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What drives me nuts is there is an 80s 172 at one of the places I rent at with the rotating beacon bulb missing. The plane is in otherwise decent shape and has been through multiple 100 hours since the time I've been there, and yet they still haven't replaced it. It can't be a hard fix, but...

So I'm guessing it was just the disconnect tone? I don't know why it seemed so loud to me.

So I finally decided to pay the extra money and hop in a G1000 172 to see what all the fuss was about for the last decade. I gotta say, I may have to give the 1970s cessnas and pipers a rest for awhile as I was very impressed. It was a bit of information overload though, and I'm sure it'll take...

Yea why not just build a stratux? Built mine for $120ish and it has been working flawless.

Hell yea I do! Helps drown out my CFI too when he's complaining about me landing the wrong direction or w/e

They could cut their costs in half if they sent me the "JOIN NOW!" letters every month instead of every two weeks.

The way you framed each of them makes it sound like you already made the decision!

The worst CFI's I had were in helicopters CFI 1: 1st lesson of my life the CFI clenched the throttle on an R22 (prob nervous) and pegged the needle way outside of the red zone for about 15 seconds. An obvious obverspeed but went unreported for about a month, until during my PPL reading I...

That's what I'd prefer to do. Would they be thinking, why didn't he go to 1 of the 3 other uncontrolled fields right next to here?

Say my home airport is Class D. There are other uncontrolled airports in the local area, with an overlying class B. If I'm on just a basic VFR scenic flight, and lose my radio, which airport would be the best to return to? The AIM outlines the procedures to follow when entering Class D, but...

Unfortunately no, by the time it was off I was already towards the end of my time block. But as with everything, there's always tomorrow and already have a flight booked for then :D

Yea I'm just going off what a random passerby said. But as soon as I mentioned ELT going off he said "haha yea, we've been hearing that" etc. It was no surprise to him. And on top of THAT, there is a CAP plane on the field haha

Another follow up: I switched from Auto - Off - Auto - Off - Auto - Off and heard no difference in the siren. Right before I gave up to go home I checked one last time, and no more ELT noise. Strange; especially for someone saying its been happening for days, and it takes me to do that?

Well honestly, the best way to learn is for something like this to happen and so now I have some experience with troubleshooting. All I can ever recall from being taught was the first 5 minutes of every hour they are the test period and to monitor 121.5; which are two things I referenced. I...

That was the first thing I thought of but it was 615 or so when I first heard it. Just talked to a guy who said it's been going off for 3 days now.. wat

Going from auto to off made no difference but the fact I hear blips of it on ground control has me hesitant. The flight was just for fun to kill time tonight so it's no biggy. I'm the only one at the airport so I can't bum a hand held to zone in on it. I could prob start snooping in other...

No dice on the recycle. Looks like it's a no go