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    Dead Battery : Best Options?

    Okay so this is the first time I've experienced a dead battery in my Cessna 150L. It has been sitting for a month at the airport because the airport was closed for runway resurfacing. Yesterday I went to fly it and the battery just didn't have enough juice to power the starter. I know, I...
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    Severe carb icing ... probably.

    So here's my tale from last weekend. It was 80 degrees on the surface, 60 at 6,500' which is the altitude I was cruising at in my C150, unseasonably warm, nice day. The ground-speed I was getting was only 70 kts, which was 20 knots less than my indicated airspeed. I decided I wanted to...
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    Transponder Issues

    I purchased a Cessna 150 last September and have been having intermittent issues with it's transponder. Sometimes the Mode-C would go out, other times it would drop off the radar altogether. It's a Narco AT50. I've been reading up on possible problems and the most common suggestion is to...
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    Could'a, Would'a, Should'a (Escaping Thermals)

    I had the bumpiest, most nauseating flight so far last Friday going from KRLD to 4S2 (Richland, WA to Hood River Or) in a 180HP C172. Friday was the start of a heat wave and the rapidly increasing temperature made for high density altitude, poor engine and flight performance (plus I was...
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    sun glare

    This weekend returning to my home field, 5 knot wind straight down runway 19. Approach went fine but just as I leveled off over the runway, waiting for her to settle onto it, stall horn doing its thing, the late afternoon sun combined with a less than spotless windshield I couldn't see a thing...
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    (one of) the problems with rental aircraft

    I am a fairly new pilot. I've earned my PPL a few months ago. Since then I've taken on some passengers; my dad, my girlfriend and her (adult) kids, and a few co-workers. I'm not a wealthy person by any stretch so I doubt I'll be purchasing my own plane any time soon (if ever) so for the moment...
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    looking for a decent website to find FBOs with food ($100 hamburgers)

    First off this is my first post on this site so if this has been covered already or if this is not the correct forum for this question I apologise. I recently earned my private pilot's licence a little over a month ago. I'd like to find a good website which shows me which FBOs have food, not...
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