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I was wandering around my archives and came across what I think is a fascinating audio. It's a 30-minute-long recording of KOSH ATC from August 1, 1974, starting at the conclusion of the airshow. The traffic was out-of-hand and the controller, on the fly, split the frequencies between runways...

The KY196 comm in the Cessna is on its last legs, so we're gonna replace both it and the KN53 with a new navcom...Garmin to match the GTN650. I should know the answer to this, but I don't... Will our current KI-209 nav/ils indicator 'talk' to Garmin 'stuff' or are their protocols exclusive...

A question posed to the amazing diversity of this forum.... About 10 years ago we built a super-tight ICF house (tight to the point we have to crack a window or the clothes dryer isn't able to suck enough air out of the house to dry). We have a HRV of course, and have been running it on low to...

Question for you small engine guys. What would you suggest as a break-in procedure for a new 2kw generator? Manufacturer advice is sadly lacking...as in 'break in the engine with the included 10w30 before switching to synthetic". My thought is to fill the thing up, start it up, and attach a...

Note the title is fat-fingered....should be KY196...never mind, found how edit the title. Whew! Comm 2 is dying (not transmitting)...probably looking for a drop-in replacement for a KY196 (28v). I see KY96A, KY196, KY196A and other number-jumbles offered used. Could someone into avionics...

Headed for Montana within the next couple weeks. Will base out of Ennis for a few days, doing the touristy thing. Buddy we're meeting there has a daughter who is a guide in Yellowstone, so it should be a cool trip. We'll be in the R182 (non-turbo, but only 2 bodies), and thinking of running...

Wow! Been on the internet pretty much since DARPA cut it loose, and this is a first for me! Those who have been around for awhile know I'm not a real confrontational sort of guy. I am however a believer in freedom of speech (and yup, I know it's their site to do what they want with), so I...

Woohoo....50 years since my first solo! At 11 hours into it, in a Cherokee 140. Coincidentally, our Citabria also has 50 years on the hobbs....If it quits raining, we'll go do it again today :) How many on the board are at 50+? Jim

Anybody used their coupons? From their website, it looks like...pick the pharmacy with the lowest 'GoodRx' coupon price, have the prescription sent there, show them the coupon you download, and voila, save major $$s. So what's the catch/profit motive? Does it work? Thanks! Jim edit...and...

So...it's probably just me being obstreperous... My sister gave me an old (7plus) iphone she didn't need any more. I've previously been an android kinda guy other than a couple ipads for FF. So....I loaded my icloud account onto it, and been playing. Figured out how to move accounts...

Have any of you got experience with both the r/w G1000 and the 'standard' G1000 in, for example, the 172 included in XP? We've done some ad hoc (and unpaid of course) training for friends who have 'new-to-them' r/w GTN units, using the RXP after-market units in our sim. Of course these are...

What's the biggest headwind you big airplane guys have seen? My wife saw 174K on the nose @ FL380 coming up the East coast yesterday... Jim

We live on a hill across the runway from the FBO @ KBJJ. Sitting on the back porch yesterday afternoon, paying almost no attention as the EMS guys departed for a run. Heard a strange noise and looked up in time to see a huge cloud of dust. The guys had started to depart over a construction...

OK...so I did my googlefu, and it seems that regular white, rubber-bandy face masks are useful only to contain the spread of germs out thru the mask. In N95, the '95' apparently comes from the 'certification' that they will stop 95% of INcoming germs thru the mask. Question for the medical...

Anybody used something like this? Proposed usage would be for controlling knobs and switches on a 50" tv for a sim. Never heard of such a thing 'til I Google-foo'ed it. First thought is it would be hard on the tv screen, but honestly no clue. What say you IT geeks...

Starter issues on the R182 (spinning but not engaging), so immediately thought ‘battery’. Checked the logs, and the Concorde battery was 9 years old. Anyone else have one go that long? Follow-up....did a drain/charge cycle on it with a fancy computerized ($1800) charging unit, and the thing...

A buddy gave me a couple old MacBook Pro A1150's, in perfect working order. I can barely spell iThing, although fairly fluent in DOS, Win, and Unix/Linux. My bud can't remember the admin passwords on the units. which is somewhat limiting, of course. I would like to blow the hard drive away...

The Liberty Air Museums' Ford Tri-Motor is at KBJJ thru Sunday, part of the EAA tour, giving rides. Cool thing is our Wayne County Fair is in full swing, and the rides are using the fair grounds for turns-about-a-point during the excursion. Harkens back to when the Tri was new! Can't think of...

I've been manufacturing some switch panels for a project out of thin aluminum. Square and rectangular holes got to be a PITA, so I borrowed a hand nibbler. The one I borrowed is an 'original' Adel (a familiar name...think clamps) hand nibbler that my mech has had forever. This unit is only...

A new user on the X-Plane sim forum posted this over-under view to youtube.com. To record the flight for XP11, he used an app developed by Austin Meyer...developer of XPlane....called Xavion. First I heard of it, but it's piqued my interest. Thought you folks might find the vid of interest...