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After another apparent in-flight breakup Friday, the FAA issued a Safety Awareness Information Bulletin "strongly recommending" that all Zodiac 601XL and 650 aircraft be grounded until changes to be described in a forthcoming AMD safety alert are applied. AMD issued the alert yesterday...

I finally gave a real flight lesson yesterday. It wasn't as scary as I thought it'd be. There's a young lady who built a Zodiac two years ago. She hasn't been able to fly it yet for two reasons: it hasn't finished phase I testing, and she hasn't been able to get signed off to solo it because...

I've now listed my airplane on eBay. Check it out, and spread the word.

So, who got to fly neat airplanes? I got two: Ted's Aztec. Yes, it flies like a truck. Not too bad once you learn to make a control input and give it a little time to work before doing something more. I even made a passable landing at KFLP in it with only a little help. Greg's 195...

My Zodiac has a GNS430W and a Garmin GI106 indicator, connected via the Approach Pro-G wiring system. Recently, the glideslope needle hs gotten intermittent: it stays dead center, even right as the 430 is powered up and on the self-test. I can enter maintenance mode and show the problem...

...because a CFI ticket is a separate certificate. One result fo the fiasco surrounding the NTSB's recommendation that the Zodiac fleet be grounded was that my original pilot examiner backed out on me. I'd located one near Janesville, WI, and today the weather cooperated enough that I could go...

I got signed off to go take the CFI-SP checkride today. My instructor was really positive I'd do well. I hope he's right; I'll find out in a week or so (I think). I created myself an IACRA account, and went to fill in the application for the certificate. I encountered a bug: it wouldn't let...

We got to arguing what ADFs were really good for on the chat line...so a poll seems in order. BTW, you can vote for more than one option...

When I saw this, I decided the airplane needed to wait a bit before I took it flying today...

I just submitted this letter to AVweb's editor: Aviation Consumer and AOPA Pilot both seem to be answering some amount of belief that an LSA can't be a cross-country airplane. I don't understand what's the big deal, myself. Planning a long VFR cross-country trip is the same whether the...

Here's a commercial my uncle Ken did for The Hartford's AARP member program... Lesson of the day: Don't count us old farts out. :nono: :rofl:

Anyone else typo logbook entries on the computer routinely? I keep typing "ouch & goes", for some reason...

Whew. It feels like I spend the entire weekend in my airplane. Saturday morning, I was sitting around the home office wondering what I was going to do with myself. I'd originally planned an animal rescue flight, but forecast bad weather had cancelled the mission, with a possible reschedule to...

I went up to Mankato today to do my spin endorsement. I didn't finish it. First, the instructor and I spent a little bit of time discussing what spins are, how airplanes get into them, how pilots get airplanes out of them, and how to avoid them in the first place. While we were talking, I got...

I need a recommendation for a Cisco router for a project. Don't need anything current; the cheaper the better, as long as it runs real IOS (so a HOWTO will work for it and anything nicer someone might be able to come up with). It doesn't have to be a 2500 series, or even rackmount; an...

I was out at KFRM this afternoon, planning to enjoy the gorgeous clear sky and warmer-than-it-has-been temperatures to get some more practice flying in. While I was there, a guy from the FAA drove up to make his monthly check on the VOR/DME's batteries. We talked for a while, and then he drove...

My O-200 doesn't have an oil cooler. I haven't been able to get the oil temperature above 140 F since it got cold around here a few months ago, and I'm getting nervous about not boiling the condensation out of the oil. When I first got the airplane, I spoke to a guy who owns a Zodiac north of...

I'll be hosting a midnight showing of TRON this Saturday night, November 15, at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis. Come on out.

This one's on LiveJournal, but I'll import it into a thread here (suitably modified, of course). 1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two. 2. Post a reasonably-sized picture of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something...

I fly, and talk about aviation, to get away from politics. With the recent discussion in Hangar Talk showing that that's not a no-politics zone, are there any forums on this site that are guaranteed politics-free? As it is, I'm going to have to drop Hangar Talk.