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My 1964 Mooney has a factory installed ARC Nav-o-matic 300 autopilot. It was working properly 5 years ago when I bought the plane, but only in warm weather. This unit has a dedicated gyro behind the baggage compartment for roll and yaw control and I figured the grease in those bearings had...

This morning I posted a reply to sport pilot training questions. For some reason that thread has not been updated on thread list has been updated and when you look it up it shows 19 replies but my reply is number 20. It looks like maybe you have a glitch there

I am working on a presentation to convince the FAA NWS to embrace 7-Day VFR weather planning. I want the AWC to use existing NWS Graphical Weather data already available and apply that data to the AWC Graphical Forecast tool for Aviation platform to extend the time frame out to 7 days. I...

I own a 1964 Mooney Super21 that has an OEM ARC/Cessna Nav-O-Matic 300 autopilot. It has been working but I noticed it did not work in cold temperatures. When I started having the same problems with my AI and DG I concluded the grease or oil in the instruments was getting old, so I pulled both...

Yesterday, July 5th, a storm moved eastward across the Ohio Valley and the East coast. It crossed Michigan starting after midnight and as it blew eastward a flght window opened up about 2PM for me to fly south to Toledo and then east to Culpeper VA as the day wore on. I was flying in behind the...

Does anyone know how to build and set up one of these AOE Glide slope visal aids? I haven't been able to find any technical information on them. Thanks in advance.

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What is V-end? I have a book that I refer to occasionally called "Flying The Edge, Flight at the Threshold of Optimum Performance" by Capt. Brian McAllister. The book is very good, but for me, most of the meat in this book is in chapters 4, 5 and 6, where he discusses STOL operations, STOL...

I noticed an AOPA article about aircraft laser strikes being on the rise, even though flight time was down in 2020. The article said there were 7398 reported laser strikes last year. That seems like a lot. Can a laser strike cause temporary blindness? How would you handle that in the air...

In 2013 I wrote an article for Air Facts Journal about using online tools for 7-Day VFR XC Weather Planning. The article is still online at https://airfactsjournal.com/2013/05/7-day-vfr-cross-country-weather-planning/ All of the tools in the article still work so I did a series of short...

Hello POA, I had an unusual occurrence on my last XC flight and thought I'd ask if anyone has seen this happen before. I make a few trips each year 375 NM in my 64 Mooney Super21. This last time on my return trip the AI stopped working about an hour into the flight. It showed about a 10...

Years ago I wrote an article called Think Like a Pilot! It is included here for your reference. I came to believe it would be a great basis for a flying game. Back in the 1960s we were introduced to a game called Yacht Race. It is a game of sailing a racing strategy that took place on a map...

When I was about 8 or10 years old we owned and lived on a working farm. At that time my mother would take us to the library in town about every 2 weeks and she encouraged us to read. I really didn't like to read that much and would rather spend time outside on the farm and in the woods. A lot...

I have been using my '64 Moodey Super 21 to travel between Culpeper VA CJR and Dexter MI 2E8 several times last summer. Because 2E8 is 2100 ft grass with displaced thresholds and has a down slope on RWY 6 in the center third of the runway, it has me working on my short field technique quite a...