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My wife and I have volunteered to do an Avare booth (#68) at the free AOPA Fly-In at CMA (Camarillo, CA) this evening and tomorrow. Sadly, we have to drive rather than enjoy the spectacular flight from SBA, but at least the parking areas for cars (and for aircraft) are massive. You can add...

I fly with the free open source Avare app (yes I donated) on my cheapo old 1st gen Nexus 7 with backup copies on my two S4 phones. It's so handy, the GNS430 and an old handheld aviation GPS now serve as tertiary backups. Last year I bought a $10 "thumb drive" SDR (DVB-T for Euro TV) on Amazon...

I'd like to know what your requirements are for an aviation app. I'm a volunteer on the team developing the free Open Source ad-free Avare app for Android, and have been wondering what features are most important to pilots. This is obviously an unscientific inquiry, but maybe it will help us...

For what may be our last Big Adventure in our own plane, my wife and I are ramping up to leave KSBA within a week and fly across the South to FL. We'll probably take a week or so to get there (about 3/22/2013), and might stay a day or two with family near Melbourne, FL. As you can already tell...

I've been discussing with a pilot friend something I heard about. A highly skilled CFII repeatedly flew into icing in a C172 shooting approaches. Moderate icing at 3k'AGL, thawing at 1k'AGL. My friend says it's a great way to learn how an aircraft handles with ice and would do it for the...

There's a new free VFR GPS moving map Android app named Avare, and the development team is seeking pilots to try out the app and offer feedback. Avare is open-source, ad-free, and requires only two Permissions: GPS of course for the moving map feature; and SD card access so it can store...

I'm thinking about joining a discounted group buy of an Electroair Ignition System for our 172Q (stock 180hp 0360), now that the company has STCs for most 4-cylinder Lycomings. They have a long track record with non-certified aircraft, and auto racing before that. I'm wondering if anyone here...

Yesterday an IA who was cleaning/gapping the spark plugs in an 0360 told me it's important to take a bent-end pick and clean out the threads in the head. After doing that, he blows compressed air into the hole before re-installing each plug. He says any remaining debris is blown out by the...

Yes, it was reported as carb ice and not climate change. :) On the beach between Santa Barbara and Ventura yesterday a small taildragger landed after engine trouble that was reported as carb ice. Apologies if there's already a POA thread on this, but I didn't find one with the search link and...

I've been working on a W/B spreadsheet for my 172Q that will calculate CG aft limit for the gross weight it calculates from my loading inputs. I'd looked for something online, and after a few minutes of searching decided to do my own. The sheet I have so far needs to be validated, and I need...

I was catching up on the latest with the legal work to get RunwayFinder back online, and noted the developer's kind mention of VFRmap.com Though it's pale in comparison with RF, vfrmap is somewhat useful for VFR planning. I discovered it works on my Droid X smartphone too (see other thread).

I got a Motorola Droid X (aka DX) smartphone (v 2.2.1) just before leaving on a long x/c flight, and have been discovering some unexpected aviation uses for it. I found that by plugging it into the aux power (adapter included with purchase at Costco) and turning on GPS, it tracks pre-viewed...

We're contemplating a trip to Edmonton, to help my daughter with her new baby. We'd probably want to arrive there about Feb. 7 and stay for a month. I'm a 1k hour VFR x/c pilot (see my map below), we own the 1983 172Q (180hp 0360) based in Santa Barbara, and the coldest weather I've flown in was...

My 1983 C-172 has a RT-359A Transponder that's been acting funky lately. My panel includes an early model non-WAAS 430 and a Michel's for COMM2. I'd like to upgrade, but with limited cash and unlimited time (I love retirement!) I'd rather fly than buy. I'm pondering whether to try for repair...

I'd like to gather support for petitioning Google to provide a replacement for the RunwayFinder website that, along with several other great av sites, has just been killed by legal threats from a patent troll. In case you didn't know, RunwayFinder was a fabulous site for flight planning that...

A while back there was some mention of the FAA starting to require periodic renewal of aircraft registration, rather than the permanent one-time registration we used to have. Stated reason was to free up tail numbers of aircraft no longer flying (no comment). OK, so I have a 1983 172Q and don't...

I was talking with an expert pilot about the service ceiling of a 172M (if I recall correctly the POH number was 13.5k'), that I found was less than eager to climb above 9kMSL. My assertion was that it would be practically impossible to reach 13k at gross in that particular plane. Was I just...

I've searched old threads on this topic, and have seen the recent article in AOPA, and would like to get recommendations on anything new in the folding bike realm. We'll be adapting it to carry us both plus some backpacks, so we need one that can handle 350 pounds if possible. The frames seem to...

Having bought one in January I'm looking for other owners, pilots or mechanics familiar with the Cessna 172Q. We're planning to fly from SBA to OSH and then across Canada and possibly up to AK, then down the west coast (see our blog for details). I started the Thread titled Q to AirVenture...

Any 172Q going to AirVenture? Anyone flying, or know someone who's flying, a Cessna 172Q to Oshkosh? It's looking like we'll be going in our 1983 N66111, and I'd like to connect with someone who has a Q. We bought her in January, have sailed through first annual, and now have some niggling...