Recent content by CaptainXap

Yeah - they run on the Tufty 2040 displays with embedded RP2040 microcontrollers. The biggest pain in the ass was getting them talking to the flight sim. It's annoying that the USB HID specifications for flight sim hardware is rather limited, because it means everybody has to write their own...

If you ever like to **** about with flight simulators, you could make some little avionics for them:

Related to this, what's the best Windows calculator app? The one in Windows 10 now is terrible. I do have a few Casio scientific calculators which I fairly often use, but I like being able to use a calculator on the computer because of the ease of copy & paste.

I think this is why ease of construction is important. If you're building an RV, you know that you've got 3000 hours of bucking rivets ahead of you, so it's largely only going to be taken on by people who know that they'll enjoy spending years building the thing. If you can build an aircraft in...

The obvious answer (if the owner was prepared to let you fly the plane in the first place) would be to ask them to put you in contact with their CFI who would do the checkout for you. Or is your suspicion here that once they soloed they decided a student cert was enough, and they never bothered...

Yikes, looks like Skyreach just stopped making the BushCat:

Related to this Icon thread, where the suggestion is made that we need a sub-$100k airplane: https://pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/icon-spirals-in.146811/post-3506186 How could such an airplane be made? Let's assume such an airplane would be a two-seater, VFR only. I think it's worth...

Do you think they would move out of the hangars when the plane is complete?

Wait, are you throwing shade on the airport or the city?

There's an aviation maintenance course at the college of Alameda, and their workshops are right next to Oakland International, I believe. https://alameda.edu/home/business-entrepreneurship-transportation/aviation-maintenance-technology-amt/ Might be fun if Oakland or San Francisco are your kind...

Despite all the hate, I think this is quite a neat idea. It would be cool to have something that could give you two minutes of power - just enough to get you back to the airport if you had an engine failure of takeoff. I like the idea of replacing something that's already there (the starter...

and then... did you go to college twice?

If you're interested in doing any of your own maintenance, you might consider joining your local EAA chapter. As well as being able to give you advice about that stuff, they might have valuable experience of buying experimental aircraft.

My assumption is that it will make things like the Texas judge reversing the FDA's approval of an abortion drug more common and more likely to succeed: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortion-pill-case-texas-judge-halts-access-mifepristone-rcna72117

My theory is that the people in charge of providing a lot of this funding are wishcasting. They live is an urban area like the bay area or NYC and are dismayed by the amount of time they spend on highways between San Francisco, Mountain View, San Jose, and whatever extremely expensive...