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    Oshkosh 2021 Notam - Airventure

    I've seen it used once so far, Sunday evening arrival 2019. I was doing the warbird arrival in a T-28, overhead Fond du Lac headed to Warbird Island expecting the usual right base to 36. But, listening to the 36 tower guy, all I heard was GA types headed up the railroad tracks to land 36. No...
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    How often does your GPS fail?

    Holy crap... man, I hope you just broke the code on my intermittent GNX 375 in my RV-8! I installed it last year, but it's always been glitchy in that it will randomly lose the GPS signal for 5-15 seconds, then reacquire. I've checked the antenna cable and swapped in a new known antenna, but the...
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    Martha Lunken has privileges revoked

    Not to defend the Feds, but, was this at an airshow with waivered airspace? If not, the Nanchang pilot goofed. During an airshow in waivered airspace, low passes are fine. At a non-waivered fly-in? Then a low pass could be seen by the Feds as a potential “careless and reckless” operation. Low...
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    ExpressJet Restarting Operations

    Nope, United is not restarting ExpressJet. ExpressJet is going to try to restart ExpressJet, United has nothing to do with it. Read the article you posted, it specifically states that UAL dumped ExpressJet. They’re trying to restart as an independent carrier.
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    Saving Money on Avgas and EAA Chapter 323, Sherman, TX

    Yep, Sherman is a fantastic cheap fuel stop, just a nice little airport. McKinney TKI? Man that place has grown, it’s not even recognizable from when I started flying lessons there in October, 1984. It’s good progress though!
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    Need to Find Out What Airline this Cap Belongs to.....

    Wow, really? But no, not really. Ryan Air is a bush outfit based in Alaska. Ryanair is a low fare airline based in Ireland. The hat is from now defunct Ryan International Airlines.
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    Need to Find Out What Airline this Cap Belongs to.....

    Yay! And yes, it's true; I'm an airline geek to actually recognize the Ryan logo...
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    Need to Find Out What Airline this Cap Belongs to.....

    Ryan International Airlines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_International_Airlines...
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    Retirement Thoughts: Boise Idaho Area?

    So he can make generic but rather ugly comments about people from certain locations... but me using a personal pronoun towards him is wrong. Sure dude, whatever.
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    Retirement Thoughts: Boise Idaho Area?

    Nope, I didn’t miss his point at all; his intense dislike for “outsiders” is on full display. I guess only the “proper” type of groupthink is allowed in Idaho? You perceived my post as personal attack? So, it’s okay for MtnMarcus to rip on people from California or Oregon, but I can’t yank on...
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    Retirement Thoughts: Boise Idaho Area?

    Just... wow. The ego and arrogance on display here just blows me away. You do realize that the US is a free country, right? As in, people can decide on their own where they may or may not want to live. The right wingers (I assume that includes you) will loudly trumpet "FREEDOM!!"... but if...
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    Professional holds

    Reminds me of a funny bit from back in the Stone Age, 30 years ago; I was in a C-310R hauling checks from Des Moines to Kansas City Downtown. MKC was fogged in as was fairly typical. Actually, the whole KC area was down... I had extra gas, so I’ll hold for a bit to see what the weather is gonna...
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    Airport name to use?

    To the guys saying “listen for a bit, then transmit”; this usually works, until you get a bunch of fast talking mushmouths where you can’t understand what they’re saying... I hear this All. The. Time. It drives me nuts. When transmitting the airport name, slow down and enunciate so we know where...
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    Show off your Plane!

    Johnson Creek in a Cessna 140?? Holy crap... I'm impressed!
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    Show off your Plane!

    So I'm a wee bit late to the thread here, but here's my "fleet". I say that because I have 1 and 1/4 airplanes... This one is all mine; an RV-8 built from a quickbuild kit. First flight was Nov 2006 and and currently have 1800+ hours in it. Panel was new last year; love the new Garmin stuff...
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    Houston’s west side: KIWS or KTME?

    If it’s TME or IWS, just flip a coin... both have great FBOs with easy access via ground/air. Don’t be intimidated by West Houston IWS airspace or obstacles; in/out is easy below 2000’ to stay clear of Class B and the pattern isn’t that busy except for a few trainers flying B-52 patterns. The...
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    A Milestone

    400, woo hoo!!! Keep at it man! For some guys, it does end... like airline pilots who just don't care anymore and grind it out. It's just a job and they don't care. Now me, I'm one of those weirdo airline dudes who still keeps a paper logbook; approaching 28,000 hours now and I gotta say I...
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    Any of you Experimental types comply with this

    This right here. It covers everything.
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    Libyan Dictator Muammar Ghaddafi's Presidential Airliner gathers dust at a French Airfield

    Because the "other" news site is sooo much better and more truthful? Please, spare me that drivel. That panel in the pic isn't a C-130, it appears to be a C-141... I wonder why they did that?
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    Brittain autopilot, how does it work?

    The King display doohickey is a KN-62 DME that’s remote channeled to either Nav 1 or 2. The switches and labeling for the A/P do seem kinda sketchy, but it does appear that the “vacuum - pull on” switch would turn on the A/P. I’m guessing the Nav 1/Nav 2 switch above it selects the appropriate...
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