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    [NA]Tech pet peeve of the week[NA]

    My wife has A.T. &T. pressing 9 bypasses her VM message.
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    IMC Club President: GA Sickness Lies Much Deeper Than We Care To Admit

    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...
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    Tie Down Ropes Dangerous? Yes!

    Atlantic Aviation at MDW has nearly all chains.
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    POA Roll-Call, Airventure 2011

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

    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...
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    How to baffle the TSA screeners and get hassled at the checkpoint

    Maybe you can still get lucky. It seems they've found some more laying around. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/bced/
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    Experience with RAM GPS yoke mount? External antenna required?

    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.
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    Going into St Louis next week, relievers?

    ALN might be a consideration.
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    Chicago Approach turning over a new leaf?

    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...
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    Chicago Approach turning over a new leaf?

    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.
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    [NA] SNOW Skiers -- HELLLLLPP

    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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    21st Century Buggy Whips

    http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=66096&xcamp=google&utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=cpc&zmam=33951326&zmas=12&zmac=112&zmap=66096
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    I'm arguing with an idiot - need FAR reference

    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...
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    Decisions, decisions...presentation at OSH 2009

    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.
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    What do people use?

    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...
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    TSA's New Ridiculous Plan

    I'm reminded of the oft repeated and reworded poem from WWII that ends up: "Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." We should have never let the TSA be formed, we should never have let the TSA make us take off our shoes, we should never have let...
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    -5 flaps

    The obvious question would be: Why doesn't every aircraft, with flaps, have negative flap ability?
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    Looking for an OLD Concord 'comedy' recording

    I've got a record by David Gunson. Not a Concorde pilot but he is British ATC and tells humorous aviation stories. http://www.amazon.com/What-Goes-Up-Might-Come/dp/B00002MOJK
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    Daley leases Midway!

    IIRC, SWA, and possibly the other airlines, have been brought on board with this. They have been promised things like no increase in fees, etc. for X years. I asked at an FBO today what the sale meant to them. They said that nothing should change initially. They just signed a lease with...
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    DUAT or DUATS,.... usage tips requested.

    I use DUATS Golden Eagle as well. Like someone else said, it may be mostly a habit. I've used their product for several years. Prior to high speed, the DUATS interface would work off line. You could put in your proposed route of flight, etc. and then download all the weather information...
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