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  1. BillTIZ

    Windows 10 Help

    Save your data to another drive, replace either the HDD or go to SSD. TRASH MS, go to Linux
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    Mooney nick or prop strike?

    and probably be on both tips at the same location
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    Flying with worn valve guide and/or worn rings?

    Were all of the parts accounted for to complete the ring? No missing metal down in the engine to cause other problems?
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    New ACS May 31, 2024

    Are there any NDB approaches left in the lower 48? Of course, not many airplanes have the proper receivers for NDB approaches.
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    Tall Vikings

    Interesting... when I was learning... it was... TVMDC.. True Virgins Make Dull Company... Of course, when I was learning... the "Apple Watch" was all Dick Tracy science fiction. Pocket Calculators? forgetaboutit For my military flying, I had "Speed Dividers", the front side of the E6B was used...
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    Using Old Logbook for Endorsements?

    Call me old school, all flights and endorsements are in a bound commercially available logbook(s). That is backed up by LogBookPro entries to make totaling easier. I also back up to a Spreadsheet and keep printed pages from the spreadsheet in a separate binder. Scanned pages of needed...
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    Becoming a DPE

    DPEs are in short supply, market rules of supply and demand apply. Also some years ago the FAA restricted how many check rides a DPE can complete in a day. I think the magic number is 2. Then consider "duty day" hours. Also consider the time it takes to complete an Instrument Check Ride, or any...
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    Using Old Logbook for Endorsements?

    When my "blank end of the book" pages get filled with endorsements, that does not happen often anymore, I just start working backwards into the normal "logging" pages until I run out of empty pages. Then buy a new book. If your instructor cannot follow the guidance in AC 61-65H and needs to have...
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    Another aircraft company sold to China...

    So you are forced to buy from their other companies that they do support. First Rule of Business, put your competitor out of business. Easiest way is to just buy them out.
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    [NA] Toyota Tundras

    I've owned a 2007 5.7L V8 Tundra since new, 2nd Gen, 220K miles, no issues, but I'm ready to replace it. The paint after 13 years in the Desert Southwest has taken a hit. I've not heard good things about the 3rd Gen Tundras with the V6 turbo. Sure they may have the power, but the software...
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    1980 TR182 Nose Wheel Shimmy

    Landing a little faster than normal in a C182, most likely the nose wheel touched first compounding the problem. Landing in a wind, especially a crosswind, full flaps don't help. Best landings in a crosswind with the C182 is about the 20 degree flap setting. From the POH "when landing in a...
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    Diamond aspires to be Boeing.

    Sorry, I had to laugh when the F0X5 article said there could be issues with decompression and blown out ear drums from losing a door at altitude. A DA40 is NOT pressurized to have any decompression issues. Never trust any news report.
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    Straight ahead....

    200ft AGL is not always the magic number. On high Density Altitude days, you may have barely cleared the trees at the end of the runway on climb out. At 200ft you may be a half mile or more from the end of the runway. I've done more than my fair share of training rope or tow failures at 200ft...
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    Gave an old timer a ride today

    I teach teenagers to fly motorless aircraft. They can solo at 14, but need to be 16 to fly with a motor. The fact that I am nearing the 1/2 century mark peaks their interest. Maybe we should listen to this old guy. Then they ask what I have flown, that really gets their attention.
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    Cfi training

    I paid a one-time fee to American Flyers for their online Instructor Refresher course 20yrs ago and have always used it. This weekend will be my first opportunity to actually attend a FIRC in person.
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    Retirement Gig

    Thanks Dave! I was a member of Las Vegas Valley Soaring Assoc in Nevada. As a club member, I donated a lot of my time instructing, towing, and filling club offices. Retired, moved to New England, donating my time to Greater Boston Soaring Association, instructing, towing, tow plane maintenance...
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    Conducting Flyovers for Compensation

    Minimum altitude rules per 14CFR 91.119(b) may apply. Anything less that that you would probably want a waiver from the local FSDO. Key is "open air assembly of persons", no quantity specified, very subjective by those enforcing the CFR.
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    A&P Schools in Fun Cities

    There was an A&P school in Las Vegas, NV, not sure if it is still active.
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    Which way to install motor mount bolts.

    Looking at the PA-25, from memory, the bolt heads were on the cabin side of the firewall and nuts forward. No space to put a torque wrench to the bolts inside the fuselage and manipulate it. Looking at the PA-25 Service Manual, it does not specify other than bolt size about fastening the engine...
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    Struggling with single engine commercial

    Never teach your wife or your daughter how to drive a standard "Stick shift" car... same for flying. Let someone else do it.
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