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    Engineers and MacGyvers needed to help disabled flyer

    Or cheaper would be to add locking casters to the transmission jack. Add platform. Add railing. done.
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    Engineers and MacGyvers needed to help disabled flyer

    I would get a Powered wheel chair scooter for the base. Remove chair and replace with a motorcycle lift from harbor freight. Or smaller same idea would be the transmission jack. Replace jack foot pump with 12v actuator... think gate opener.
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    What you don't want to find at 11,500'

    We were working on the plane and the A&P asked what kind of wasp that was that just landed. "That is an arsehole wasp... all wasps are arsehole wasps"
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    End of night VFR coming?

    As a VFR pilot there are some times when the sun is out you should not fly. Sometimes when the sun is not out, you should not fly, some times you can fly. Risk Mangement
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    Bleeding brakes

    Large oil can with tubing seems to work pretty well also...
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    Voltage Regulator or Alternator issue?

    check your belt tension also
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    Pros, Cons, and Tips for Renting Out a Plane

    I think you will find partnering for 10% is way better than renting for 10%. Renting puts you in a different position as an owner.
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    Annual Dilemma & Some Irony

    https://www.sigtronics.com/_pdf/air_pdf/air_intercom_pdf/SPA-400_KMA24_Inst.pdf
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    Best Portable ADS-B for FltPlanGo

    stratux
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    Annual Dilemma & Some Irony

    Intercoms have to have a failure mode so the pilot can still talk and listen even if they don't have power. Sounds like the intercom and DME don't have power... or a ground... and are not powering up. Are they on the same circuit? Check that circuit first. The NDB will have an audio feed to...
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    Annual Dilemma & Some Irony

    Can you further explain "no longer working"? Use words like. Does not power up. Comes on but does not do the functions intended. I feel like tech support asking if the green light on the lower left hand corner of the monitor. four paragraphs of an emotional post with bunch of emotional...
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    Commercial airline security after 9/11

    So let's say a plane in the USA does get taken over. What next? When 9/11 happened the only plan the FAA had was to deal with incoming threats, not deal with friendly's that become hostile. ATC could not order up fighters. A call, to someone and then maybe to SC in Omaha. Or a couple calls in...
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    Commercial airline security after 9/11

    No. reference the guy in LA that ran to the TSA. Shot the TSA Agent. If he wanted to he could have run to a boarding airline. with the cockpit door open and hijacked the airline off the ground. Security protocol was put into place to prevent in air hijacking. Security Theater is what it is...
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    Lifter Failure

    Were any of the valve guides coked up? then it would be metallurgy of the lifters.
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    Mogas STC - Ethanol Removal

    It would be easier to just set up a cracker unit in your back yard and buy some oil to put into it. Then you can sell the other refined products and make money on the deal. so easy a kid can do it.
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    NA Space travel basics

    So if I launch an Estes rocket from surface it goes X up. If I launch it from 17,000 feet does it go up more?
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    What caused this Cessna 310b to crash at my local airport?

    There are more constants to airplane accidents: An aircraft is involved, There is usually a pilot, Sometimes there is a passenger, there are sometimes an engine or two, there are wings, There are flight controls, There are engine controls.
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    Cessna 182A starter current draw

    What is the max the battery can produce - the loss of the cable and 2 solinoids
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    What caused this Cessna 310b to crash at my local airport?

    The joy of him quoting me will be how he is going to explain taking a large mythical furry creature as one of his sources....
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    What caused this Cessna 310b to crash at my local airport?

    If you can't answer the basic questions then you have nothing to go on. Guess we will all be waiting on the NTSB.
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