A guy in my flying club put together an ingenious little box to keep the cockpit from getting too cluttered with all the wires and antennas needed to use WX Works. Actually, he and two other guys time share the box with their own laptops, and use them in club planes, so the need for portability is...

I can't remember if I posted this before. A guy in my club made a nice little package for his WX Works setup. You can see some pictures at http://xcski.com/gallery/wxworks -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ I think it's a beautiful day to go to the zoo and feed the...

Today the Sony VAIO PCG-TR1AP notebook arrived, so I was able to install WxWorx on it and add the GPS map option. The Sony is a dandy little machine. It's about 10.5"x7"x2" folded up. The screen is 10.6" diag. and, as advertized, very bright. It was easily viewable in the car when I took it for a...

My 2-year old WxWorx receiver wouldn't power up in the airplane weekend-before-last. Investigation showed the fuse blown in the DC power adapter. I replaced the fuse and the new one promptly blew. I sent the receiver and the power adapter back to WxWorx for repair the following Monday (8/22). ...

Yesterday was one of those sopping wet, unstable Gulf Coast spring days and I needed to get an Angel Flight couple from Mobile to Jennings, LA (3R7, west of Lafayette) in the afternoon. By the time we were ready to leave BFM at noon, the NEXRAD on our route looked like a cheap Hawaiian luau shirt...

Anyone have one of the first units? WxWorx website is stating they are now shipping. Looking for some firsthand reports. I gave up on Garmin's GDL-49 (tactically useless), and Control Vision (transponder interference problems with some KT-76 transponders and flaky downloads in some areas of the...

said if the candles ignited the CS gas: "The air would catch fire". o Janet Reno testified they COULD NOT FIGURE OUT a way to pump in fire-retardant gas, even though they worked hard at it. They even considered an armored fire truck that apparently exists somewhere. The...

King Jr., the Reverand Ralph Abernathy, Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and Chicago Seven defendants Abbie Hoffman and David T. Dellinger. A frightening side effect of the watch list program was the tendency of most lists to grow, expanding far beyond their original intent. This...

http://news.discovery.com/space/secret-mini-shuttle-lands-in-california.html "Shrouded by darkness, the military’s miniature space shuttle -- a unmanned robotic craft -- returned early Friday from a trial run in orbit that spanned 224 days." --- Mark IV

The fuel capacity of the 172M that I fly is considerably larger than my bladder capacity, that's a fact. A glider-guider friend of mine suggested I think about one of these: http://biorelief.com/store/stadiumpal.html# Anybody out ever try this? Any PiReps?

Planning to go x-country in the US May next year. Routing will be (roughly): Houston - Chicago - Bangor - Jacksonville - Houston. Any airports along the way we should visit besides for refueling? Please advise. Thanks. Mark The Netherlands

A friend and I are planning to fly from Cranbrook BC down toward Yellowstone (WYS) in a 172. We thought we'd go through customs at Kalispell. Only have a couple of days. Any suggestions on the route to take, local weather tips etc? We have some mtn experience. Gillian

Scenario: student pilot on x-country solo. About 50hrs. Planning went fine. One long outbound leg (to satisfy the FARs) and two shorter inbound legs to fulfill the three landings requirement. Outbound leg: went great. Course maintained and all visual landmarks nailed, within a minute of...

I don't remember seeing anything about this here. Interesting story: http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/tfr.html Austin also has his Cirrus for sale as well: http://www.aso.com/aircraft/97947/ I hope it's not because of the TFR violation. Maybe he's upgrading? Marco

After reading the great article in EAA Mag about the X-Plane flight simulator, I went online and bought a copy. I installed it and the scenery disk per instructions, even logged into the online help and downloaded the Cozy IV airplane. I can fly it from my home airport (ksrq) in Florida. I have...

Has anyone had any experience with this device? http://www.dandyercfi.com/xwindsim/ Is it a valuable training aid or just another toy? I will be driving up through California and am considering taking a training session. How else could I try my hand at howling gusty crosswinds and not worry...

Had a chance to try X11 today. First impressions, comparing to 13.4 I normally use: 1. gel pads of X11 are thinner, and they're flattened, and aren't as tight against the head as the 13.4 ones. As a result, passive attenuation of 13.4 is vastly superior to passive X11. 2. weight. X11 is...

There was a thread ages ago about the ideal list of things to take on a long XC. I've lost it in a disk crash. Can anyone send this to me? Thanks Duane

Hi All, As a long time lurker I have learning and gained much from this group, now hopefully I can contribute some. I have written a tool that you may find useful. It came about because my wife did not like me asking her to lookup freq. and airport info while flying together. I'm a newly minted...

Sorry to beat this dead horse.... Here is my trip: Leg1 : 49.3 NM .6 Hobbs Leg2 : 59.0 NM .6 Hobbs Leg3 : 36.2 NM .4 Hobbs How much of this can legally be logged as Cross Country Time?