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  1. flyingron

    Inside hangar homes

    Here's pictures of my hangar house: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzFxZ1
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    Navigating to a DME via Garmin when Enroute

    Well, in its defense, while I have loved my GNS480 since it was installed in 2005 or so, the thing is now over 20 years old. It's mate the MX20 has pretty much been useless for a while if you have weather (it keeps running out of memory and crashing). It was the first WAAS aviation GPS...
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    Absolutely crazy Bo fuel tanks

    Navions by default have an ON-OFF fuel selector. Pretty uncommon for low-wing singles. This is because the wing tanks drain into a small header tank in the fuselage and then to the engine. The sump drain is sticking out of that tank (along with a safety wired plug that I guess you can use...
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    Navigating to a DME via Garmin when Enroute

    I seem to recall something about them running out of memory for the database and dumping some stations. By the way, you can mount the CF card for the GNS480 in a card reader on your PC and copy the database file over to the simulator if you want to have a later database in the sim.
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    Continental GO-300 Engine Cylinder #2 not starting

    Check the idle mixture. Might be so lean that this cylinder just isn't getting enough to fire. SImilarly, an intake leak could cause the same thing.
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    Exiting and Re-entering ADIZ Procedure

    It's not a customs thing. It's a NORAD thing.
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    Absolutely crazy Bo fuel tanks

    My IO-550 which is a bear to start when heat soaked on the ground, will retire just fine after you run a tank is run dry. The problem with the design when you put in these aftermarket tanks is how involved the fuel selector ends up being. Even the Navion which only has a "BOTH" position for...
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    Exiting and Re-entering ADIZ Procedure

    You have to have a DVFR/IFR plan for both transitions and the reentry needs to be reported to ATC (they have a reporting obligation to NORAD).
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    Could Boeing sell Jeppesen?

    For a second there, I thought the subject line said "Can Boeing spell 'Jeppesen'?"
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    data cards

    They are different.
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    Could Boeing sell Jeppesen?

    Boeing kind of has the inverse Midas touch, they ruin everything they touch. They bought up a bunch of defense guys as well (Autometric and the like). I don't know if having Textron buy us was any better. Boeing completely hosed up the "Future Image Architecture" which essentially was a...
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    Yellow Tags

    Most of my "yellow tags" are just pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 white paper these days.
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    Navigating to a DME via Garmin when Enroute

    If I'm understanding things correctly, push DIRECT and then the DB key and then select where you want to go.
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    Missing Registration for Deceased

    Others have addressed what the estate law issues are. As ar as the FAA, while the aircraft registry people are (perhaps rightfully) sticklers for details, I've found that they do answer correspondence so you can certainly ask them exactly what they want to see to change the registration...
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    Is Broken at 1300 considered VFR?

    Some guy in a jet made a low pass over an airstrip. (This was before the Trevor Jacob nonsense). The claim was he had no intent to land and came within 500 feet of the people on the strip. I think the one I'm remembering was this one...
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    172N EPs: Master vs Radio vs Avionics power switch

    Radio master = Avionics Power Switch. Apparently the guy who wrote the POH and the guy who screened the panel labels weren't synced up.
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    Eviation redesigned Alice

    Well, not quite. The project was launched in 1952 and the first test flight of the 707-120 took place in December of 1957. It was certficied in September of 1958.
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    Instrument training…

    That's the problem with redundent systems. If you don't have any indication (or fail to notice it) that one of the redundant items fails, you don't know until they both fail. Learned this when I ran a large statewide educational network system. Even our dual ignitions we test them from...
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