OK, so this is seriously cool. My buddy Mark pointed this out to me, and I think it’s great. I’d been looking at this Kenwood radio ever since I got my Ham license, but knowing that you can hook it up to an AvMa G5 and track other (aprs equipped) airplanes in flight is too cool for school. Since Mark will […]
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Today Dave started installing the headliner… For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis aute iure reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum […]
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After we painted the airplane, and I saw this style dataplate on my buddy Mark Riley’s airplane, I had to upgrade to it. It’s a custom Velocity data plate, engraved with our information! I’ve added another view where hopefully you can read the entries. We set our gross weight to 3,100 lbs, though we don’t […]
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Obsolete: We are currently running without an air filter as it restricted engine RPM. We’ve built the air filter box by making a male mold with some blue foam large enough to clear the filter media and flange out. The filter will have AL plates on both sides so we can clamp it air tight. The […]
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So I’ve had a little bit of trouble with these Panasonic batteries not having quite enough guts for some of the panel testing I do. So I decided to try a larger capacity battery, in the same class, but this one is a 7.2 amp hour version. This should give us pretty good capacity in […]
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So I’m a bit OCD when it comes to some things. There are some things that I’ve done to the hangar that are just for me. Sure they have some usefullness, but they just make it feel “professional” to me. To that end, I’ve labelled the field’s frequencies on both sides of the pilot’s lounge/shop […]
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