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Anyone know pilots using these? Am I reading the Basic Med requirements correctly that using one of these weight loss drugs wouldn’t fall under the special issuance requirement? Or is there some underlying required diagnosis to get the prescription that would require a new SI under Basic Med? I...

Currently stuck on the ground on the way to Osh because my avionics master won’t flip on. Appreciate any help.

I have a KFC-200 connected to a KI-256. Just had a static leak traced and fixed, but now my command bars won’t come up. The altitude hold works, but any course guidance does not (nav, GPS, or HDG mode). The FD lights up on the annunciator, but nothing on the KI-256. Any ideas on what could...

I’m out of ideas. I have an intermittent feedback noise coming through my headset - sort of a warble. It has happened a few times and I’ve tried a bunch of things to isolate it to no avail. There are two separate KMA-24H intercoms in the airplane. The one time I had a passenger along when it...

Anyone know if the Foreflight EULA has always had the language about if you’re using an iOS device? Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I was hoping that meant the latest one was an attempt to get everything ready for the eventual port to Android. Seemed like there were a few bad paragraph number...

After Oshkosh this year, I get a chance to take an extra few weeks off. I won't have to be back in Dallas until August 19th, so I was thinking I'd take the long way back. My wife and I were thinking about her meeting me for a few days somewhere along the way (maybe Mackinac or Put In Bay) and...

I did a VOR check a few weeks ago and found that my #1 VOR wasn’t working right. The to/from flag kept flipping back and forth and the indicator was also moving back and forth no matter where I turned the OBS knob. The radio is a KNS-81 and the HSI is a King KI 525A. The ILS and DME functions...

I picked up a pulse oximeter to use while flying at night and at higher altitudes and was having trouble figuring out what "normal" is. Everything I've found online indicates 95+ being normal on the ground, but then info gets scarce for altitude. For example, should I be worried about something...

I'm frustrated with the flying club I'm in. The airplanes are hardly ever available for more than 2 hours, except at night. I've been plugging away with night IFR training just for convenience (last 10 hours has been night simulated IFR), but can only do that with a CFI since I have a...

Had my first truly stranded-because-of-weather day yesterday. Low ceilings forced me to land in Waco, and when I finally had ceilings to get back to Dallas, I ran into an unreported thick haze and -5 on the OAT gauge. I ended up turning around and landing back at KACT. The folks at Texas...

If you have a mole or other freckle/skin spot you get looked at and the doc says to either take it out as a precaution or biopsy it or watch it, what are the 3rd class medical implications? Based on my research, I think it is unlikely to end up being instructed to watch it for a while before...

I'm going to a wedding in Scottdale in a few weeks, and will have some free time not filled with golf or wedding festivities. When I went to Napa a year ago, I rented a plane and got an instructor to tour the valley and the bay. I'm trying to decide if I should try to set up something similar...

Rode in the back of a Cessna 208 a couple days ago and noticed there was a big rectangular piece of glass attached to the windshield with a wire coming out of it. Anyone know what that was? Sorry, didn't get a picture.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/americans-cellphones-targeted-in-secret-u-s-spy-program-1415917533 You can put your foil hat on now.

I ordered a bunch of charts with 2 day shipping, mostly so I would have the San Francisco sectional before my trip to Napa this weekend. Well something happened and they didn't get them to me in time. They've already refunded the entire purchase. If only other businesses were as good about...

I'm planning to fly into KGOP this weekend for a little dove hunting, but the airport is in the middle of an MOA and just north of R-6302D. If the wind is out of the north, I'll probably need to touch the edge of that airspace. I remember the book answer is that I need permission from the...

I'm going to San Francisco in November for work, followed by a weekend in Napa for a wedding, and I was thinking it would be neat to see the bay area from the air and get a bit of a new challenge with the airspace I'm not used to. I thought it would be reasonable to find a CFI that would go up...

Last weekend, I was coming back into a towered field on flight following. I heard the tower clear a Challenger to land, then told a 182 he was #2. The guy spoke broken English and repeated that he was cleared to land, so the tower had to forcefully tell the guy he was not cleared to land, but...