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With a transmitter that's perhaps not getting the full transmit power out of the antenna, its possible you found a hole in approach control's radio reception coverage. Its not unusual for one controller to be transmitting and receiving on a couple of different frequencies. And, due to...

And with that, I’ll just say, ‘peace out!’ -“spoiled” boomer

That’s kinda the point though. “Relatively”! I suspect general aviation (as well as some other fun things this late-boomer likes to do are going to get tougher to do(or already are) than can be justified. The extreme polarity of current social moods is not helping IMHO.

I'm imagining a 74" Hartzell blended airfoil "dive brake" going to fine pitch when theres no more oil pressure to operate the prop governor, compared to a the little wooden 52" prop on my Sonerai.

I'll throw this out there. Read this and see what you think: https://a.co/d/8fPIOj7

It automatically -->> [CUSTOM AMOUNT] "$0.00" [ENTER][OK]. I do it so often, its over and done before the person behind the register figures out what happened. There are a few I surely hope are even upset about it when they do figure it out.

Mineral spirits is cheaper than WD40. It won't attack the paint, and it won't leave a gooey film after you wipe it off. But, if you really want to spend some money, this is the stuff that works even better than mineral spirits: https://a.co/d/6gw56pN

The Nieuports replica kits with the larger rudders and 60hp VW1835 racked up quite a few flight hours. One of the Dawn Patrol squadrons actually went to France aboard a C-5 to take part in a Remembrance Day celebration a few years ago. One of their airplanes is hanging from the ceiling at...

When I first bought my little Sonerai, I regularly found myself about 4 miles east of Skagit regional at 4,000'MSL, with nobody else around. For those that don't know, that's just east of the Whidbey Island Class "C" up here in the liquid sunshine state. During the gray winter months, we can...

Do you load the approach while you’re headed to the iaf and check to see if the if the procedure turn is shown in gray and the procedure name appears in the flight plan page after the iaf? If I remember right, that’s how I was taught. Then we didn’t activate the approach till the atc clears us...

Thought about brewing my own beer. Went to a local brewer’s supply and read a couple of how to get started articles. And I finally decided I like drinking beer way more than I want to brew it. There’s so many really great local beers around, I can take a growler with me and get it filled at...

Its interesting listening to my 30-something millennial kids at this year's annual Thanksgiving potluck. The topic of discussion was how the younger generations doesn't work hard enough and expects to get tipped by their customers for just showing up to take their order and run their credit...

I found an article on GPS spoofing that says its a transmitter simply overpowers the relatively weak RF signal from the satellites with a fake GPS signal. So, its only effective within "line-of-sight". It sounds to me like its not really that different in general concept from spoofing VOR...

I didn't say they were gonna get any better.:( If you look at the article, it says that the GPS "spoofing" they're talking about is happening in a specific area in the middle east. Its like the spoofers' spoofing equipment has to be able to "see" the satellites to work. Then (I think)...

VOR never went away, never was going away. Check out the FAA's MON program. That being said, ground based VHF/UHF nav systems are even easier to spoof than GPS.

PA28 doors will "pop-open" quite nicely, in an emergency or otherwise. As far as the "Crash Axe" goes, I suspect that if it is properly secured (so as not to bash the pilot open before the pilot can bash anything else) then it will be of little use in the kind of scenario you describe.

If you've never owned a 2000 or newer mustang before, I'd suggest a good "test-drive" that includes doing something like taking the spouse for burgers or or a Costco run. The later model Mustangs, in order to preserve the nostalgic lean, long-nosed styling has some funky door frame geometry...

https://flyingeyesoptics.com/collections/aviators/products/kestrel-aviator-bifocal On a whim, I bought a pair of these at Reno this year. They work pretty good as sunglasses and readers. My old "Transistions" progressive lenses are OK as prescription glasses go. But, they're not great...

My wife's BMW 128i has the battery in the trunk. It uses four "run-flats" and has no spare tire. It costs a bazillion dollars to get the battery changed and all the computers reprogrammed after you do it. Stupid car. But, fun to drive!

Probably so many requirements/restrictions/commitments tied up in getting the thing into production, the location and mounting of the battery was probably not even thought about till last. I can just imagine some 3rd assistant to the 2nd chief design engineer, the day before pressing the big...