Jay Honeck wrote:
As usual, that's the question I'm hearing from relatives. Also as usual, I
have no friggin' clue what to tell them -- I need nothing.

Nothing except the following items?

1. XM weather for my Lowrance 2000c (According to Lowrance, this is
supposedly "in the works" and "to be ready to roll out at Sun N Fun '06")

Is this official? I have been holding up upgrading to the 2000c
awaiting XM weather capability. Appoach plates display will be another
nice item to have.

2. A new faceplate for my Narco CP-136M audio panel (yes, I'm STILL looking
for one...)

If the faceplate is plastic, you can repair it yourself. We
repaired all the interior cracks in our Cardinal with ABS plastic
(Royalite is ABS plastic) and cement then spray-painted with SEM vinyl
paint. The panels looked almost like new (one has to look real hard to
find the repaired area).

3. A DVD recorder that will let me quickly and easily transfer 15 years of
home movies onto DVD....

You must have flying movies to include this item in your
aviation-related wish list ;-)
The DVD recorder is easy to operate but extremely limited. I
transferred all old home movies and tapes to DVD using a video capture
card (for something like $20 with nice video editing software - just
got another card for another pc for free after rebate). The software
allows me to mix slide show with movies with editing, music addition
etc. or just straight converting avi, mpeg files to DVD file format.
For the last two years, I have been sending these DVDs as Christmas
presents showing both old and new movies and pictures which are greatly
enjoyed by recipients.

Can you add to the list? What do *you* want for Christmas?

Good health!


Hai Longworth