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I'll do it. I'm a professional book editor (albeit non-fiction).

VORs are almost always colocated with a COMM radio, which transmits, and those aren't excluded. But it's transmitting over a gigahertz...

Because that's what the reg says. They don't trust you to mess with autopilots or microwave stuff (DME, transponder).

The tail on the D-16 is made out of Navion horizontal stabilizer. All twin Navions started as singles and were modified by Temco or...

True. In fact while your options are quite limited, you could possibly fly IFR with just an ADF.

The real "flight following" hasn't existed in decades. That was a term used where a radio station (think Flight Service back when that...

The requirement for avionics is only that which is necessary for the route being flown. Lots of people fly with only one VOR (and no...

I think this is interminable.

Single weight aviation oils always used double the SAE weight numbers. For some reason, they didn't follow that standard on the multi...

Yeah, probably makes sense.

Oh, I hadn't realized it was the CDI he was replacing. I thought it was the receiver itself.

You don't need the A&P as long as you are the owner-pilot. Slide in avionics with the exception of DME, transponders, and DMEs are a...

At Oshkosh, we have a station for a crossing guard by the hangar cafe where we taxi airplanes across the road. One year one of our...

Or if the student already has an instrument rating, is current, and you do it in actual.

You can't do much instrument training as you can't put the student under the hood without a medical.