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  1. Ben Diss

    Rough River Kentucky Fly-in 2019 - April 26-28

    Mebee Sat morning. Mebee just drive. We'll see. I could haul more bourbon if I drive. Prolly the same door-to-door time.
  2. Ben Diss

    Rough River Kentucky Fly-in 2019 - April 26-28

    Let's see what the weather does tomorrow. Plane's out of annual. Allegedly I'll even have working brakes now, so I got that goin' for me.
  3. Ben Diss

    Rough River Kentucky Fly-in 2019 - April 26-28

    Back from Ground School. Sims are 3-4 week wait. Plane is in annual, but otherwise it's looking good. I'll wait until this weekend to worry about a room.
  4. Ben Diss

    Rough River Kentucky Fly-in 2019 - April 26-28

    Today I started ground school at Piedmont. I'll get home Apr 12 and then wait for a sim training date. Some guys are waiting 2-3 weeks between ground and sims, so I'm a solid maybe for this trip.
  5. Ben Diss

    Plane down here in Ohio.

    Tough weather at the time. Heavy snowfall.
  6. Ben Diss

    Let's hop in the time machine aviation nerds.

    Started with Commodore 128. Zilog Z80 and CPM. Next was 80286 I overclocked by soldering in a 8 MHz crystal oscillator. Played a lot of MS Flight Sim on that box.
  7. Ben Diss

    Intellicast T/U?

    IBM owns The Weather Channel which owns Weather Underground, Intellicast, and a bunch of others. Like most things that IBM buys they're adding a considerable amount of suck and taking out most of the awesome from those products.
  8. Ben Diss

    Cat ****. Smell. Ugh. Fix?

    I have a slightly damp basement. I run a humidifier down there all the time yet there is a slight damp odor. A friend suggested I get an ozone generator to cure the smell. I did. It worked. I got one way, way bigger than I needed. I ran it for one hour in my 1500 sq ft basement and now two...
  9. Ben Diss

    [N/A] HVAC Thermostat Issue

    What kind of thermostat? No battery in the thermostat?
  10. Ben Diss

    Rough River Kentucky Fly-in 2019 - April 26-28

    [blush] I'm gonna try and come, but I took a job flying for Piedmont. I'm sitting right now on a training delay and they project my class will start in late Feb, early March so it's pretty likley I'll be training while you guys are drinking bourbon and singing off-key without me.
  11. Ben Diss

    CMEL - 80% loss of performance when losing an engine

    I was referring to an FAA test. It's not supposed to be accurate.
  12. Ben Diss

    CMEL - 80% loss of performance when losing an engine

    I inserted a word to make it easier to accept when studying for the test. "80% loss of climb performance".
  13. Ben Diss

    Firewall forward coming along

    Super smart getting the dual mags. Looking good!
  14. Ben Diss

    Southeast Pre-Christmas Meet-up (Runway Cafe @ GMU) 12/15

    Oooh. That's a haul. Especially for a little fabric covered airplane in the winter. Maybe we'll have a warm spell!
  15. Ben Diss

    Spent shell casing with new pistol

    New York state used to require that all new guns purchased and registered in the state have the spent casing sent to the state. The current liberal, socialist governor ended the practice after it was determined that no crimes had ever been solved by registering the spent casings and the process...
  16. Ben Diss

    Kennedy tool boxes

    Tough to find parts. Kennedy is based in my home town and is actually still a going concern. I remember buying tool boxes from their scratch and dent store when I was a kid.
  17. Ben Diss

    Approach Pop Quiz.

    Were you on an IFR clearance and were you IMC?
  18. Ben Diss

    Eating a valve?

    Naa. Years ago.
  19. Ben Diss

    Eating a valve?

    Here's what it looks like. This came out of an IO-360 in an M20J. That little knob is the exhaust valve rolled up into a tube. High RPM and low MP kept the motor running and we made it to the airport.
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