Recent content by cowman

So just to understand the system a bit here's the purpose of that. If you're flying IFR, you need to get a clearance from ATC before you enter the clouds. If you're departing an uncontrolled field you basically have 3 options. 1. If the airport has a relay for ATC you may be able to call by...

I usually carry a multi-tool. Probably use the pliers as often if not more than the knife.

I flew, in hindsight it felt like it took slightly longer than usual to acquire a signal after powering up but that might be my imagination, either way it's negligible. I didn't attempt any approaches, honestly I forgot all about the the whole electromagnetic storm and just had a nice VFR...

I’m wandering around with my wife and 5yo if you see us say hi.

We’re heading out shortly if anyone else is till going.

Tomorrow’s forecast is looking good. We’re still aiming to be there around 11.

The GI-275 - century autopilot interface is NOT plug and play despite what the marketing suggests, it requires an interface box that's not included or even available from Garmin. The shop that did mine attempted to build one... eventually with the help of POA we found Deklin makes a pre-built...

Sounds my last bloodwork... and by conventional wisdom my diet is terrible. I eat plenty of red meat, this time of year lots of burgers/hot dogs/steaks/pork chops/various smoked meats since it's grilling season. Not to mention fast food once or twice a week, lots of Chinese takeout, snacks...

Hard to see in the photos but the drivers side was significantly worse. I had to weld in new metal along the bottom edge just to have something to attach the new rocker panels to…. And there was rot going way up the rear corner of the cab… a piece of the old rocker is now welded in there but...

Here’s your motivation to go treat your rocker panels, fenders, and cab corners with some kind of corrosion inhibitor. This is a 2012 with less than 100,000 miles on it and we absolutely made an effort to run it through the car wash after use on salted roads.

I manage all IT related things for a small private school... my predecessor had a little over 100 ipads set up with one appleID for each class so 10-30 devices on an ID. Different teachers and other staff input their phone numbers as owning the ID at different times and of course apple censors...

I've played with AI image generation trying to generate characters for a book I'm endlessly working on. What I saw is it can generate images that look like stuff it's trained on but if you try to get it to do anything original it just breaks down. You get stuff that looks ridiculous...

Anyone interested in doing this on the 11th say around 11am?

I wouldn’t think the standard dish would work inside an aluminum aircraft body nor do I think mounting one externally would be a good idea. They have the roam version too, I don’t know much about how that one works. Maybe you could figure something out but I don’t think this is the intended...

So I've now been at the rough river every year. The first year I didn't really know anyone and it probably took me another couple cycles to match up most of the faces to their names/POA handles. I'm not someone who easily makes friends or socializes but I've always been welcome at these...