flying season nearly upon us, we'd better replace that boat anchor with an instrument we can trust. Although we don't fly IFR, we DO occasionally fly...

The third digit on my formerly bullet-proof Narco AT-50 transponder has suddenly started displaying incorrectly for ATC. Specifically, it seems to be showing as a "4" on their screens, regardless of what we dial it to in the plane. Thus, instead of squawking "1200" when we're VFR, we're squawking...

Okay, so Cirrus is cooking along at 60 aircraft per month. They're selling everything they can build, and people who have bought them are ecstatic. Fast forward to the year 2018. What's going to be happening to these composite beauties? Reason for asking: A long discussion with some pilots who...

What are the current 6-seat single engine aircraft in production? I can think of the Cessna 206, the newly re-minted Cherokee Six, and the Beech Bonanza (well, it's sort of a 6-seater...). Are there any others? Are there any experimental 6-seaters? I wonder if Cirrus is aiming to release one? --

Well, yesterday I paid for my third of my airplane Congrats, Wayne. Welcome to the world of the joyously impoverished! :) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com

As many of you know, while at OSH 2003 I had one of those inadvertent "once-in-a-lifetime" conversations with the president of Lightspeed Aviation. The story goes as follows: I've had three pair of LightSpeed headset -- two 15s and a 20XL -- that I have purchased over the last four years. The...

By the way, did you put an entry in your airframe log? Even if it wasn't an FAA issue, it would probably be helpful to have the model and serial number recorded just in case it ever gets stolen. Yep! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com