I’ve been encouraging my friends to get APRS trackers for their airplanes for awhile now. Some of them have even gotten their HAM licenses. Mark is a special case, as he has an AVMap mounted in his airplane, which means he could hook up a mobile radio and track airplanes in flight! So, he’s first […]
Read MoreWell, it’s a long time coming. Seriously. I was just looking back, and it’s been 4 YEARS since we flew with a nose pant. Hard to believe. We took that first flight with the nose gear pant on 8/24/10, and within a week (where we took 1 trip with pictures) had shattered it. We had noted a good speed increase, […]
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Another great Rough River is in the can. We stayed in a cabin again with Dave and Ali Nelson, which is always great. They are fun and easy going, and they’ve been going to RR forever, so they know everybody! The weather this year was awesome, with great fall temps – cool at night and […]
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Every fall our airport sponsors an event for the nearby retirement community. It’s a really nice deal where they bus between 100 and 150 senior citizens over, and they grill out and serve them in the big hangar while airport residents take anybody who wants to for rides. The airport picks up the fuel bill, […]
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Work has been eating my lunch lately, but I did get this year’s condition inspection over the last couple of weekends, as well as mounting my new GTN-650. Having the Approach Fast Stack really made that pretty straightforward, although there is a fair amount of setup to do in the GRT to get it fully […]
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