Was hoping for a little imc today to do some ifr “keeping current” flying. My home airport’s ceiling is low ifr this morning, below any approach they have for the return. I wished too hard?
Hey. Don’t you fly a Piper…. https://www.wunderground.com/articl...iper-snow-ice-wind-forecast-midwest-northeast
So for this chart cycle, updating over USB instead of WiFi worked. Last time, it downloaded via USB but did not install for some strange reason. Instead of the 55 minutes it took over WiFi, the cablemodem->router->ethernet->computer->USB->Aera660 connection only took 13 minutes. Much better but still a ways off from the theoretically ideal 1.5 minutes, probably due to Garmin using a less than optimal USB and/or flash memory implementation.
Lots of bad weather the south and southeast. We sat in the closet for a while last night at 1:30am. Luckily it wasn’t a tornado.
I just took a look at F Flight map for the weather. TS, IFR, ICE, Turb High, Turb Low - check. The only thing missing is the Locus Swarm warning.
When I went to Oregon for my RV-14 transition training, the weather wasn't particularly great. I brought up the MyRadar map and took a screenshot because it had a symbol I didn't know. I had to look it up, but let's see if anyone here knows what that red circle off the coast means. Hint: Not a swarm of locusts, although they can't have been far behind.
Hey @kaiser ......halfsies?? Seems a little overpriced if you ask me. But what do I know. https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/220784565/1981-piper-seneca-iii-piston-twin-aircraft
While I have no problem with this on principal, I'm not paying 300k for a twin with 1 1/2 run out engines. Also, will you be relocating to KDPA or 06C?
This one is easy. Buy a spare engine and spend the next year overhauling it until you hit TBO on engine 1. Swap it and overhaul the next engine and have a spare until it hits TBO. Barely any down time. Just a little capital tied up.
Once more, my Stratux (that I bought used from another guy in our club) futzed out right after take off. I was trying to be "smart" and spend less than getting a Stratus 3. I wasn't that smart it turns out. I just ordered a Stratus 3 from Sporty's. Painful? Yep. But then again, this hobby has never been in the same universe with "financially smart".
What is the symbol in the lower left hand corner, bottom row 3rd column? Looks like a sun over three lines shaded in pink low ifr color.
Ok, weird question. I was a teen in the 90s and have never driven a car without fuel injection. However, like many of you, I fly airplanes with carburators and learn to use mixture. Why wasn't a mixture control needed for older cars? Did they have to worry about spark plug fouling? Obviously cars don't drive at tens of thousands of feet, but wouldn't they need a different fuel/air ratio in Los Angeles than they would in, say, Denver?
Carbs in cars didn’t have to deal with drastic changes in altitude as much as planes. And as I remember car carbs were fairly sophisticated, especially after the early 70s to meet emissions and fuel economy. Can’t tell you if the relatively fewer cars in Denver had different jetting.
