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    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    I wonder if anyone has found the door yet? They were (mostly) over land when everything went pear shaped.
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    Help me fill some space for a flight sim

    Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. My final configuration that I ordered: 1. AMD ryzen 7 CPU 2. Geforce 4070 GPU 3. 2T SSD 4. 2T HDD 5. 32Gb RAM And, an on-sale 32" Acer curved monitor from costco (not as fancy as the 49" shown above, but should do mostly) With all of this, should I...
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    Help me fill some space for a flight sim

    good question: the affordable redbird physics suck. I didnt want to spend $10k+ for a system (unless you have a better suggestion?). Mostly i want to practice approaches and flow. I will save my money and use that to fly a real plane every 10 days or so. Also, I live in MN: a place where...
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    Help me fill some space for a flight sim

    these are great replies! It's also reassuring to know than min-spec machines do just fine. I think i will be going with an IBM type computer after looking at all the pros/cons. Plus, then I can use the same computer for the condor glider sim. Any HD size recommendations? I am tempted to go...
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    Help me fill some space for a flight sim

    My wife is giving me 1/2 a work table (the other 1/2 is for her cricut Machine). I tend to be an apple person, but I’m open to PC as well. My goal is to run xplane-12 to practice IFR. Here’s what I have so far (from outdated computer):
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    Hail To The Chief

    older interview with Mr. Whittaker, but i think it highlights who he is and how he thinks: https://aviationnewstalk.com/podcast/291-faa-administrator-nominee-mike-whitaker-interview/
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    City of Portage trying to close AIrport C47

    They voted to revisit the issue in January. I'm sure the people who were in favor of keeping it open will remember to come to the meeting in January. After all, January in WI is such a hospitable time of year. In all seriousness, anyone showing up to that meeting ought to bring pictures of...
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    No clouds - for the love of G_d - - - GO FLYING

    17 landings later...I followed your advice by having a good time in my club's pawnee towplane. It was a really nice day at KSYN today.
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    LSA reality check

    Have you looked at the velocity if you are looking at homebuilt? When I spoke with them at Airventure, I got the impression that all the "important" stuff was built by them (wing roots, major attachment points, etc). That would lower my concerns that I would become the next john denver...
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    Garmin GDL-50 question

    What I meant by that is: are you depending on ADS-b from other planes, or your own plane's ADS-b? If your own plane is broadcasting just the 1090ES mhz signal ( like what's in the uAvionix tailBeaconX ), then you wont get weather. If, on the other hand, your own plane is also broadcasting...
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    Garmin GDL-50 question

    GDL-50 uses bluetooth. It's much less taxing on the batteries of the receiving devices (like an Ipad or iphone). I friend of mine recently bought the sentry, but i think it still uses wifi
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    Garmin GDL-50 question

    PIREP on the GDL50: 1) really reliable signals- much better than my stratux 2) doesn’t drain my battery b/c using Bluetooth 3) very short battery life, so have to keep it plugged in all the time (I’m using panel usb power) 4) sticky back needs to be (carefully) wiped down with wet cloth every...
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    Garmin GDL-50 question

    How are you getting your ads-b data? I’m getting the weather just fine, but I only fly planes that have both ads-b frequencies broadcasting, and that is what my garmin is picking up. some more trivia on ads-b: https://txtav.com/en/journey/articles/articles/adsb-out-explained
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    Books that would have/would have changed your aviation experience

    Contact Flying by Jim Dulin - even with several hundred hours of experience, I learned a lot of useful tricks about landing that have improved my consistency and accuracy - the techniques described have worked for me in gliders, cessnas, pipers, tailwheel aircraft and cirrus aircraft link...
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    What's going on with these clouds?

    That would be my take, since you said the humidity was very low (at least by MN standards...we are hovering around 50-70% most summer days). Again: i'm not a meteorologist, so I could be wrong.
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    What's going on with these clouds?

    Looks like it was a great day to do some cloud surfing with a glider plane. The person who referenced the sheppard air link was probably intending to point you toward pages 42-49, where several factors around cloud formation are involved to produce what you saw on the video. You have an...
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    KWVI Watsonville MId Air, Multiple Fatalities

    Ive been cutoff by powered aircraft while in the pattern and flying my glider. So, for some people, it is (sadly) ambiguous. At my glider port, we are told to fly at 800 AGL for gliders, but i still try to fly 1000AGL because it gives me a cushion where i can put away my dive brakes and...
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    Talk me out of a Cherokee 160

    I am in a flying club with a pa28 140, 180 and a 200r. The 140 is slow but it flies beautifully. I can usually lean it out around 6-7 gph. I would recommend that you consider a club and/or partnership if you want your "own plane." A well-run club can be a great experience and wont require...
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    Travelling Salesman problem- airport passport programs.

    Perhaps you could have your class start with ND. I have heard of several pilots who were able to to complete landing at all the airports in 1 week. Since there are fewer airports in ND, the starting point could be one airport that most people would enter the state in order to fly to all the...
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    Travelling Salesman problem- airport passport programs.

    These are examples of the passport programs: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/aviationeducation/aviationpassport/passport.html https://sdpilots.com/fly_sd.php https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/travel/air/pilot-info/flywi.aspx https://www.flywashington.org/ Older article about many passport...
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