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  2. Posted

    I bid on one of the carts of spruce, thinking I'd keep whoever got it honest, but no one took the challenge.  They extended some items, so I got a few others as well to make the trip worth it.  I got a lot more spruce than it looked like in the picture, the 8ft bed of my truck is full!

    One of the things I got was a Matco MHMH6B wheel assembly, including the caliper and axle.  So if anyone needs one, I have one I can let go cheap!  If not, I'll have a project to use it on eventually, I'm sure.

     

    Mark

     

  5. Posted

    Never seen that:

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    That is because the website hasn't implemented all the hand holding (mostly warnings about cookies, etc) the EEA/EU requires in their GDPR regulations.  Cheaper and easier to block access then comply with regulations that 99.99% of their web traffic doesn't require.

    Mark

  6. Posted

    Nice. 5500 ft runway?  You should be able to do 2 or 3 touch and goes without ever having to make a turn! :)

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    Shouldn't that be an aligator in your area instead of a bear! ;)  Would be interesting to see the video of that.  Amazing the elevator doesn't looked damaged but I'm sure it is.  Thats where they say you never know what happens to your plane while it is parked.  Cheers Randy 

    Nice thing about alligators is they are low to the ground, they can't climb like that!  I found this on another forum, and the word there was they had a gun - in the airplane.  Neither of the guys volunteered to retrieve it.

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  9. Posted

    Heat?  Who needs heat???? Now if someone could come up with a light, cheap air conditioner, I'd jump on it in a second! :P  81 degrees (F) here right now, at noon on 11/9/2018.

    Mark

    Mark, here is a cheap and light air condition for you:
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    Fred,

    No doubt!  It is on my list when I finally get around to rebuilding my Avid.  I got my seaplane rating in a J-3, and having those top doors open was wonderful!

    Mark

     

  10. Posted

    Heat?  Who needs heat???? Now if someone could come up with a light, cheap air conditioner, I'd jump on it in a second! :P  81 degrees (F) here right now, at noon on 11/9/2018.

    Mark

  11. Posted

    I fly a Cherokee 235 and have had ADS-B in/out for about 5 years now.  I can tell you with absolute certainty that your Mark 1 eyeballs aren't nearly as good as you think they are.  I can also state with absolute certainty that another small airplane is invisible to the eye outside of 2nm in most conditions.  Occasionally when the conditions are perfect (clear air, light colored airplane below me with solid, dark ground below), I can find one at about 3nm.

    I know it has saved me from a close encounter at least once, which justifies the price for me.  It was a classic mid air setup, I was in my low wing cherokee, and a high wing took off from a small private airport ahead along my path.  He was slower, climbing directly in my flight path, completely invisible under the nose of my plane.  I watched it develop on my ADS-B in iPad, and when it became obvious we were going to get much too close, I deviated to the right.  I'm sure the other pilot never even knew I was around, since I was above and behind him, but gaining at about 30 knots.

    Mark

  12. Posted

    I guess I'll be the rebel .... I don't plan on doing anything to my avid for the adsb crap. It's a little tibe and fabric plane . We've all been flying without that crap so why buy something some of us will barely use. I'll jist stick to flying around like normal until they come down to a 16th of the value of my plane. I say let the big expensive planes have them and leave the little experomentals alone. Plus that crap looks to damn confusing . I would rather be flying and scanning then have a computer screen in my plane . That's just me and I'm sure there will be backlash .

    As long as you stay out of the airspace where it is required, there is nothing wrong with that.  If not, expect to become an example for the rest of the GA community.  I predict the FAA will have no mercy shortly after the deadline passes.

    Mark

     

  13. Posted

    Good Luck TJ - It's always a good day when you can get out the 'big boy toys'!

    Mark

     

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    Looks a lot like what I did, except I changed to an external reservoir and the shortest cylinders matco makes (4g or 4h), and made the cylinder connection right above the pivot point.  It gave me the 2.5x mechanical advantage Matco recommends, and went from barely able to hold the plane at idle (with the 'intensifier' kit in the old 5 cylinders), to holding it at full throtttle.  Avid Model C, 582, original Peery prop

    Mark

     

  17. Posted

    I vaguely remember this happening before, and it has something to do with the profile - it sets the date/time format based on the locale parameters your machine passes it when you first sign up - and some of them it didn't handle correctly.  I'll see if I can find any notes from that.  I found a way to fix it without getting too technical, but it was weird....

    Mark

     

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  19. Posted

    I almost had a wreck the other day.  I pulled up behind a 'squat' truck, and on the back window was a bumper sticker that said:

    'F@ck Hillary'

    Immediately in my head I heard Bill's voice say:

    'I wish you would, God knows I don't want to'.

    I laughed so hard I almost ran into the ditch....

     

     

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  20. Posted

    It's dangerous - I did my seaplane rating at Jack Browns in Winter Haven FL several years ago.  Then I bought a pair of Avid floats Jim Chuk had laying around. Still haven't put them on, but I do go fly a seaplane every year or so at Jones Brothers in Tavares FL

    Mark

     

  22. Posted · Edited by marksires

    Nope, you can't make your own ADSB-OUT, that is for ADSB-IN only, and those make your own kits work fine.  Still need a tablet and app to actually see anything though.  There are no approved portable devices for out either, and don't expect any.  The FAA's plan is eventually to use ADSB instead of radar to keep airplanes separated, so I wouldn't expect them to ever approve a portable device to keep our little planes separated from airliners with 200-300 voters/taxpayers.  There aren't any portable transponders, and ADS-B will be even more critical than the transponder in the long run.

    For ADSB-Out (the required part), the cheapest/easiest solution is the uavionics device that replaces your nav light and is a completely self contained unit with the WAAS GPS, transmitter, etc.  The only downside is you have to leave your nav lights on all the time, but since the replacement is LED, if you replace the other side with an LED, I don't really see that as a big issue.  It is just under $2k, and installation takes about 15 minutes.

    <edited - changed just $2k to just UNDER $2k - 2k is a lot of money for our planes!)

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  25. Posted

    You guys do know that our 100LL doesn't have lead in it because it saves the valves in our engines, it is there to mess with people's brain chemistry. All this time the government has had plausible deniability because everyone was looking in jet fuel for the psychotropic drugs when it's been in the little plane's fuel tanks all along.

    Actually the lead is there to raise the Octane to 100 and prevent detonation.  Once the valves and valve valve seats were hardened, the lead isn't doing much for the valves anymore.  Those running two strokes are wondering what the heck a valve is???