Aviation Forum / General / Aviation / July 2004

Here's a story that is being broadcast on Channel 4 tonight in Pittsburgh...
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3597520/detail.html.  How many
times must we go through this, anyway?
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Garmin sent out a letter to their dealers saying that when they upgrade the
430/530 boxes with WAAS that the new operating system will be incompatible
with WSI, a weather package introduced at Oshkosh.
This is a little different than what Tim Casey told AVweb. He merely claimed

Been trying to access their web site, but no success.
CPA mag has it as www.texasskyways.com
Is this correct?

Anyone have any input on the cost of a paint job for a Cherokee 140,
or where is a good place to go for one?  I'd say anywhere from North
Carolina to Maine, or as far west as Ohio would be the area the owner
could travel.  He is based in NJ.

    Hey all... my Cherokee 180 is down for annual, and the A&P/IA found an AD on
the coil on one of the mags.  They're both S4LN (one -200, one -204), so they don't
have the impulse coupling AD, but the -200 has one on the coil.  They've both got only
300 hours on them since ...

Okay, this question is just about curiosity and the remote possibility
of an interesting DIY project. I'm an EE, so have the background do
understand (but working in the computer field, may not have the recent
experience to do so. ;)

How many times have you aborted your sel flight for equipment reasons. How many
times before engine start, before take off?
(In 3000 hours) I was on the takeoff roll and aborted: once because the
airspeed wouldn't come off the peg, another because the fuel pressure (Mooney,

Maybe you can help me and my daughter solve this math problem.
An airplane flies between two cities that are 700 miles apart, traveleing
with a wind of 25 mi/h when going, and traveling against it when returning .
The trip out takes 15 minutes less time than the return flight.  What ...

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Since september last year, I've gained over 240 hrs of flight
instruction experience. I now have about 650 total hours, but only 22
hours of multi.
My lease runs up in September, and I am thinking of moving somewhere

   Fatal plane crash devastates 2 families
Sunday was a beautiful day for a fathers-and-sons flight over the
rolling hills of Chester County.
With friends visiting from his hometown of Manchester, England,

Before you purchase a used radio, besure you check the FCC list.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/aviation/badlst.html

Wednesday 1800
The "Terror in the Skies" woman is going to be on NPR in a few minutes.

I just ran some quick numbers the other night. If I consider all the
trips I've taken in the last couple of years the Mooney is clearly
less expensive than the fares I grabbed off iflyswa.com and yahoo.com.
Of course, the math is a bit hard since SWA doesn't fly into remote