Hey, Folks: Grab a beer on me, I'd like to solicit some more opinions. If you've read the other thread on airplane comparisons, you know I'm shopping for an airplane. So, I have another question. This time, not how to compare airplanes, but how to make an apples-to-apples comparison...

Hello, Our KNS-80 today wasn't 100%. Infact, for most of the day it was U/S. Here is some background... today was cold...-15C (5F). I turned on the heat in the hangar about 90 minutes before the flight so that the cabin would get warm. Once i started the plane and turned on the avionics...

Another newbie question for the group: (I feel like this MUST have been discussed here before, but my search came up empty--if I need to work on my USENET search skills, try to be gentle with me....) Can anyone help me decode what's going on with Lycoming's SB 569? It seems like all the...

Is there a place one can get the historical price of new planes for the past 10-20 years ? Want to know how the price of planes moved up over the years. Second question is about the price difference between the manufactures and the dealers. Can one project that the bigger the difference, the...

Hello, All! About a year ago, I started airplane shopping. For personal and professional reasons, I had to back-burner that after never getting past the tire-kicking stage. Along the way, I got a lot of help from folks on this board, so now I'm returning to the fount as I prepare to begin...

SportPilotTalk.com has just launched The Affordable Flying Initiative (AFI) to help make flying more affordable. Read all about it at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Affordable_Flying/

Went flying today. Go to crank the engine for start, nothing. Turn the key, got like a jiggle of the prop. Turn all electrical things off, figuring the battery drained, and then started just the alt and bat, same thing, jiggle of the prop. Tried once more, and got the prop to turn and fired...

I just read about the GNS530W Pilot Guide. In page 3, it says: NOTE: The GNS 500W-series units use a different database than in the legacy units. The databases are incompatible between units. The GNS 500W-series units must use a WAAS enabled database. Can anyone who has...

I am thinking of fitting K2U gap seals on my Archer. Are they worth the cost ? Thanks for all input Jim

Big Bertha Thing tactics To whom it may concern. (Newsgroup: rec.aviation.owning) To defend against a denial of service attack on a newsgroup, use the same tactics that Big Bertha Thing uses on the most wanted list guys. 1. All threads are one posting long. 2. All replies are posted to one...

Well, Fat Albert goes for his annual condition check today... Not much on the punch list... Repair the trim tab indicator wire which has snapped - which requires someone to crawl all the way into the tail cone... Not fun and pushing near my seventh decade I decided discretion was the better part...

Just got the word from the A&P that the exhaust system on my 1976 M model 172 needs overhauling because of cracks and leaks. I'm compemplating replacing it with a Power Flow Systems tuned exhaust rather than having the stock OEM system overhauled. The A&P is guessing the overhaul cost will be...

Hi Guys, I am in the market for a new hand held GPS. Looking at Garmin, Lowrance and AvMap, but just recently found the AnyWhere Map Software, with using a BlueTooth GPS and Dell Axim Pocket PC. To me it looks like a great combination of screen size, ease of use and "ugradebility". Cost...

I like your oshkosh foto show, nice work. How do I log onto the F-18 Video site? Happy Flying, Peter "Mike Noel" wrote in message ...

Just a test to see if it's working Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com

This is what would be built if Jay was really rich: http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/02/08/crazy_man_drops.html (Crazy? nah..) -- Eduardo K. | http://www.carfun.cl | I'm white and nerdy

For two years I have chased the cause of the famous Cherokee Fluctuating Ammeter. Somewhere in here it became obvious that the problem was load related, ie turning off loads cured the problem for a time. This resulted in changing switches, loads and curses. It should have become obvious somewhere...

Warning! Danger! Shameless Self-Promotion! After four years of preparation and two years of work, the "Oshkosh Suite" -- our 17th aviation theme suite -- is finally complete! With 24 consecutive Oshkosh Fly-Ins under our belts, we *knew* from the moment we bought the hotel in '02 that we...

On 1/31/2007 3:31:14 PM, "pgbnh" wrote: But anyway, what's the common wisdom on preheating. I park my aircraft in an unheated t-hangar in central NY state. Normally, I plug the Tanis heater in when temps get around 40 degrees and I will further wrap the cowling and cover the prop with an...

Hello, We don't have any static wicks on our plane. With the -20C dry dry weather we've been having, the radios have some static and the VOR has been a bit wonky as of late. A couple things I've read are affected by static. I have a Twin Comanche. Can anyone suggest a good static wick and how...