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    Feedback on ADS-B tower locations

    Thanks for the complete directions, John. We hope to be out there in a few months, altho' that may be too late to make much of a contribution to your project. Best wishes, Jack
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    Feedback on ADS-B tower locations

    John, thank you for your efforts on this issue. And for your submitted proposal on redefining the airspace requirements WRT the ADS-B mandate under the Class B airspace & its veil. FWIW I've seen and commented on that proposal in several other forums, so I can that it's received attention...
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    Someone want to sell their DVD 'The Annual Inspection'?

    This DVD was done by Jeff Simon some years ago. Would also be interested in his volume on Preventative Maintenance (Vol 1). Any pro/con comments on these DVDs?
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    Jekyll Island 09J - for the day or weekend

    For those of you in the Southeast, please feel free to join the Recreational Aviation Foundation the weekend of October 4th-6th on Jekyll Is. For those who haven't visited there, it's a small barrier island on GA's coast with a very unique history, little development and a quiet, natural...
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    Surprised annual discrepancy

    Actually, I think corrosion treatment at the factory on the AA5X's began sometime during manufacture of the 1978 models. There certainly is a lot of speculation in this thread about corrosion the poster hasn't personally witnessed...along with a lot of implied conclusions about Grummans from...
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    Major Jacksonville Fly-in/Drive-in Event at KCRG Sept. 8th

    The Jacksonville Aviation Authority (JAA) and EAA Chapter 193 are co-hosting their very popular Wings 'n Wheels combo car show and aviation event at Craig Airport on Saturday, September 8th (rain date: 15th). Fly-ins are especially welcome with reserved, free parking available that is...
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    Time to Comment on Keeping 'Chicken Strip' in Saline Valley Open

    I received this 'Call to Action' from the Recreational Aviation Foundation this morning and thought those of you in the Southwest might want to hear about the Comment Period that has just been opened up. Here is the appeal: The Recreational Aviation Foundation needs your help. Here is the...
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    "Graduate" IFR

    Alfa, I'd encourage you to shop all the free on-line ASI seminars and 'real pilot' stories, as many of them incorporate (or are solely based around) real world scenarios. Nice touches is that ASI automatically maintains your transcript (for both completed in in-process) programs and...
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    'Ask the Controller' Thread

    OK, enough with the headset/phone coaching. Let's let this serve as an 'Ask the Controller' thread... Jack
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    'Ask the Controller' Thread

    Thanks for the comments, folks. (Why will I need to shut down? To hear the TraCon person who answers the Ops Center phone...). Here's a Q I asked my son not long ago. (Dev flies many hours on behalf of Uncle Sam's Canoe Club, and I was interested in how he would answer the Q): 'How often is...
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    'Ask the Controller' Thread

    One of the best and longest lasting threads over at the RV forum (Vans Air Force) has been 'Ask the Controller'. Several controllers/RV owners are kind enough to monitor the thread and provide A's - as best they can - to both IFR-specific and more general TraCon Q's. Using the 'search'...
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    iPad3

    Apps & the iPad3 Let's expand this discussion just a bit. For those of us who will be new to the iPad Universe (yes, some of us are of the 'unwashed'...), which 'functional' (not game) apps not already in the iOS have shown themselves to be especially useful?As one example, I'm looking forward...
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    IFR Charts (on-line) Course

    Probably everyone here knows of the on-line courses (and many other on-line resources) offered by AOPA's Air Safety Institute. Most of you have no doubt taken at least one - perhaps every one - of these. I just wanted to specifically recommend the IFR Charts course (includes A/FD, SIDs and...
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    IFR Ground School

    These suggestions show how varied one's learning style can be, so my first advice is not to overlook what worked best for you in the past. IMO a big miss in all the advice is overlooking an Instrument ground school course. See if there aren't 2/3/4 folks in your area who at least aspire to an...
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    ipad use and flying

    "Expect that $19.95 fee to go up come Summer." Correction. Expect ALL chart fees to go up, altho' no one yet knows if it will be in the summer. NavAero obviously had to go back to Step 1 and reconsider their approach. So for now, each provider's data update fee is a valid measure of its cost...
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    ipad use and flying

    ...and speaking of the cost of these apps, those of you with iPads might want to look at SkyCharts. "For just $19.95, you get access to the full US database of charts and procedures, in 9 geographic regions, each of which requires less than 1GB of memory to store, updated periodically, for a...
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    Fly-Camp - Have 172Q Will Travel

    I'm posting this update because, after 16 months, some of the links in this thread no longer work and because it's the best single thread on both personal recommendations and 'airport + camping' search engines' that I've found so far. If you - like me - are looking for some search engine tools...
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    Camping airports in the Appalachians?

    The link for Rough River has been updated and can now be found here: http://parks.ky.gov/parks/resortparks/rough-river/default.aspx Jack
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    Should I renew AOPA membership?

    Perhaps it's time for a deep breath... This thread is a good reminder of the dark mood we seem to collectively suffer from right now...and that we perhaps reinforce to some extent when contributing to threads like this. Conceptually, we all know that no organization is perfect, that politics...
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    Should I renew AOPA membership?

    Back to the original Q re: an AOPA membership? A fair bit of the non-renewal logic expressed here seems to be full of WIIFM - 'What's in it for me?' Depending on how myopic one chooses to be, some of AOPA's 'WIIFM' can be missed altogether. E.g. I see no reference here to the almost new...
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