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I just talked myself out of this AGAIN. I can't justify spending between $5000 and $6000 for a basic flight simulator even though I can log approaches in it (with a two month lookback). The cost of the sim is worth about 75 hours in my own plane or (!!!) 275 hours renting the local - and...

If anyone has any questions, wants help building something like this, or just wants to offer me advice, please don't hesitate to reply or PM me! I have had a Smoothwall Express based firewall running on a 1GB RAM Pentium 4 that I got for free many years ago. It got to the point where I was...

After much deliberation and an entire bottle of wine, I have experienced the second happiest transaction of my life. I have just recently purchased 1/3 of N62TB, a Socata Trinidad based in Skypark Airport, 15G (Airnav). I know you folks are all about the airplane porn, so: The...

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2014/12/29/Two-dead-after-plane-crash-in-Port-Clinton-ohio.html Still looking for more news. I've already received a couple texts about it.

I am sure my google fu sucks and someone will blow me away with the link to end all links, but i have what amounts to a simple two part question. When were com radios first used in GA aircraft and when was their use common? I have an author friend to whom a fairly precise answer is relevant to...

https://goo.gl/maps/898Za http://www.africansafariwildlifepark.com/public/directions/index.cfm I wonder how low and how annoying I'd have to be to both PCW and the owners of this park to get interesting pictures =)

This thread by Hobobiker inspired me. I decided to do some sim flying yesterday (I have a Saitek yoke, rudder pedals, Cessna TPM, and Cessna trim). I set X-Plane 10 up for non-precision IMC and tried to fly (using the really cool new 430 simulator) from LPR to Y47. As I was approaching...

Momentarily... Wish me luck!

This is not a really interesting story, but as a pretty low time IFR pilot, I thought I'd share. Today I flew from CMH (in a 182/G) to LPR with ceilings at 5000' and the OAT at that level at roughly 1 degree Celsius. I had filed V5 at 3000' to avoid icing. As Columbus approach often does...

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-lake/plane-crashes-in-willoughby-hills-in-lake-county 13 minutes ago. Little news so far.

I'm talking to some different FBOs in the area with some pilot friends of mine, and one of the things that has come up is our desire (especially of one of my more mechanically inclined friends) to see the aircraft logbooks prior to entering a club or flying with an instructor for a checkout. At...

(Really sorry that I don't have pics or video. This was a working flight!) I've always thought that, while private pilots are taught the basics of night flying during their primary training, if my training was any indication, night proficiency seems to be lacking in many pilots. I had some...

I think I'm a'gonna stay on the ground today. Assume the rest of the Michigan folks are waiting for the blue stuff to go away too =)

I almost didn't post about this. This is my favorite 172 from our club. It wasn't an outstanding performer, it tended to blow the flap CB, and the tac shook like a heroin addict, but I loved her. Did most of my instrument training and my checkride in this plane, and just gave my brother in...

Any Oracle partners out there willing to share their experiences? We just stuck our toe into the water with a gold level partnership and are about to start down the certification/specialization path. I know we have a lot of IT folks on the board and I'm looking for PIREPs, especially regarding...

So some jerk hacked into my walmart.com account and ordered a laptop for store pickup. Being the proactive monitor of my account information that I am, I noticed it within 20 minutes and called the Illinois Wal-Mart that was holding the product for pickup. After being hung up on twice and told...

I know there are other threads on watches etc (even on this watch). Here's another one. I just bought one of these: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Timex-Men-s-Ironman-30-Lap-Sports-Watch-Black-Resin-Strap/17206387 Things I like about it: Countdown timer that is easily programmed...

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http://thelapine.ca/harper-says-he-twerks-occasionally-thinks-it-means-tweeting/ Some gems: I thought about posting this in SZ but this is too comedy gold for that.