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    WTB: Apollo/UPSAT/Garmin GX60

    I now have a "new to me" GX-60.
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    WTB: Apollo/UPSAT/Garmin GX60

    Want to buy a Garmin GX-60 in good condition with no display problems. Please provide information including condition and the latest modifications and software version from the stickers on the bottom of the unit. Please email (preferable) information through my profile or send a PM.
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    USAA Insurance -- Opinions? (N/A)

    I've had Auto coverage with USAA since 1963 and homeowner's since 1976. They have always been prompt, fair, and helpful when we had claims for either. My dad had coverage with them for many years before I did. My daughter has coverage with them too. I wouldn't even consider any other company.
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    Microphone Foam Socks

    http://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/av/headsetx_microphones.html or ask the manufacturer of your headset. They might send some free.
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    Am I full of crap?

    If you are with Blue Horizons Flying Club, there are 3 instructors listed. Your easiest choice (but perhaps not the best) is to talk to one of the other instructors. I think you would be better served to look for instruction elsewhere. You've already got a couple of suggestions. If they are...
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    FCC/Lightsquared Comments End Today July 30

    Comments to the FCC on Lightsquared's broadband proposal in the GPS spectrum end today. If you value GPS for air or terrestial navigation, I suggest you submit a comment. GPS World has simple instructions on how to comment at...
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    Fluorescent = Tach Strobe

    I purchased a model airplane tachometer from the local hobby shop for about $20. Seems to work fine and you just press the button to get the right number of blades. The readout matches the mechanical tach closely. It works in flight too.
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    Wow - are we desensitized?

    "Monday, the TSA explained the search and said it conformed to security protocol. The trouble, a TSA spokeswoman said, was a stroller. It was too big for the X-ray belt, so it got a hand-check with an explosive trace detector and when that set off an alarm agents searched the baby." I'm...
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    Air Duct Cleaning

    Make sure you know where your cats are BEFORE they leave! :hairraise:
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    Light switches disobey no-smoking sign

    The single rocker switches are pretty cheap even through Cessna - less than $5.00 if I remember correctly - but the same switches, non-aviation, are only about $1.50 each. The dual switches are more. I've taken the switches apart after failure and seen the problem. The contacts are bare...
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    return of deposit?

    I believe there is usually a "cooling-off/buyer's remorse" period (in real estate transactions anyway) of a couple of days during which the deposit is returned in full. Unfortunately, the agreement was oral so there was probably no written agreement The deposit was to hold the airplane...
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    what wil be the repercussions of this

    Is that the airport with a deteriorating runway?
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    Propellers for Idiots

    You mean one of these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-blade_propeller
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    Time for a new tach.

    You can get a model airplane tach on ebay for about $25 or probably at a local hobby store. The one I got on ebay is switchable for 2, 3 and 4 blade props. Works great - my overhauled tach was right on. 200 rpm off before. I used Century Instrument but you might want to call before you send it...
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    Portable O2 for 182

    I bought 2 "D" sized medical cylinders from an on-line medical supply company (shop around for prices), a medical regulator on-line from ebay, and the Aerox retrofit kit for medical regulators with dual connectors including 2 cannulas and flow meters. That is the entire system and it cost...
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    Another runaway airplane

    Wellington must have had a bad weekend. A PA22 burned on engine start. Destroyed. http://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/preliminary_data/events01/media/05_1821P.txt
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    Single/No pilot ops closer than thought?

    From India perhaps?
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    Aftermarket Laptop battery.

    Well, you could buy a new battery from dell or an oem supplier, then put Linux on it. Dell is putting Ubuntu Linux on its newer computers by request. It's free too if you download it from Ubuntu.com. You won't need an antivirus program either. Just be aware that while there are compatible...
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    Beginning a Bank-Free Life

    We've been with a local credit union since sometime in the '80s both for our personal and business accounts and I'll never look back. Great service! My credit union maintains their own portfolio of their VISA cards. Their policy is to NOT jack up your interest rates because you are late on a...
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