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    Heading to Miami for two weeks in May...

    Where would you rent a plane and what is fun to fly over? I really would like to fly to Key West.
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    Multi addon in 414A

    Everyone, I am going for my instrument check ride next week. I do plan to continue flying the 414. I have flow in one a couple of times. Regardless of how I get the multi, the assumption is that I will do 25 hours with someone in the right seat. I know of an instructor that will do the ME...
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    Multi addon in 414A

    Hello Everyone; My father-in-law is purchasing a 414A and said I could get my multi rating in it if I liked. A little about my experience: I have 125 hours tt. Of that 110 hours are in a 172 with the rest in a diamond da-40. Aside from the insurance issues, how feasible do you see this...
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    High altitude balloons

    Google does have an Aviation Facility at Moriarty, Just outside of Albuquerque.
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    What's the big square on the windshield?

    That would suck! It is pretty hard to get 80kts between to pieces of glass.
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    Have you been sued as a GA pilot?

    There are to many variables to answer this question accurately.
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    What I learned about using GA to go places

    Flying to Emporia, it is basically a wash. My wife is getting her Masters from Emporia State and has to go to campus a couple times a semester. It gives me an excuse to fly. If I happen to fly out of 3JC instead of MHK we may save ~15minutes. To Great Bend, I save at least 45 minutes...
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    What I learned about using GA to go places

    If you haven't ever flown to Minneapolis, you should do it sometime. The runway is 3900X20. It is an interesting little airport. I have flown to K75 but never to K82.
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    How far do you drive to fly?

    2 minutes by Car, 15 minutes walking.
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    What I learned about using GA to go places

    Most of our flights are > 300nm. We routinely fly from MHK/3JC to Carlsbad, NM. Flying saves us at least six hours of drive time. If we flew commercial from MHK we would end up flying to DFW, have an hour layover then on to either Midland or Roswell. From Midland it is a 3 hour drive, with...
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    FlightRadar24.com is looking for hosts for their equipment

    I actually have the raspberry pi in a waterproof case with a wifi adapter. The whole unit is on the roof connected to a 6v battery with a 45 watt solar panel. The antenna is an old wifi antenna I had from a past project. The antenna connects through the plastic case.
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    FlightRadar24.com is looking for hosts for their equipment

    I have a raspberry pi and the rtl dongle connected with Flightaware. I get an enterprise account of it. I find that to be plenty of compensation.
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    FlyteNow Sues FAA (Uber for pilots)

    There are services around like this for 135 operators. Typically it works as follows: XYZ charters has a customer that wants to go from LAX to SEA. They then post on this brokerage site that they have a one-way leg available from SEA back to LAX on whatever date, for a reduced price. I...
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    Electrical Failure - what could I have done better?

    While in my private training, my instructor had me taxi around the airport and fly the pattern using only light gun signals. It was a fun excercise.
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    Have you been sued as a GA pilot?

    Aopa did a series of articles rebuffing the claims in the USATODAY piece.
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    Sunday Morning Funny

    I tried to answer all tickets via Haiku... once. It proved I am not nearly as creative as I would like to think.
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    The Aviators T.V. show!

    I enjoyed the show but they are no longer shown on our local PBS.
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    Looking for Aircraft Maintenance Logging software

    This is a project I am actually currently working on. It will be web based. Send me a PM with your exact specs you are looking for and I will happily code them into the project. System is RoR with an iOS and Android app.
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    Student PPL Chicks

    What is the beer? shiner?
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