Recent content by CarlinNH

Ok thanks. Do you happen to know the details regarding why ?

Very good, I appreciate the clarifying details, thanks !

Excellent, I appreciate the input. Would you be able to confirm for me: does the electric tach need to be installed by the appropriately licensed avionics shop, due to the need to set the engine time ? I know there is a line between what my A&P is allowed to do, and what I need a licensed...

Right, I get that about needing tach in order to legally fly. Part 91.205 (b) states, in the list of minimum required instruments, "Tachometer for each engine." That sounds like putting an optical tach on the top of the panel is all I need to do in order to comply and legally fly while the...

During my last flight, the tachometer started jumping wildly around the dial, then went to zero. No change in the engine sound, so possibly just a broken cable, but I put the plane down as soon as I could. I am trying to get it looked at by A&P asap, but currently I am not really sure what the...

It shows the changes since 1995 (not sure of the significance of that date)

Beautiful, thanks ! I actually know about the Abandoned & Little-known Airfields site (airfields-freeman) and have enjoyed poking around it quite a bit. I did look up the Kingston entry a couple of days ago, but it seems to be for a different field than the current one -- it closed in 1949...

Sure: IGN -- I think Kingston, NY, but the identifier for the existing airport at Kingston, NY is 20N B20 -- somewhere in Maine, I believe

I am going through my plane logbook, which includes older entries that are not mine. There are some entries which seem to indicate trips to airports (3-character identifiers), but which are not coming up in my search (AirNav, and a few others, eg the FAA lookup). I presume that these are...

Thanks, I was wondering if that might be the reason, although that area of the chart did not seem that cluttered to me.

Bingo, thank you. Clicking on the Enroute chart (IFR chart) in SkyVector, I see they have the RNAV Waypoint symbol defined there. And this verbiage I found elsewhere seems to explain why we see it on the VFR sectional, at least for certain cases: "If an RNAV waypoint is collocated with an...

This has been driving me a little batty today, since I cannot find clear explanations. In the attached screen cap from New York sectional, I am comparing 2 VORs: Hartford (HFD) and Norwich (ORW). Question 1: Both of them are indicated by their symbols as VOR-DME, yet the text in the Norwich...

TRIP REPORT: So, I made the trip and settled on Natchez for my overnight stay, but the Weather Gods laughed at my puny plans. I had to abort my trip that day and diverted to spend the night in Covington, just east of Atlanta -- which turned out to be a very nice airport and which I have no...

Thank you for the great suggestions all ! Trip is planned for over a month from now -- if I do it, I will update this thread with my actual experience. Cheers.

Hi all: I am planning a trip east to west and will need to stop for the night somewhere in western Mississippi. I am crossing the Appalachians just to the north of Atlanta heading southwest to Texas, and so Jackson area is convenient to my planned route of flight. I am considering going into...