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This place is LOADED with tech wizzes, so thought I'd come here looking for some non-aviation help. I have a team that uses walkie talkies in the plant (and it is noisy). I need a way to dial into meetings on the shop floor remotely and communicate with the team. This is a series of...

Go to be relocating back to the US from overseas from June through end of the year. Will likely be living in Fort Myers, FL. I haven't flown anything but ultralights for last 10 years while living in Hong Kong but have 400 hrs SEL in 172, Mooney and Velocity aircraft. So crazy idea is as...

Just curious if anyone else finds the concept here as fascinating as I do. I love the redundancy and lack of moving parts. Vertical takeoff with rotation to forward wing supported / lower drag flight with no moving parts and fairly easily shrouded propellers seems a pretty winning combination...

All, I've been living in Asia for quite a while now (China, Hong Kong and Philippines). Part of the decision to move to Asia was selling my beloved Velocity and effectively giving up Gen Av except for an occasional flights with instructors in the US. I'm now at the point of looking for...

To me, this is absolutely terrifying. Maybe a little overwrought, but still ... If a CNN reporter can train to fly in 90 minutes, what will the skies of the near future look like. I don't think this single flyer will cause much disruption, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. What does...

Anyone have any good ideas why forest service would ban the big boys from dropping on fires? https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/GAO-Rejects-Big-Air-Tanker-Ban-229908-1.html I can come up with a few on my own but they don't hold water (pun intended) even to me. This just baffles me. I'm not...

Anyone own or have direct experience with a Searey? Wondering if the hull is really pretty tight. Can you leave it in the water a week at a time or is it land, pump on and out of the water. With the main gear mounted above the waterline, it looks like the only thru hull hole may be the tail...

Can anyone recommend a good 1-2 day interactive online Excel tutorial? I work with a lot of companies and I'm tired beyond my ability to explain of the garbage Excel files I am regularly sent ... all sort of randomly merged cells, hand entered values instead of referenced calculations, wildly...

I'm checked out and have been flying an "ultralight" in the Philippines. This is a 2 seat Quicksilver MXL. In the Philippines, this is considered an ultralight, so no PPSEL is required and the club just self-certifies its pilots. I have a PPSEL, but my medical is not current since I haven't...

Just made a major error. I purchased Flying Magazine through Apple in-app purchase. Now the app prompts me for login that has never been provided. I call Flying and they actually tell me they can't help me, they don't know anything about their own app, call Apple. Apple simply doesn't exist...

Looking for something and can't find it. I have a new iPad and want a keyboard/case that will also allow very easy landscape use. I travel constantly and use the iPad 2 ways. First, as a portable laptop for simple e-mail and web use. Second, for wasting time reading and playing games...

Lots of smart people on the board. Can someone possibly give me a reason that a company would charge MORE for a digital edition of their magazine? Kitplanes charges $16 for print magazine and $20 a year for their digital edition. It seems to me that their costs are reduced by removing the...

So summer has arrived. For those of us that don't / can't add AC to the plane, it is time to suffer on the ground and climb quickly. I've looked at the Arctic Cooler type ice boxes, but cooling the entire cabin seems a bit of a waste. I came across personal water cooled jackets and am just...

So, since being overseas, most of my posts have been just "shooting the BS" type of crap. Well, I finally have something on topic to share. I was giving a friend a ride to the local supermarket and he told me he was a bit short on time because he had to be at the Intercontinental in an hour...

The two places I check very regularly are PoA and AVweb. Just curious if there is much cross-over between the two. I know AVweb is pretty popular, but how often do you read?

Just read on AVweb that Air Charts is stopping production of their spiral bound map books. I am really going to miss them, what an excellent product. No matter what, I always had a current and legal set of charts. Easy enough to use even for LONG cross countries as I would tag and number each...

Just read a post by MAKG1 that matches up with much I've been told, but differs a bit from my VERY LIMITED IFR experience and I'd like to get some thoughts. MAKG1 - "In IMC, you use the artificial horizon and several supporting instruments instead of the real horizon, and you try to ignore...

Question for the instructors out there. I once had an instructor who insisted that "If you can't see the horizon over the nose of the aircraft, you are IFR". He would never allow the nose of the AC over the horizon and would immediately bark if it occured. During a long climb, I'll often...

After reading the story of the arrested glider pilot, I am completely and utterly disappointed by AOPA. I've threatened in the past to cancel my membership, but their complete failure to support a fellow pilot who was illegally and unconstitutionally abused by the system is the "straw that...

Okay, didn't want to hijack the other thread. All the discussion made me take a look. There must be something wrong with this plane because too good to be true sure seems to fit: http://www.trade-a-plane.com/detail/1618383.html www dot trade-a-plane dot com/detail/1618383 dot html < 300...