Recent content by Bart Goins

Having "a good idea of the winds by comparing gps ground speed" is a bit different from knowing what the windsock is doing. When you're responsible for teaching a student how to do things the "right way," you must first do things the "right way" yourself. There is no excuse for cutting corners...

Yes, I can!

Thanks, so am I. My Stratus is wired in separately, under the panel somewhere. I haven't got up under there to see how it's wired. I'm wondering if it's wired in through the transponder, if that's even possible.

I solved my issue today, and really I'm almost too embarrassed to say what the cause was. Okay, here goes. The first USB adapter was just a piece of junk. The second USB adapter is really a nice one. So nice in fact, it came wrapped in clear plastic wrap that made it look even better. So...

My wife and I went up this morning so she could try her new headset before our flight down to the CA Central Coast. I plugged my iPad into the usb port in the cigarette light, and still no charge. So, I kinda twisted the usb adapter in the cigarette light, and it lit up and the iPad started...

I checked out the link, thanks. I may have to go that route as well.

Thanks, I appreciate that. I'm sure we'll get tons of pictures along the way.

Did you have to run a separate circuit breaker for this?

That will probably my next step if this cigarette lighter usb port doesn't work. Thanks.

I'll check my usb adapters with the cigarette lighter in my truck. If they work good there, I'll check the output for the cigarette lighter in the plane.

I bought a double usb port adapter that will do 6 amps, 3 amps each.

Is that hard wired in?

That is exactly what I plan to do in the next day or two. Thanks.

I don't know what happened with the radio calls, but my question is simply, why would the CFI do a straight in approach on a windy day without knowing the winds? Doesn't sound like a very safe CFI to me.

I have tried two of them now, and no change. Are you referring to the adapters interfering with the radios?