Recent content by Ozone

The access doors on the hubba hubba caps for my club's arrow fell off while i was flying the plane...twice. They never seemed to be well-secured in the first place. I called around, and lopresti doesn't supply the access doors by themselves, just the whole kit. For $270-290, this situation...

it's the 180 in the clouds. I once got badly disoriented doing this, and perhaps i have a little anxiety as a result. For some reason 90 degrees, no problem.

just a standard Takeoff minimums departure, no SID/DP. I've been told by ATC to stay out of the MSP core, even on IFR, due to the big boys being a few hundred feet above our pattern, especially if they are coming in to 30L or 30R. Mostly, this is about me being a bit nervous about making a...

due to the space constraints around SGS, one usually has to make a tight, left, 180 degree turn coming off of runway 34 to head south. It's not too extreme of a 180, but the MVFR/IFR prediction is currently 600-1100 for clouds. I am IFR current, but i dont have a ton of IFR actual experience...

MVFR, with NE winds, predicted for my airport (KSGS) on 4/8/24. Usually, ATC sends us south since KSTP is 1-2 miles north of us. I am not keen to make a tight ascending left turn into the clouds (and still in the pattern, since KMSP is just to the west) and I want to coordinate a more...

I wonder if anyone has found the door yet? They were (mostly) over land when everything went pear shaped.

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. My final configuration that I ordered: 1. AMD ryzen 7 CPU 2. Geforce 4070 GPU 3. 2T SSD 4. 2T HDD 5. 32Gb RAM And, an on-sale 32" Acer curved monitor from costco (not as fancy as the 49" shown above, but should do mostly) With all of this, should I...

good question: the affordable redbird physics suck. I didnt want to spend $10k+ for a system (unless you have a better suggestion?). Mostly i want to practice approaches and flow. I will save my money and use that to fly a real plane every 10 days or so. Also, I live in MN: a place where...

these are great replies! It's also reassuring to know than min-spec machines do just fine. I think i will be going with an IBM type computer after looking at all the pros/cons. Plus, then I can use the same computer for the condor glider sim. Any HD size recommendations? I am tempted to go...

My wife is giving me 1/2 a work table (the other 1/2 is for her cricut Machine). I tend to be an apple person, but I’m open to PC as well. My goal is to run xplane-12 to practice IFR. Here’s what I have so far (from outdated computer):

older interview with Mr. Whittaker, but i think it highlights who he is and how he thinks: https://aviationnewstalk.com/podcast/291-faa-administrator-nominee-mike-whitaker-interview/

They voted to revisit the issue in January. I'm sure the people who were in favor of keeping it open will remember to come to the meeting in January. After all, January in WI is such a hospitable time of year. In all seriousness, anyone showing up to that meeting ought to bring pictures of...

17 landings later...I followed your advice by having a good time in my club's pawnee towplane. It was a really nice day at KSYN today.

Have you looked at the velocity if you are looking at homebuilt? When I spoke with them at Airventure, I got the impression that all the "important" stuff was built by them (wing roots, major attachment points, etc). That would lower my concerns that I would become the next john denver...

What I meant by that is: are you depending on ADS-b from other planes, or your own plane's ADS-b? If your own plane is broadcasting just the 1090ES mhz signal ( like what's in the uAvionix tailBeaconX ), then you wont get weather. If, on the other hand, your own plane is also broadcasting...