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My iPad running ForeFlight gives an audio warning through the PMA 450 if the GDL 51 bluetooth disconnects.

Definitely watch the density altitude although it is getting better now than in the summer. Many days saw DA of 10 k !!! We already had the first snowstorm of the season although the past few weeks have been sunny and warm. Also, watch the winds aloft. They can make for a rough ride as you...

I live in "The Springs" and this morning as I left KFLY to fly over the mountains to Alamosa I could barely see the front range after takeoff and that is about 15 miles!! The reported vis was 10 (and still is) and I believed that !!! It was significantly different from the usual 70 to 80 miles...

I bought my 1958 Vespa (marketed by Sears Allstate) in 1965. It is a 2-stroke, 125 cc, 3 speed machine. Top speed about 50...I don't recommend that though!!! A great "airport" runabout although it is street legal, licensed and insured. Electrical system is all magneto so no battery to worry...

Excellent travelogue! I travel much the same route every year from Colorado Springs to Oregon and spend a week in Logan at USU on the way back east so I am very familiar with the Logan Canyon and easterly departures out of the Cache Valley. Your next trip out here will be much more relaxed I...

Check this web site: https://avcams.faa.gov/ FAA web cams for Alaska and Colorado mountain passes as well as third party web cams from Canada.

Also a non-commercial flying year for me, first time in I don't know how many decades. But my luggage has never been lost BECAUSE I NEVER CHECK BAGS!! I learned a long time ago that short connections, canceled flights, etc. require me to take all my stuff with me and I travel light for that...

All I can say is that it's a good thing it won't fit in my hangar ;)

No, sorry.

Backups are still prudent...hence my choice of dual G5s where the HSI can revert to an attitude indicator if necessary and I maintain my KX-155 with a separate CDI indicator for backup com and nav. The G5s are driven by a GNS-530W. My GPSMAP 396 provides backup GPS (separate GPS antenna) and...

Nice explanations, Wayne! Thanks!

Several years ago (pre-G5) I bought a Sandia Quattro 340A for my Arrow. Unit failed within a few hours (pitch would slowly change with turns). Sandia replaced it and same effect. Third one also failed. The tech I worked with at Sandia was very helpful in sending replacements but after the...

Perhaps the sound levels of those sources that do NOT silence the music are too low to trigger the Bose music silencing action. You might call Bose and ask if there is a threshold adjust for the silencing function.

The Homestake Mine in Lead is now the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), one of the world's premier research facility for nuclear and sub-atomic particle physics! SURF is the deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark...

Wait!! mid 50's Caddie in the background???

Ham radio and restoring my 1959 Vespa scooter.

Wow! I had not heard of those! Must have lived a sheltered life even being a "ham" radio operator for 59 years!!! SO I just followed your link and ordered a kit :)

If you have already made the swap I would be interested in any "gotcha's" you might find. I looked into doing that swap but found that the 540 is not totally "plug compatible" with the GNS 530W. In my installation the Flight Stream 210 (flight plan to and from the 530W plus weather and traffic...

Thanks all for the inputs. Seems logical that the bottom one would work better in the air "looking" down while the top would work better on the ground "looking" horizontally or up since most control towers have their antennas on the roof. I will be having an upgrade to my autopilot in a few...

I haven't had much luck with the "static cling" films.