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The dreaded Grumman nightmare plane has reared its ugly head again. The Narco Mk12D won't lock into the tray because someone (not me) buggered up the latch-key on the tray. I bought a replacement tray that is labeled "Narco Mk12D TSO" on the side rail. But, it does not look at all like the...

I was there Thursdsay through Sunday. Had my head down in the camera bag when the midair occured. Very sad time. Even though I only knew the pilots by their names and photos in the program, it was a tough afternoon for me. I love the air races. I'm sad that NCAR has left Reno. But, I look...

Anyone have one of these laying around their hangar they'd part with? Let me know what you got.

Remaining races cancelled!

Get your antenna and coax swept by an avionics tech that knows what that is and how to do it. The mostly likely reason for “weak and unreadable” is a high swr reading. And if you don’t get it fixed it’ll burn up your radio.

AWO changed their CTAF a couple of years ago. But, it seems like the Canadians that used 122.7 for their air-to-air just moved to the new CTAF. Its busy enough without listening to constant multiple reports of "...manuevering over THE farmer's field."

In the Navy, I spent quite a few days on the flight schedule as a "functional check flight" aircrewman. This involved reviewing the maintenance log books, long, detailed pre-flight inspections, and both ground and in-flight testing appropriate to the maintenance performed. For example, if an...

I got to move the airplane outside today and powered it up. I got the app connected to the TailBeacon no problem. Tailbeacon "status" in the app is shown "OK". But, no pressure altitude is shown on the app. I tried adjusting the sensitivity threshold up and down. It made no difference. So...

I was taught to report downwind and final as well. But since these days you're as likely as not to find yourself, on crosswind, spinner to spinner with someone who just reported "...on the 45...", it seems prudent to call each leg. I was also taught to fly the pattern as you were Ron. But...

Looks like I'm gonna get sucked into the TailBeacon issue with my friend's PA28. It has a GTX327 transponder and a Transcal SSD120-(30)N encoder. It took me awhile to understand what my friend was telling me, so I started by looking at the encoder. It works fine. But then he called the...

Ouch! I hope you washed that thing in Woolite about 1,000 times first! Maybe "should be". But in my experience, no one was ever willing to pay for em. It was hard enough just to get the annual allotment of 2 zoom bags each.

I wore Nomex flightsuits for years and just wore regular jeans and T-shirts underneath year round. Occasionally I'd wear cut-offs or board shorts if I was planning on going swimming at some point in the day. These days, I don't wear flightsuits. And, I'm still wearing jeans (or my favorite...

Yep. Get ready to shell out some AMUs for new data cards. But, before you purchase make sure you understand which ones you need for your application (its clear as mud if you've not yet deciphered it).

I'm not an expert on the topic. But, I would've thought whatever trauma center is in her EMS (the level I or II that she sees most often as part of her job) would have trauma doc buddies that would give her the gouge on how to legally work the system. The only downside is what the insurance...

This is pretty much my list. To all the curmudgeons who put "...don't ask if its still available...." in their ads, don't worry!

If you have any USB power banks inside the aircraft, they could also be the cause. They are notorious EMI emitters.

Here's another relevant article (Fukuyama on how the national forest service has gone from managing forest land to protecting property owners from wildfires) : https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/america-decay Incidentally, I was on the Navy Search & Rescue team that flew support...

I'll just leave this right here: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/09/wildfires-are-old-normal-for-pacific.html

I went to Reno for the first time in 2016. Although I had a box seat, I spent most of the time either watching the heat races while standing at the fence either inside the pit area, or over in the static display section. And I wandered the pits endlessly like a kid in a candy store. I gotta...

Get the pit pass. Totally worth it if you can only go on week days.