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But as you said they are called “thinners” All of them reduce the O2 capacity of blood

Aspirin thins the blood and reduces oxygen carrying ability.

The Meyer 22" are muy bueno! You are lucky to find a used set. They are rare.

Ya think!

Hopefully they will de-conflict but in busy airspace and descending on a published arrival they might just call the traffic to you. I had this problem several times, one going into ATL at FL180, another in SLC and yet another near TUS. In the case of TUS it was a 500' separation from a Bellanca in class D at night and in sight, but I got nailed with an RA. Before I could go to bed......Paperwork!

Ever fly a turbo-prop? Or fly ATL to AGS?

I'll say one thing about flying VFR at 17,500. It is like doing a straight in at an uncontrolled airport. Yes it is legal. Yes it can work out but it can be terribly selfish. Why? Another aircraft can be at FL180. At FL180 the TCAS computer software is looking in "Class A" mode which means it sees anything less than 1000' creates an RA. Now you would say, "Great, they will avoid me" except just about airline has an SMS program which requires the PIC to write up any RA's. So rather than go home, that poor sob is going to be writing up a useless RA. Equally so, should the RA cause a maneuver other aircraft may be affected. If I want to fly at 17 I go full IFR. I never use 17,500.

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The icing forecast was pretty grim, but it is not clear that is what brought down this helicopter. I for sure would not want to fly that route at those altitudes in those conditions in any aircraft.

Price?

I have been watching this crash since first reported. I really question the decision to dispatch a helicopter into the conditions at the time including significant icing threat. I realize the military has to train to "the edge" but looking at the conditions this was well over the edge. Ops officer should have stopped this mission as it was beyond the needs and requirements of the service.

I would agree.

Which side is getting hot? The charger side or the battery side?

The plating is all off my pitot tube and I wear it like a badge of honor. It means I've been out there, running the heat on it to keep ice off of it and flying the airplane in conditions for which it was designed. Purdy pitot tubes are like rhinestone cowboys! Nothing wrong with riding a Palomino but have a working saddle on it.

Call CAV and have them email you a parts catalog. PM sent.

In the state of GA it is illegal for law enforcement to access a state data base (i.e. license plate records) unless it is for three reasons. One is an felony act. Two is a misdemeanor which means the officer has to observe the act and three is for officer's safety. For instance, my registration expires upon my birthdate on the 5th. I was pulled over on the 15th for an expired tag, even though I paid the fee and had the tag. The officer explained it was 50-50 on the 15th so he ran my plate. That is violation of the law as there was no observable misdemeanor only a supposition (no observable misdemeanor). It got pretty testy in court and I appealed out of municipal court to Superior court where the City Attorney begged me not to go forward. I agreed to plead no contest if the City Attorney agreed to explain to the rookie officer how he broke the law and next time might not turn out so well. I shook hands with the officer and told him I just wanted him to understand how he broke the law as much as I did.

Not quite. Taylor Swift's airplane as well as other use the PIA program which prevents the casual data user as well as Flight Aware et all from tracking them. However there are ways for the sophisticated user around that as Elon Musk found out. Once you have their ICAO ID, it is game over on data suppression.

There is no law against taking a picture of a license plate. There are laws against taking pictures and storing them in a data base which varies from stay to state

Not quite. The data available to the general public, such as FlightAware could be quite different than that available to ATC. It is simply a matter of what data fields are allowed out and right now the FAA is being very lazy in its data transmission policy. I suspect and fear it will change only when malevolent actors weaponize it. IMHO the N number or call sign is not needed for FIS traffic.

Currently there is technology called ALPR, automated license plate readers which automatically read your license plate. There is strict limitations on the use of them and access to the data. For instance at the ATL airport your license is read when enter the parking lot and a vehicle with ALPR equipment drives through the lots daily to record the parked cars and references the data with geo-location. Several times a day, there are travelers who forget where they parked their car and they have to go to the Airport police station who are the only people allowed to access the data. After verifying ownership they take you to your mis-placed car. Equally so, there are ALPR unit mounted on patrol cars (those two boxes on the truck lid) which continuously scan plates for stolen vehicles or wanted individuals. The use of and the storage of the data varies by state but suffice to say, the data cannot be stored very long if at all and its use limited by law. My car wash uses ALPR to verify my membership, but it cannot store, when or the fact that I was even there. It can only "verify" I am on the membership list. I find it interesting that the general public and the state and Federal authorities have a lot of "heartburn" over ALPR data, but have zero problem depositing ADS-B data willy nilly to anyone. Yeah, the crazy can wait outside the Montana for John Lennon but the fact is John Lennon could have used the secure entrance but chose to meet 'his public". I think we all have a right to be "modestly secure" in our comings and goings. The belching out of this ADS-B data would not be tolerated by the average citizen just as ALPR data is not. Heck we even require dispersal of firearms personally identifiable sales data and its destruction from central databases after 90 days. Why? Because they have better lobbyists than we do in aviation. Of course I have an Alexa in my house, but that is my choice.

I guess I will have to quit complaining about the Kannad units.

I've also seen a few GIA's get "cranky" when it is cold. Don't know what your temps are there (likely cold) you might blow a little heat in the E&E and see what happens.

Both the #2 GIA and the A/P are on the non-essential bus. I would try resetting the MFD C/B and see what it does. Both those units report in through the MFD.

When I am in icing, I'll take the leaky skylight

It is true. You want a firm touchdown to break the viscous layer and get the tires in contact for spin up for the anti-skid system. (I've seen 727 go into full release without positive spin up) In addition n the older 737 this was especially important as the "shift bar" needed to push up to deploy the spoilers. A lot of guys went off a wet runway in the 737 Classic after a feather like touch down. However in this case, the spoilers were not armed at all. With the 13 knot crosswind, the airplane went into immediate weather vane mode and without the tires firmly on the runway it easily weather vaned into the wind. While we concentrate on crosswind technique with aileron firmly into the wind, it is equally important to keep the weight on the mains as the tire cornering forces are significant and helpful, especially on a slick runway. That means back on the elevator and speedbrakes up (if you go them).