One one of my mandatory days off. I did what else.... fly. Not purely for pleasure but I had some personal business to attend to in the next state. No Problem, Spend 8.5 hours in the car driving each way. There is just no easy way to get from Boise, ID to Missoula, MT on the ground. It is a...

Airbus has been the subject of a daily article this week in the Wall Street Journal. Today's story reported yesterday's meeting with financial entities in Europe. At this meeting Airbus disclosed that the breakeven number of A380 aircraft now stands at 420 articles. This is up from the previous...

Well, we've now flown behind the Garmin 496 for 10 weeks, and around 20 flights, and we've decided that -- despite having an awful screen and a slow processor -- we'll keep it. The fantastic benefits of having on-board weather simply outweigh the painful truth that the 496 represents a bad...

Hi all, I hesitate to ask this question, since on rec.aviation this kind of thing always turns into a religious war, but here goes: a bunch of us are getting ready to go in on a new plane together. I travel with my family, and have already lost one engine over the woods, so the candidates are the...

It's funny how anything less than $100 seems cheap when it comes to fixing something on an airplane (especially when it's your own airplane). Hmmm, must be because after the inevitable $1000+ repairs, anything less than $100 seems like chump change. Go figure. When we bought the Arrow, one...

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Hello, Does anyone have any more information about this new product from Garmin? Price or any reviews that may be out already? http://www.garmin.com/products/g600/# Thanks, -dr

I just spoke with Lycoming regarding my very high fuel flow. Recently I've had a problem where I'm getting almost double my normal fuel flow at idle even with the mixture at the edge of cut-off. I suspected a servo but called Lycoming. They said I may have a nozzel with a blockage and the other...

Well, I just got Christmas in October... Last two take offs out of three, the left engine (~700 smoh with ~ 5800 total) has sagged off a bit then by the time the gear was up it picked back up... Flew over to the kindly old shoemakers shop - err, sorry, wrong fable - mechanics shop for a pow wow......

I just finished writing out paychecks... My employees are a mix of more skilled and lesser skilled folks... The higher skills are paid more obvious averaging a $100 a week more in gross pay... One my more skilled employees has a husband with MS (is on expensive drugs) and both of them continue...

Its bbbbaaaaaaacccccckkkkkkk. I thought we had the 396 reception problems solved with the unit swap and upgraded firmware. On climb out the thing lost its lock again and continued to do so until I changed course. That ain't gonna be an option on a plan in IMC (uh, center, I need to change...

I am in the process of wiring a Garmin 496 into my 182, using the Garmin supplied accessory data cable. After reading about all of the problems with the 396 496 Data Cable connectors coming apart, I cut the cable to about a foot, installed a male DB9 connector on the cable, and the matching DB9...

I stand corrected. Our little adventure at the avionics shop where we found our second GS simply disconnected due to recessed connector pins cost us $190 to fix, not $95. So, while I was off by a factor of 2 on the price, still, less than .2 AMUs doesn't seem all that bad. A partner and I...

Well, not the whole tire, just a stipe to find the valve stem. Anyone have any wisdom on the effects of paint on tires, paint you absolutely shouldn't use, etc? I would guess exterior latex house paint would be harmless to tires and would last a while, but since I just put on tires, I hate to...

Previously on my quest for an airplane... I passed on the Sundowner because of the recent and extensive damage history. In September I found a 79 Tiger with recent paint and interior, decent avionics, about 2400 TT and 350 SMOH. There was damage history from a bird strike, but this was almost...

The owner of a flight school at my airport (PAE) told me today that he'll soon install a 1500 gallon fuel tank for 91 octane autofuel, to supply fuel for his STC'ed cherokees and the Stingsport LSA on his flightline (he's a dealer for Stingsport LSA). What a concept! He can save a whole bunch on...

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with the Avidyne TAS600 traffic alerting system? Regards Tarif Halabi C-GQGD

Has anyone here heard of something called the "Charter Quest Team" from the FAA? Does anyone know who runs it? What FARs, AC or other document regulate its activities? -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

http://www.m-tc.com/efs2500_home.htm They're website is quite impressive, they have a few gallaries of this stuff being used on Biz Jets and the like, and it (seems to) work remarkably well. Any experiences? My "Too good to be true" alarm is going wild, but If it performs as advertised (and as...