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The airplane has been sitting in a reconstruction phase for over 18 months. THe VSI has gone TU, reading 5000' down just sitting there. I'm sure the AI and the rest of the steam instruments are about as happy as the VSI. I've got an elderly 182A. I'm not all that shot up about stuff that...

OK, so I have A&P/IA after my name. That doesn't automatically make me any smarter than somebody that has done this successfully. And please, don't nag me for stupidity. I feel stupid enough. January '19 (that would be over a year and a half ago) I tucked the baby blue 182A into the hangar...

I've used google, gone to the usual sources for offshore (alibaba, aliexpress, and all the rest) and have come up dry. A "12 volt" solar panel has to be above 15 volts with a light load to let the MPP charger work its magic. THe problem is that none of the suppliers seem willing to share what...

I'm looking to replace my Acuwrong POS weather station with something a little better. Something that doesn't read 108F when the good mercury thermometer in the same place reads 88F. Anyway, I can find tons of them that talk to your wireless network and then an app to use your smart iDevice...

https://www.eaatogether.org/live/forums/6174892582001 Jim

I've been invited by EAA to give a "virtual forum" during "Oshkosh Week". We'll see how that shakes out. More here when I get the information. Jim :cheers:

Just because we have a 760 channel radio in the airplane does NOT mean that we are licensed/legal to use all of them. Try chatting on 121.5 some day and see how long THAT lasts. Or go to San Diego and pass the time of day on 118.3 and see what kind of trouble that gets you into. There are...

I'm getting reasonably good internet (6 down, 1.5 up) in the lab, but inside the house the wife is only getting 3 down and 1 up. There is consternation in the family that she can't watch her Roku without it continually buffering in the middle of the movie. Unhappy wife, unhappy life. Here is...

How about a Saturday chat (30 May 2020). It is going to be rain, hate, and discontent here on Saturday, so for me it is a perfect time. How about the normal 2 pm Pacific? Same digital login: To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/skq-ynmu-huk Anybody got any...

Communications Specialists (Orange, CA) had AOR (Japan) private label an aircraft band handheld called the TR-720. Nice little unit in its day (1980s). Nicad battery pack(s - 2) have loong since gone to the great nicad heaven. I asked this question about 18 months ago and have chased down a...

How about a Saturday chat (20 June 2020). It is going to be in the low 90s here on Saturday, so for me it is a perfect time NOT to be working outside. How about the normal 2 pm Pacific? Same digital login: To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/skq-ynmu-huk Anybody...

I don't particularly like Skype -- it is convenient for some easy stuff, but I haven't used it in a year or so. Now every time I boot it up, it breaks my internet connection and I have to reset my adapter to log back on. Boot Skype up and it kicks me off again. I'm a far piece out into the...

I apologize right up front for posting a lawnmower question in an aviation group. Please forgive me. I can't read the oil level on my lawnmower because it is so thin it just barely registers on the dipstick. Is there some sort of dye that I can use to just bring the oil back to visible...

Can you just imagine to keep a car on the road you had to have a full house engine leakdown compression test, ignition timing, and every openable cubbyhole on the body opened up and an inspection inside for rust? Every year? Yeah, I know. You can't pull an airplane off to the side of the road...

I've been using Distance Learning for my college classes for about thirty years. Back in the dark ages of chat rooms to today's Skype, Zoom, and a dozen different ways of delivering the information. And guess what? My ONLINE students do better than my classroom students. I've got a few...

I'm getting ready to do my next Kitplanes article on getting the hangar off-grid and am looking around for a good source for 12 volt moderately high amp-hour units. I'll be charging with a Harbor Freight 100 watt solar panel, so 8 amps or so at full sun. I don't want to do one-off sources...

A fellow passed away with no relatives who are pilots. They have an ancient 150 that they asked me to do an annual on so that they could sell it and distribute the proceeds according to the will. No problem. But in the back of the hangar there are a couple of O-200 engines. Nobody seems to...

OK, somebody hijacked my real facebook page and images and made a phony page. I've done everything I can think to do, chased my tail around and around the suggested facebook instructions and I can't get that sucker taken down. Other than dynamite does anybody have a way of taking a phony page...

RST Engineering has reacquired the status of being able to provide the Appareo ESG ADSB units as well as the peripherals. As always, RST intends to provide the best value and the lowest price for any avionics that we have in our inventory. We are featuring discounted pricing for our...

It is kind of funny, after two years of selling ADSB units to be asking for a recommendation, but I can't pry any sort of answer out of my former supplier. Friend with an elderly Cherokee wants recommendations for an economy ADSB out only. What is the current state of affairs? THanks, Jim