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Nick Pilotte

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  1. Lots of options for airports. If nothing else, KLAF is about 60 minutes north on I-65. Call around and see what’s available. Indy has a pretty nice outer loop to help with traffic and I find it not bad (I live in a Chicago burb). Last time I was at IMS was the week before Tony George left. I called in a favor and a small group of us got a tour of the basement and a lap around the track in our own cars. It was a blast. Try and get a reservation at St Elmo’s downtown by the circle for a great steak. They may be booked solid for that weekend.
  2. Tom, I actually have been thinking about you’d as I sit at work shaking my head at a certain transmission supplier (rhymes with Schmeaton) that I handle now. And I was thinking, I wonder if Tom is experiencing the same pain as our dealers, and how you have been since I’ve been vacant from MS as well. Anyways, congrats, it’s a fine beast, and I hope you continue enjoying flying.
  3. In the case of the airport my friend is at, since it’s within a few miles of ORD, you climb to 1400, then immediate turn East. Depending on the approach you get vectors out over the lake or back to OBK VOR. Another pilot I know who experienced the loss of GPS into PWK before it was notam’d immediately loaded the ILS approach and continued on to break out 300’ AGL.
  4. 1) Appearances can be deceiving (I imagined Anthony looking like an old wise man, he looks like a Mooney driver) 2) cheesesteak and BBQ can add a few pounds the camera hides 3) Mooney’s are fast, even sitting still 4) Jealous because I need a good cheesesteak(they don’t exist in Illinois) PP thoughts only, just a lurker, not an owner
  5. My friend has seen this on a GPS approach into his home airport on his G1000 too. The airport now has a NOTAM stating that approach is not in service and the ILS is to be used. It appears there is something surface based 5 miles and 2 miles out that is disrupting the signals. Because it’s an approach and under a Bravo shelf, I don’t know other implications.
  6. I fly using VORs (not IFR and my CFI wouldnt let me use GPS in my training). In fact my night XC was planned using VOR radials for the turn points. I like it. Now I’m getting used to GPS…….
  7. Photoshopped. Mooney drivers would never spring for an Audi. They’d get the VW.
  8. Actually....That’s part of the reason. Demand for consumer electronics skyrocketed in the last 16 months because a high volume were working from home/e-learning/not traveling, and automotive demands dropped due to less consumers buying/repairing vehicles because they were staying home more. So consumer electronics companies had to go into high gear and their component needs were addressed due to the dwindling automotive industry. Unfortunately the trickledown effect was that more raw materials shortages occurred due to production and staffing impacts. This will take a while to correct itself. edited to add: just in time manufacturing means that parts aren’t allowed/scheduled to arrive until they are needed. So if automotive manufacturers forecast a drop in production needs, they cancel orders for components. Who swooped in and took their place? You guessed it.
  9. Actually, manufactures can’t sell vehicles they can’t get parts for. So it’s a double edged sword. Just in time assembly doesn’t allow for disruptions, especially those that last months. So rental agencies need cars, manufactures need to build cars but can’t get parts because their globally sourced suppliers can’t get parts. As for Dan, I’m wondering if this fuel cost is trickledown effect from the pipeline issue recently or not.
  10. Aside from rental car fees (which are asinine now) Rampfee.me lists Millionair as the FBO at GPT. That site indicates that others have had waived handling fees with $60 in fuel and at least the first night of parking waived. I’m guessing that’s inaccurate now due to Covid shutdowns. Did you by chance call in advance? Just an FYI, the fees shown on Rampfee.me matched what we paid at KIAD on when I flew there with my friend in his VLJ, though we didn’t overnight. So if that’s somewhat accurate, GPT is about the same as IAD. I’ll be honest in saying that I’m a CSOB when it comes to finding travel deals (doesn’t mean I always go with the cheapest though) and I tend to shop multiple rental agencies and weigh cost of a little time if I need to have someone get me to an off airport rental or if they will pick me up. It’s saved me a ton in my travels but sometimes you are pretty stuck with whatever (I do go to some rather rural locations). I know Hertz is known among FBO locations, did anyone know many car dealers offer rental options too? Audi has a very reasonable rental service at a handful of cities too.
  11. That happened to me too. I now have 250 Feather razor blades. And a beard.
  12. I don’t know if she’d let you STC this.... but I’ve seen these too. You could almost do something counter height like that as well
  13. Early in my training, I had a sectional and checklist handy under my leg, and a pad of paper in the pocket by the door (Cessna). It didn’t take long for me to lose the notepad and end up learning unusual attitude recovery that lesson. Then, I learned “engine failure in cruise” when I dropped my sectional and my CFI took advantage of the situation. Emergency procedure became immediate memory items shortly after that. Now, I use just a cheap aluminum kneeboard with a couple sheets of paper and a checklist connected via ring clips through holes I drilled in it. My iPad serves as my map but I do keep a sectional in the back seat just in case. I’d like a Lift or a Flyboys for a place to easily put a pen but I typically wear collared shirts too so that’s just a nice to have for the odd time I have a polo on. My Citation friend has a non-slip pad on his glare shield with a small clipboard and a couple sheets of paper, and his cheap Bic click pens fit in his control lock when it’s not in use. Maybe I just need a Citation.....
  14. Don, why about mounting something like an under-counter mixer stand mechanism upside down? That sounds almost perfect for what you need.
  15. Is it to be manually operated or motorized. Sounds like you need to study a windshield wiper transmission assembly. That has an over enter type mechanism and a return to park position.
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