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Flying is so much nicer with avgas under $3 (USD)
Paid $3.94/gal at SLK yesterday. Weather sucked: 2000 overcast (forecast
promised 15000 or better): a trip to Adirondacks turned out to be much less scenic than expected. The FBO was great, though: friendly people, quick service, no landing fee. VOR reception can be intermittent in the mountains (duh). A weird thing happened: I had a panel-mounted GPS used for DME purposes, and once in the mountains it started losing sats like every five to ten minutes, going into self-test mode every time. Very annoying. I couldn't help remembering NW_pilot's glass cockpit story. This was also a garmin box (don't remember which one), and it was rendered practically useless. South of GFL everything went back to normal. Can't really explain it. Andrey Ron Lee wrote: Airnav had FTG at $2.99 so I called to verify supply. Turns out that they dropped 100LL to $2.94 a gallon today. On the way back home the plane flew nicer, the air was smoother and all was right in my world. Ron Lee |
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