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I have used the EDO brand with 3000 hour life (metal vanes) and have never had a vacuum failure. I believe the Sigma Tek bought out EDO but still sell that model. Get those for the higher reliability.

I have one of the Harbor Freight panhead compressors in my hangar. Cheap and slow to build up pressure but good enough for my needs. My IA was able to use it for my compression tests. I also keep one of those Harbor portable tanks that I can loan to other pilots if they need to air up their...

CSO Beech has a lot of avionics manuals and may have service manuals as well. Check there: https://www.csobeech.com/

Yes! I knew a guy that had his cell phone laying in his seat and then ran into a mountain with his instructor one night. He survived but the CFI passed away shortly after the crash. He said that he couldn't find his cell phone so had to wait several hours before a search was started and they...

Load them into your laptop. That should read read CDs as well. Then, convert them to audio files and copy to a USB. If your laptop does not have a DVD reader, you can get one with a USB cable and plug into the laptop. Those are reasonable.

I am trying to set up APRS from the plane using a Beofeng radio, a TNC3 with bluetooth, and APRSdroid on a Samsung tablet. This will give you a map of all the ham operators around you and you can communicate via APRS/SMS messaging. It is supposed to give you email send capability as well...

You want to download this program called FILE KILL. It works with a DOS command but prevents files from being undeleted. You can also do a dfrag on the drive and that should prevent any files from being undeleted. https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/file_kill.html

When I was a student pilot with 6 hours in my logbook, I ran across a nice Cessna 152 for sale at a reasonable price. My decision was whether I should continue to rent knowing that I would need at least 40 hours of flight time to get my PPL or should I purchase the Cessna and put it in a...

A temporary fix is to get a battery disconnect switch which goes on the battery and you turn a knob to reconnect the battery before use. I did that once on an old Corvette that did the same thing. I never trust battery tests done by anyone except me. Was it a load test or did they just look...

The Ryzen 7 chip should work fine but you may have to do some configuration in your BIOS configuration before it will. That's what I did. There are some great Youtube videos telling you to configure your computer so that it will work.

I have noticed one glitch: my shortcuts to my Office 2010 applications keep dissapearing.

Well, I did some tests CAT 6 vs. CAT 8 with Comcast Cable and did not see a lot of difference. Before was 119 download and 6 upload. After was 120 download and 6 upload.

FreeNAS is being fazed out and replaced with TrueNAS. It is stll free. I agree that it is an awesome product.

I was always told to use the available funds whenever you can. Anything you leave goes to your wife and her "young buck" boyfriend to spend.

My audio panel has bluetooth and it can connect to multiple devices simultaneously. That may be an option. I have my Tour 360 XM radio, Foreflight, and phone all connected via bluetooth.

I have a white kerosene heater that I fire up occasionally. That generates a lot of heat.

What about my Freeflight ADS-B receiver?

I put Medico locks on my Warrior in the late 80's. I did the installation myself and it was not that difficult to do. I do not recall how I did the sign-off. Mine have lasted forever. I got mine after discovering that my key also worked with my Instructor's Arrow.

If the battery was seriously discharged, I would test it for any degradation.

I put an automatic rate increase into the lease using county's recommended rent increase rates. Has worked well so far.