BDPetersen

Pad heater.

Or add a finger width.

My airport had high speed internet available and I tapped into that a year ago with 1 gig speed at my hangar. A smart outlet lets me control my plug in heater from my phone. Even better, I put a point to point wi-fi from there to my house, 800’ away. The cable company promised wiring up the house for years, but nada. Get 500-600 speed at the house and said good bye to satellite internet.

Scott Simon did a nice tribute on NPR this morning.

If you have a trolley or bottle jack handy and a bar stuck through the knuckle (whatever it is called) of the gear, you can lift enough to slip a too tall wing jack into position.

Do you have a list of Manfrotto parts you used?

Looks like the kind of stuff we used to wish on to those at the top of the seniority list to enhance advancement. Hang gliders, too.

Oh, good. All these years of staying mum on CTAF I was ok. Figured anything I said was stepped on by all the other jabbering, anyway.

Okay, I’ll bite. Who “approves” radio calls?

I think I answered my own question. Sorry. Looks like it is but I wouldn’t need the probes, etc. and the new gauge only price is about the same as yours.

Do you know if that is a plug and play for the 700?

Then there is the ubiquitous wire stripping tool that for some reason always sucks me in because of some improvement over the old one. I wonder where it is . . .

While I built a pole barn hangar once, I purchased a 60x42 pole barn type structure on the airport. It never had a successful door at that time. I was familiar with the Ultimate Door being sold as plans and parts in the EAA magazine. I built a 48’ version that has withstood 32 years of use, so far. Extremely minimalistic, stick, cable, garage door track, fiberglass (type) skin, harbor freight winch. Probably not what you had in mind, but it keeps the weather out and the translucent panels let the light in.

Congratulations! Get a big watch and sunglasses and they will know.

I strongly urge the total immersion, camp with the plane experience. Been doing that for 48 years (not every year). So much to take in. I predict 2 things will happen: after 3-4 days you won’t want to leave and return to reality and when you do you will first notice the days just beginning to shorten as summer slides away, you will already be looking forward to next year’s OSH. On a useful note, I noted last year that the taxi paths were alarmingly not smooth and my empty Mooney was difficult to keep from porpoising. Hadn’t experienced that before. Fisk arrival: keep the railroad tracks between your legs, mind your altitude and, of course, eyes and ears open.