Aviation Forum / General / Aviation / June 2004

Can somebody please explain to me the technique to measure your plane's true
airspeed by flying in 3 or 4 different directions for a while and recording
GPS ground speed ?  Do you just fly the same amount of time each leg and
average the groundspeed readings ?

I'll be flying to Oshkosh from the Washington, DC area this year.  Two
years ago, I made a fuel stop at an airport that had a special deal
during the AirVenture event.  I think the airport was just south of
Chicago.  Does anyone know of a cheap place to refuel on the way to

Since the last time I had posted the question about the roughness between 1000
and 1700 RPM my wife had taken the plane on a cross country flight and claimed
things seemed worse. Sure enough the roughness seemed worse plus the idle
(below 1000 RPM) was no longer smooth. This time I ...

I'm planning on flying a 172 RG from San Diego to OSH for the big show at the end of July.
Any thoughts from others that have made the trip?
I'm IFR rated, but with the summer time T-Storms the trip is probably the same IFR or VFR.
Paul

I asking for responses from any who have converted from a 2-blade to 3 blade
prop on their plane. I not interested in any performance claims but just
specifically the issue of cockpit vibration.
The prop mfg's and STC rep's are aware of this issue but express their

All,
We had an open house at our local airport here in Minden, NV (MEV) today.
It turns out there is a flying club based here that I didn't even know
about!

Things that make you go 'hmm'.
The accepted wisdom is that aviation engines are tough, because they can
be run at full rated power for hours on end, and auto engines are
fragile, and must not be thrashed or they won't last very long. It was

I know some pannel mount GSP units have VOR capability (not sure if
its internal or interfaces with transiever).  Anyway people make
portable transceivers with VOR, and portable GPS units with VOR
databases but I have yet to see a GPS unit that does VOR. I would

Well, I finally figured out how to start a new thread in 'tin'! (I think..)
The starter gear on my Cherokee 180 is dragging ever so slightly on the back
of the ring gear on the flywheel. With the engine running, you can hear a
'ding ding ding' sound, which is from the starter gear ...

Well with my recent experience with Century Flight Systems I am
seriously considering replacing my 9 year old NSD 360A with an EHSI.
King has a nice one but they want top dollar What else is new. Sandel is
no loner producing theirs. They are replacing it with something with

This was spotted at the National Cherokee Fly-In last weekend:
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/CPA/Small%20Non-standard%20landing%20l
ight%20on%20Cherokee!%206-04.jpg
There's a matching one on the other strut, too.
How's it possible that this light is legal?

When the Montgomery-Ward 8-band radio I've had since I was a kid finally
gave up the ghost last month, we were left without Unicom playing in our
hotel lobby.
Since we are an aviation-theme, fly-in hotel, this was unacceptable -- we

Quonset State (RI) airport (OQU) has class D airspace and is just
south of Providence (PVD), which has class C airspace.
The northern arc of the Class D airspace isn't charted with a
dashed blue line, so the best I can do is assume that this

I'm still getting [image] from CBAV Nexrad instead of a real image.  Anybody
else having this problem?  (I've been having it for at least a month or so now)
Jose

For a while,I had a very squishy right brake on my C172A with
Clevelands.
it started when I had pulled the caliper for a pad-replacement, and I
saw a lot of hydraulic fluid, half-congealed, oozing from the caliper,