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  1. brien23

    How long do your batteries last?

    I love Concorde RG25 Battery replacement, people throw them out at 2 to 3 years. I remove the plastic seal open each cell and add a little water only enough to cover the cell and suck out anything above that or it will bubble out and make a mess, recharge and put in my lawn mower and get another...
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    FAA Tells Pilots To Go Analogue As GNSS ‘Spoofing’ Incidents Increase

    Great now that people have spent $100k on GPS avionics upgrade time to move on to the next great thing, low cost INS for GA.
  3. brien23

    FAA Tells Pilots To Go Analogue As GNSS ‘Spoofing’ Incidents Increase

    It's not weapon systems only lots of truck drivers use it to disable their GPS tracking and others that want to disable any tracking device on their car or high value car if their going to steal it. Tracking devices are so common now, a cheap GPS jammer is required tool for the bad guy's. Seems...
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    FAA Tells Pilots To Go Analogue As GNSS ‘Spoofing’ Incidents Increase

    With so many weapons systems dependent on GPS it was only a mater of time till low cost disruption of the signals, weapon systems do spill over into the normal use. If this progresses like laser hitting GA aircraft has done this may end or make a lot of GA GPS unusable. Sure glad I saved my ADF.
  5. brien23

    Why do they say "Anyone can learn how to fly"?

    Sounds like a ATP in training.
  6. brien23

    How to buy a plane

    Some people have a knack for that and get real great deals, so what buying tips from those in the know can share with us sheep.
  7. brien23

    Strike Finder or ADF

    Strike finders are great at pointing area you don't want to go into also ADF at about 300kc do a good job at pointing at area you don't want to go into. You get a lot more info on the strike finder over just pointing at the area not to go into so with all the other information available would...
  8. brien23

    Amphib float landing gear

    More like a shopping cart and very labor intense also very heavy over straight floats. When you need fuel you not going to find a ladder at most FBO tall enough so you are on the side step and strut with a hose over you about 12' over the ground.
  9. brien23

    Am I being unreasonable?

    CFI and CFII with about 500hr know it all and feel they can handle everything, at about 1,000hr they think all the students are out to kill them at about 1500hr they are great instructors but then they fly off to the airlines and it starts again with a new CFI. If you are not comfortable with...
  10. brien23

    I’m calling the peak

    What value is the light twin in, I see the same twin Comanches and Cessna 337 over and over are they selling at what value?
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    Hail damage repair?

    Hail damage depends on how large the hail was, golf ball size or larger you done not much you can do, shredded fabric, trashed windshields and gaping holes in the skin are an expensive reality. Smaller size people do cover it up with bondo or other cover up and paint but it still has hail damage...
  12. brien23

    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    I don't think the NTSB wants to show the back side of what failed, I am sure Boeing would like that front photo to be the only one around. I want to see a picture of the phone from the plane that fell 16,000 feet they found and still works.
  13. brien23

    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    I like 8:15 am could be a long line.
  14. brien23

    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    I snap my seat belt kind of loose on a airliner, might just be a little tighter from now on.
  15. brien23

    Airlines Blame GA for Holiday Flight Delays

    Right now, union contracts, and not any kind of federal regulation, require two-person crews. The two unions representing those crew members have so far refused to agree to the change, at least on the major long-distance railroads, citing safety grounds.
  16. brien23

    Airlines Blame GA for Holiday Flight Delays

    If Boeing and Airbus are working on fully automated aircraft, it's not if but when it's going to happen. Now will the people fly on them or not, given the price of a ticket if the price is a lot cheaper people will chose the cheaper flight. If you are one that won't fly on one plan on the bus or...
  17. brien23

    Airlines Blame GA for Holiday Flight Delays

    So you can't fly a RC model airplane out of a approved site without some sort of ADS-B or remote ID tracking device but you can fly a full size GA aircraft without any tracking device in the same area in uncontrolled airspace?
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    Pilot Career Question

    Alaska has a way of weeding out those Pilots with less experience.
  19. brien23

    Buying a cheap plane for training

    Even the cheap aircraft are getting hard to find,if you go that way be aware it could cost you more than the best one now.
  20. brien23

    Fly by wire and EMP

    In July 1962, the US carried out the Starfish Prime test, exploding a 1.44 Mt (6.0 PJ) bomb 400 kilometres (250 mi; 1,300,000 ft) above the mid-Pacific Ocean. This demonstrated that the effects of a high-altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated. Starfish...
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