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It's been a few years, but I used to love flying all over the Bay Area whenever I was out that way. I think there was a restaurant you could walk to right from the Half Moon bay airport. Although I might be thinking of Friday harbor.

If it was N7409Y, flightaware doesn't show an IFR flight plan. I was a little north east of there at about the time of the crash and there was definitely some severe weather moving through the area.

They just have to issue the correct clearance: "A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower noted: “American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadalupe exit off...

BSME here, I spent the first 10 years of my career in a dark room behind two large CRT's that were attached to a DEC PDP-10 (ancient mainframe computer) designing transfer cases. I was running manual FEA analysis by hand on the side. We had a model shop, but only Union guys were allowed to...

The joke has always been that Chicago Tracon's radios don't receive VFR. if you don't say VFR, then they don't know to ignore you. But again to be fair there is a culture change happening, and I know some of the controllers will talk to a VFR plane now.

When I visited the Chicago Tracon a few years ago, they gave us a written list of do's and don'ts. One of the do's was: "First call for VFR services should be, “Chicago approach, callsign with request”." I know different controllers at different locations do things differently, but that was...

Unless I am picking up an IFR clearance, I generally call: Chicago Approach Nxxxx with request. I either get either Nxxx state your request, or after they have handled a stream of planes, say some think like aircraft calling with request say again. To me it is short, gets their attention, lets...

I saw Maple Bacon Donuts on one of the food shows. Everything is better with bacon.

Tap House Grill around the Chicago have a deep fried bacon dish that is pretty good. I am also a low carb guy, but I make an exception when I am there.

I have done it a couple of times over the years, but it is definitely the exception for me. If the run up area is icy, the brakes won't hold, so you kind of have to do it on the roll. I have also done it in line on the way out of a fly-in so as not to impede the flow. This is in a plane I know...

I don't know. (This is where I start to feel old - it's a quote from an old Monty Python movie)

African or European?

Have you tried the Bulleit Rye? I think it is even better than the Bulleit Bourbon. Not all of the distilleries buy white liquor on the market. Makers and a number of the others start out with raw grains. MGP in Indiana is one that mass produces. Bulleit Bourbon is made at Four Roses...

Having converted from Scotch to Bourbon myself, I prefer ryes, I think the flavor profile tends to be closer. Makers and Woodford are both great bourbons. Personally I find them both a bit on the sweet side, so they tend not to be my go to drink. Although I will if that is all the place I am...

Good one! I haven't heard a Russian reversal joke in a long time.

A few years ago I moved my paper logs to Safelog, and decided to go back and enter all of my old flights in. It took a while, but it was a fun trip down memory lane. As I was doing it, I started looking to see what happened to the planes I flew. The first one, a 1983 Warrior, N4328D, was lost in...

Sounds good. Have a safe flight!

Here is what I received back from Appareo support. I suggested that they post this info somewhere on their website. Here is what was included with the Firmware update to 2.0. added AHRS Gyro Initialization Configuration Support (setting in FFM). -> added functionality to update the...

I have been thinking the same thing. I used a small local bank for years, they got bought out a few times, until it ended up being part of BoA. With my luck, I would switch and the new bank would be assimilated back into BoA.

It appears that Appareo has two apps that they offer. One is called StratusUpdater, which allows you to update the Stratus firmware. The other is called Stratus Horizons. Which displays the AHRS data.