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Greetings, Can anyone recommend an A&P in the San Francisco Bay area that can do static system checks at the owner's hangar? Thanks. -jav

Here are the web sites of two guys from Northern California flying solo around the world. One, Dean Stahr flying a C-182RG Turbo, turns 80 in Nov, the youngster, Bill Randolph flying an RV-8, turns 77 this fall. My wife and I have talked to Dean on his satellite phone twice Dean's site...

Can anyone suggest a cause for a slight roughness in a well maintained O-470 (1958 C-182). The mechanic has checked both mags and harness wires and plugs, installed a rebuild carb and balanced the prop (which required very little correction). In flight checks of carb heat, mags and unlocking...

The IO-520 in my Cessna 210 is running rough. It seems to run smooth at 1000 rpm but the roughness appears above about 1400. One cylinder is “cold” and apparently not producing any power. I pulled the rocker cover and found that the intake valve spring was broken. My mechanic and I...

Last night, on a short hop back to home base after an instrument lesson (read: extended low power ops), engine shuddered and ran very rough just after level-off and power reduction. Run-up and takeoff were normal, and as usual I leaned like heck for taxi and during runup. About 80 degrees with...

Last time I was looking at airplanes for purchase, I thought I found a website that you could punch in the year, make, and model of an aircraft and some of its key features and it would spit out an approximate value. I thought I got to it from the AOPA website...but now I can not find it. I thought...

Last year, before Christmas, someone posted a link to a crank-up rechargeable flashlight. I was lucky enough to get one from the company who's link was posted before supplies ran out. I later tried to order one for one of my partners without any luck. I just saw an ad for the same flashlight on...

I'm aware that the 912UL has a TBO of 1500 hours (up from 1200 not long ago). What I'm wondering about is if there's also a time-based TBO. For example, I know the Lyc 235 has, in addition to its 2400 hours TBO, a 10 year TBO; in other words, an engine 10 years SMO is to be considered *run-out*...

My per-cyclinder avg EGTs are as follows: #1: 1370 #2: 1390 #3: 1450 #4: 1450 #5: 1480 #6: 1430 The difference is 110 degrees between the coldest and hotest cylinder.

My upper rotating beacon has stopped rotating and I am debating whether to overhaul it or replace it with one of the new Whelen flashing beacons. The flashing beacons are all solid state with no moving parts but cost $800 and I am also concerned about noise since the beacon is located a few...

Continuing on the Rosen Sunvisor repair replacement topic. The $69 replacement lenses that I ordered earlier in the week from Vantage arrived and they look just like the real thing (in fact they came in a box with a Rosen part number tag). However I was expecting them to also be equiped with the...

Word was just getting around about a year ago that it is possible to run some carbureted engines lean of peak. It was discovered that using carb heat would improve the mixture distribution. I had a lot of time early in the year to look into this because our O320 H2AD was apart due to premature...

We had someone from Kansas City who was going to stay with us during the EAA Airventure, but changed his mind about coming. So now my wife and I are happy to offer our spare bedroom in our house in northern Appleton, Wisconsin, about 35 minutes from EAA in Oshkosh. It isn't much, just a futon...

As of this morning Ron Natalie is an instrument rated pilot!! I guess all those impromptu extra vacation days due to haze are over :-). This is great! Margy

pardon my ignorance... Is a rolls-royce O-200 the same as a continental O-200? I mean specifically same overhaul times, same parts, same maintence, etc? I'm interested in a homebuilt with one but don't want to get into some orphan engine. Thanks, Ryan in Madison

I'm putting together a proposal for my club to replace TCs with electric AIs over time. But for this to work, we need an autopilot that can connect to the electric AI (therefo roll-based). I found a new Chelton that looks quite nice, but is likely overkill (in terms of price and function) for...

Wondering if anybody knows the normal location of the roll servo for an S-Tec autopilot in an Aztec. We're having some roll oscillation problems and we'd like to examine the electrical connections and the motor brushes if possible. Thanks Jim

We've got two updates to our Rec.Aviation "Rogues Gallery" of photos thus far this month: - From Montana, Michelle P has updated her listing with some new pix from her fire-fighting gig. See them he http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_i_-_p.htm#P - From New York, Lee "Rosspilot" Ross...

My bad. Things have been so nuts around here, that I've COMPLETELY forgotten my duties as keeper of the rec.aviation "Rogues Gallery." For October, check out http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rec_aviation.htm to see: - David Gamblin's awesome new '76 Piper Warrior (yes, he's switched from girly...