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This could be a fun trip down memory lane My first EFB foray was with a Sony E-Reader that I bought specifically to use a product called Reader Plates. It was freaking amazing. After years of paying exorbitant prices for Jepp plates that took untold hours of filing and updating giant leather binders, having all of my approach plates on one little E-Ink device was unbelievable. I really preferred the Jepp plates to NOS until I could get them on my E-Reader. But once I had them there, I dropped Jepp like a bad habit. https://web.archive.org/web/20080906234849/http://www.readerplates.com/plates/description

I used FltPlan Go for many years, primarily because of the price, but I finally got tired of its instability. The app would crash at very inconvenient times, and went through update after update without fixing the crash problems. Had the same thing happen on multiple Android tablets and an iPad. I still use FltPlan as my primary software for flight planning, and I’m happy that plans transfer to GP pretty easily. But I have to wonder how long Garmin plans to keep FltPlan Go around. I suspect they will kill the product and come out with a GP Lite version at some point that’s free but has very limited features.

Oh, interesting. Thanks for that. I have never owned a Stratus, and wasn’t familiar with the model designations.

Yeah - this is an old blogspot site that hasn’t changed at all since 2010 or so when it launched. Someone probably figured out the password and the owner just rolled back the change after she noticed. It’s a strange site to deface, tbh - it’s highly technical and can’t possibly get much traffic.

Fwiw, here’s the post that was at the top of the page today … http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/12/this-aviation-blog-is-closed-permanently.html They’ve changed the text to say “open” instead of closed, but no comments from the admin.

Interestingly, I just saw today that the new GP release supports the Appareo Stratus device, which I always understood to be an exclusive product made under an agreement between Appareo and ForeFlight. Could be a shot in the arm for GP subscriptions.

Dunno, they had a big message on the home page saying the site had been shut down and would not be updated further.

I really really wanted to love WingX, especially because they have a free subscription for CFIs, but for some reason the interface just never made sense to me. I used it for a month or so, and always struggled to find what I was looking for.

That's definitely the cheapest option for US/NA data. For a regular US navdata subscription, it's $299/year.

It just depends on what data subscription you have. If you have a Jepp subscription, you'll need the Jepp writer, but if you have a Garmin subscription, you'll need the Garmin writer. For US/NA data, Garmin is quite a bit cheaper - but outside the US, Jepp is the clear winner.

The Jeppesen reader/writer will work for Jepp data, but you'll need a Garmin writer for Garmin data. You can use the same cards in either case.

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/

It is intended for the initial contact with ATC, but in this particular case I think the student could have used some unsolicited advice. If I heard a “student pilot, taxi for takeoff runway 3,” I would almost certainly get on the radio to point out the 20G30 tailwind and suggest that he back taxi 21.

In this scenario, I would let them both depart 3 and then I’d taxi full length for departure 21. If the 172 pilot was indeed a student, it would have been a good time to use the “student pilot” phraseology on his radio calls.

From the horse's mouth over at PoA .. https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/alrighty-then-whos-buying-it.135789/page-2#post-3186562

There are adapter cables that pull your camera audio straight from your headset plugs - I've used one of these with a GoPro and the audio quality is excellent. https://www.nflightcam.com/collections/cables

Mentioned a few times on MS. I don’t recall anyone who’s actually had one installed, though. https://mooneyspace.com/topic/35954-looks-cool/

Yeah pretty weird. I enjoy their channel. Since they’re selling both the airplane and the hangar, sounds like a move out of Chicagoland (and beyond 310 range from the continental US). Guam has controllers, right?

Fwiw, I got the email and I’m not a customer. I think I just signed up for email updates from the Dynon website at some point.

OT: This is the iPad charger I keep thinking about https://www.ps-engineering.com/PMA450B.html

Idk, I bought a J because I wanted a four banger. Even if they were the same price, the lower fuel burn and cheaper mx (especially at overhaul time) were compelling factors for me. It’s not a foregone conclusion that a six is always better or that paying more money for more cylinders is always the right decision.

I think those are the “helicopter” plugs.

Is it still the case that a diesel engine can’t be overhauled? I’m way out of my depth on diesel aircraft engines, but I remember raising an eyebrow at some point when I read that you have to throw away the engine and replace it with a new one at some mx interval.

Yep, the Maxwell procedure (which also matches my flight manual) works perfectly every time for the IO-360. But I also use this same procedure for the O-360, and it works equally well.

Dare I ask how the airplane came to have no engine at all?