Recent content by mdreger

My wife has A.T. &T. pressing 9 bypasses her VM message.

Like everyone else I think there are a number of problems, easily identified but difficult to solve, that contribute to the decline of aviation for "common" folk. Capitalism. It appears that aircraft manufacturers have decided it's better to sell 100 with $100,000 profit per plane, than to...

Atlantic Aviation at MDW has nearly all chains.

I'll be there. I'll be wearing a bright pink shirt most of the time.

My daughter is going to school at Midwestern University in Glendale. She's studying to be a Physician Assistant, has completed the first year of classroom, and now goes on to do rotations in various hospitals, etc. For these she needs a car. Most of her rotations are in Chicagoland, but three...

Maybe you can still get lucky. It seems they've found some more laying around. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/bced/

I have that type for my Lowrance 1000 and fly a C172. The only time I need an external antenna seems to be under a heavy overcast layer.

ALN might be a consideration.

MDW has a VFR RADAR position. For a couple of reasons it's rarely staffed, mostly it's combined with the tower position on 118.7. The 119.45 frequency that will be on the ATIS if/when we open the RADAR position. C90 has always done our IFR approach/departure vectoring. MDW only works VFR...

As much as MDW would like to take the credit for good service, 118.4 is a C90 (Chicago TRACON) frequency. MDW's on 118.7.

If you haven't given up and cut it, I experimented with one that I have. I was successful sliding a piece of thin wire (.032 safety wire worked for me, a small paper clip didn't work so well) in the slot where the cable goes in. Keep pressure on it at the top of the teeth on the cable and turn...

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Government agents, like... say... TSA agents barring entry to the gate area unless you submit to being searched and surrender any items they order you to surrender? I don't remember EVER being shown a search warrant particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to...

I can't help with the rest, but I would think that there should be no pressure to get there. It would seem that everyone from Tom P. on down would understand a no, or late show due to a conservative weather/mechanical decision.

How handy are you, and how financially efficient are you? I know someone that asked a road crew what they did with the LED red and green traffic lights they took out of a downed signal. They gave them to him. If you could get some of these, you could build your own high intensity position...