Recent content by blazer003

My partner and I are selling ours because we both have babies on the way (just wanted that as full disclosure, that's how I happened upon this post), but every pilot that I fly with can corroborate, the Symphony is a really, really nice airplane. OMF-Symphony took the Glastar and put in a...

Our OMF-Symphony 160 is the last (SN0012) to be produced as "Day VFR only." We obviously knew this when we bought it, but our hope is that we can get it night certified. We've been given the run around by the FAA. The first person my partner and I talked to said if it met the list of...

Sorry guys, right after the checkride (which did go) I was off for the holidays and hadn't had a chance to update, but... I'm now posting as a proud member of the licensed pilots club. Checkride went great. Flew through some snow flurries along the way, and had a bit of trouble getting the...

Yep, we're getting together this evening. And yes, the checkride is tomorrow (if the forecast holds up, you never know. It could be snowing.) And for the Willamette Valley here in Oregon, 20 is just about the coldest it gets on anything that would be called a regular basis. Every 5 years or...

Ah, yes, something I don't worry about too much in my Symphony. One of the other similar Asus models comes with an SSD, but the ones I've seen with the SSD come with the 'Z' processor and I haven't heard as favorable reviews for their 'Z' processor as their 'N', both for battery life and...

Thanks guys. Got a hold of my CFI and he said it looks like a go. I guess I'm just being paranoid. Just never flown in cold weather. This morning went back and reviewed my cold weather flying information. Had forgotten the part that said that visible moisture was needed for structural...

Checkride, or no checkride? My CFI gets home tonight or tomorrow morning, and I haven't been able to contact him. We've already checked everything off and my checkride is scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) and the temp here in Oregon at 10 a.m. is scheduled to be an unseasonably cold 20 degrees...

Not sure what the specs are on your old tablet, but Asus has an eePC netbook that I'm tempted to buy. No tested experience, so I can't give you first hand testimony, but it reportedly has pretty good battery life...

No answer. He must have come up short... :wink2:

I'm looking at getting an Asus touch screen tablet PC for this very reason. Do all my flight planning on it, and a very nice accompaniment to the somewhat limited 250XL we have installed.

After reading a few articles and forum posts, I'm all of a sudden quite worried about what soaps and detergents I'm using on my Symphony. I had just been using some car washing detergent and not thinking much about it, and don't really see any damage from what I've been using (I forget the name...

+1 for clearing turns.