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I just posted my first and probably only YouTube video, thinking this information (up until now fairly obscure since only those who bought the wing skins got the video) will be ov value to a great many out there, particularly those interested in the KR series of aircraft. Dan goes into a lot...

While looking for something else I noticed Sporty's AirFacts Journal still has an article of mine they published some years back. Since this forum is "Aviation Mishaps", this incident is possibly unusual enough to be of interest in case anyone has some time to kill...

Mine was recalled almost as soonn as it was delivered. I didn't ask what the issue was (or maybe I forgot), but is it overwith? Are they shipping this unit? I'd ordered the AV-30 aong with it. Just putting an inquiry out there . . . anybody know? Yes, I can call the factory in the morning ...

Portable, so suitable for rental aircraft. Independent of aircraft's power. Self contained. Just, possibly, the thing to put in the cockpit/fuselage half an hour before departure when getting ready to fly a heat-soaked airplane that's been sitting on the ramp for two days since last flight...

Poor choice of titles. I realized later that LSA's are certificated aircraft, whether S-LSA's or E-LSA's. So, I guess one can't put one in an LSA - but I know little on this subject. There may be a way. Meanwhile, it's certainly usable on all the Experimentals out there. I recommend you...

Soon as I put my attention back on plane projects I'll be installing whatever complies the least expensively with the mandate. As for IN, I've been watching GDL-39's show up in droves on eBay, some of them going for as little as $300. Is there some reason people are ditching their GDL-39...

I just came across a NooElec ADS-B receiver I bought and then forgot I bought it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/NooElec-NESDR-Nano-2-Tiny-RTL-SDR-ADS-B-Receiver-w-Antenna-RTL2832U-R820T2/151900102481?epid=2256015416&hash=item235df39f51:g:1x0AAOSw7FRWXClw:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true It was buried...

In my commercial flying days I could pull into any appropriate airport in the event fuel was running short. Get gas, nobody except me leaves the plane, get back in the air. Flying from say, Bellingham to Ketchikan with just enough fuel to get there, I've read that landing in Canada can be a...

I've admired this little unit since it came out and it appears, like all things electronic, to just be getting better. It integrates perfectly with my KR-76A with encoder. It has wi-fi and bluetooth, som my question is whether it will display my transponder code I'm putting out on my 660...

Somebody came up with a design, Canadian if I'm not mistaken, with an extra big fuselage that would accomodate two people sleeping in the back plus supplies for trips out into the bush. I think it was tricycle gear and had a big engine and was about the size length and width of a C-210. It...

This fellow was really current with his plane and made a spectacular approach. Finding himself slow, he pushed throttles forward and immediately went into a 70° bank which caused him to hit the ground out of control. What is it about the MU-2 that can cause this? What's the lesson...

I've had a long-standing intention to fly down to Todos Santos to visit a friend who has property there. Something or other has gotten in the way of doing this trip until now but I'm currently firming up a plan to head down there. There's a lot to learn about eAPIS and other realities of flying...

The Bonanza break-up over Long Island has me wondering. If reports are correct that "hundreds" of pieces of the plane rained down over a large area of Long Island, anybody have any idea just how that could happen? We know of course from the OWT thread that V-tails come off at the slightest...

I was looking up Riley conversions just now and came across this really beautiful creation. There used to be a Dove sitting in the boneyard at VNY in the 70's, but I've never seen a Heron, much less one with the Riley conversion. What a treat.

I've read through the thread on ad blocking and Java Script and most of it is over my head and maybe my question has been answered and I'm just too thick to have understood it when it was in front of my face . . . but here goes: In the last month or so it seems like at least 75% of the sites I...

Please take a look at the attached picture and someone explain please the 40 over 21 in that white hashed section. Just what IS that white hashed section? Surely something to do with the approaches into Luke but can someone decipher this airspace for me? Thanks. I'm getting ready to fly over...

I think refusing a pilot license is clearly grounds for a retroactive 509 ride. ************************ Apr 6, 1927: William P. MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, received Pilot License No. 1, a private pilot license, from the Aeronautics Branch. MacCracken...

I'm going to be using a tablet in my small cockpit shortly and have two options. A floor mounted flexible stalk with a platform at the top upon which I can Velcro© the iPad Mini-sized tablet, or I can use a kneeboard. Can anyone recommend a tablet kneeboard they've found to be particularly...

The reason given for going to new software was that the old vbulletin software was "long in the tooth." I don't know just what that means, but I do know this new software has already confused me several times and does not at all seem to be an improvement over what we had. I haven't contributed...