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    How cheap is your airplane

    Piper Navajo 180ktas / 32gph * 8 people = 45
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    A pony-tailed pilot, his 414, and 30 dogs

    Glad to see you got the 414 up there Ted! It sounded like it was almost a long term project initially. =)
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    MAP Gauge or Wastegate Controller?

    Not sure how long it's been around; nothing mentioned in logs that I noticed (it's a former Part 135 plane, I still need to claybar their sticker off...). Good call on the EGT, that's definitely something to check out.
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    MAP Gauge or Wastegate Controller?

    I just started discussing this with Ted via email, but was curious on other folks' take in here. I just bought a Navajo, and the only major squawk is that there's some inconsistencies with the manifold pressure reading. A slight adjustment can cause the indication to drop from say 33" to 28"...
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    Haven't seen this in a long time

    I recently bought a Navajo. I bought 130 gallons at KBUU today. It was awesome.
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    Avionics Shops near Chicago

    Anyone have experience with Lafayette Avionics or any other avionics shops in the chicago region? I'm looking for a panel reconfig and replacing current avionics with a garmin stack.
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    About to Become a 1st Time Airplane Owner

    Congrats on buying. Be prepared to spend double what you initially budget for initial fixes/work -- just seems to be how aircraft ownership goes.
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    Beech Baron down in VA

    That combined with the rapid descent plus 70kts decrease in speed: possible microburst? Pitch up, power, still fail to climb kind of thing.
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    Hauling Skydivers????

    Well there's your solution. Put him in roller blades and have him hold the tow hook. :D
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    Airplane agony

    When I bought my Apache, weather/schedule kept me on the ground for 3 months. It was horrible. That was before that big-ass blizzard and set of storms we had in ... 2011?
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    Swing/Day Traders

    First, good job opening with insults. Second, there is zero difference in computers and humans performing arbitrage between say the underlying a put and a call, or between exchanges, etc. The only difference there is speed. This is just another job being taken over by machine. You'll be...
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    Swing/Day Traders

    The main thing I'd say it adds is a stabilizing equilibrium. Large investor pump and dumps are having less of an impact than before. The investigation into the 2010 flash crash is showing that it was an individual capable of pushing mass volume versus the initial outcry that it was due to HFT...
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    Swing/Day Traders

    The same was said about using the telegraph when it was invented, and then the telephone, then the internet with many things in between (hell even shoe size was regulated at one point). Just like aviation: new technology scares those who don't understand it. When Foreflight came out on the iPad...
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    May Issue of THE MOONEY FLYER

    Yes, I too read them for the articles. Indeed.
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    Swing/Day Traders

    That's how I do it. I write software for HFT and I like to "gamble" with tech stocks for fun. I'm basically constantly at a scratch. I had one big day of luck where I bought some ouy of the money options for AMD at $5/contract and due to speculation the next day the underlying spiked up about...
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    Swing/Day Traders

    I'm an HFT, and apparently one of the best. Sending a PM.
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    Texas set to pass open carry ..

    Ahh come on, I can't possibly do concealed carry with a S&W 500. It's just too awesome to be hidden!
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    Radar downtown Chi town

    Not sure of the question; you mean tfr? It would probably qualify for the "any event with blah blah lots of people" I usually do my daily run from union up to buckingham (then further, but irrelevant) up jackson. It is crazy busy there at the moment. Almost chicago blues fest busy.
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    First Disorientation under the hood

    I did about 1.5 under the hood this morning. Mainly tracking/bracketing VORs and climbing/descending turns via cfii's vectors. Today was the first time I truly became disoriented. At some point during the bumpy morning I suddenly felt like we were in a hard bank to the right, despite the...
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    The most important reason to fly a twin?

    Yep. I've had one. Practicing feathering one, then couldn't get it to restart in the air. Suddenly it became a real OEI landing. No emergency. No fanfare. Just a safe landing and taxi back to the hangar. Started up just fine on the ground.
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