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Twist the bottom closed, put the old oil cap on the top and stuff the whole thing in a plastic box.

@GeeBee is right on the mark. Decide where you need to live in Atlanta and pay a lot of attention to the traffic, then think about an airport and hangar space. In my opinion, particularly on the southside, fly in communities are plentiful and available. Strangely, as people "age out", they keep living in their aviation community, but their big hangars are either empty, or re-purposed to a rec-vehicle garage. Finding a convenient hangar may require thinking outside of the box.

Comparing a single engine, single pilot propeller plane with a jet card is ludicrous. The jet card gets you safety, speed, reliability and capabilities that no Mooney can even approach. While the Mooney may be far cheaper, it returns far less in value in 200 hours of use. Mooney travel fills a niche, but it is a limited niche.

Absolutely correct!

Hank, I guess you missed the point of my post. The abort point is not cut and dried. There are many factors that affect the decision...and the outcome. Wet grass is just one example.

While I agree with you "on an average day", I can tell you for sure this is not true on wet grass!

Sometimes "lies" are in the ears of the listener. Pilots, at least, do not have a reason to lie and most are straight shooters when talking to their passengers. Once when we were about to depart ATL-MSY, I checked the weather just before pushback, the MSY forecast had changed and we now needed an alternate...and more fuel. Dispatch quickly added the alternate but getting the fuel wasn't so quick, so I explained to the passengers that the new weather forecast required us to take on additional fuel and that was causing the delay. When we got to MSY (we actually landed pretty close to schedule), but as I was walking down the concourse headed to the hotel, I was "accosted" by a female passenger and accused of. lying about the departure delay! She said, she knew I was lying because when I said the forecast had changed, she called her husband in New Orleans and he said the weather was good. End of story...in her mind the airline had lied to her

Flight attendant after-landing announcement prior to name change: "Well, folks, welcome to San Jose." Flight attendant after-landing announcement after name change: "Well, folks, welcome to San Jose."

Jet A resets all previous "price points".

In this age of ADS-B and cell phones, does anyone question the necessity (other than the legal requirement) of an ELT east of the Rocky Mountains?

Excellent reason the inspection portion of SB 208B should be completed periodically and certainly as part of every PPI. You never know until you look.

The FAA was pretty clear: The goal of ARAIM is to allow LPV-200 approaches (200-foot minimums) anywhere in the world, the FAA explained. I don't think reduction in cost, or complexity was a goal.....

Absolutely. Years ago when my SOS was causing starting problems, a set of points and the capacitor, were $13....simple, simple installarion/repair. Miraculous results!

From AIN: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aerospace/2023-01-26/faa-researching-advanced-raim-gps-approaches?utm_hsid=28755669&utm_campaign=AIN Alerts&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=243367554&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2gy0zrfklus0dWURjNgKG7GB3hmW_8Vkmjq_QwRIxJvJhjGwOHL2y-yeftfo9E8dOU0Qhjex6PU31hWB_Q_zShOe1Gg&utm_content=2&utm_source=hs_email The FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center is conducting research that could lead to improved GPS integrity allowing further development of low-cost vertically guided instrument approaches. The current integrity system for lateral guidance only is receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) and it doesn’t depend on ground stations or other infrastructure. “RAIM allows aviation receivers to detect a GPS satellite fault and in many cases isolate the offending satellite and remove it from usage by the receiver,” according to the FAA. For vertical guidance integrity, the FAA’s wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) uses ground stations to ensure accuracy of the GPS signals. Advanced RAIM (ARAIM) simplifies the vertical integrity aspect by eliminating the need for WAAS ground stations, instead using another civilian global navigation satellite system (GNSS) such as Europe’s Galileo to help improve accuracy. ARAIM does this by using the second GNSS to allow the GPS receiver to directly measure ionospheric error, according to the FAA. “The ionosphere is in most cases the largest source of error in a GNSS signal, and the ionosphere can also reduce the integrity of GNSS signals.” The goal of ARAIM is to allow LPV-200 approaches (200-foot minimums) anywhere in the world, the FAA explained. ARAIM thus would become an aircraft-based augmentation system, vastly increasing the utility of GNSS-based approaches.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/102791 Maybe they'll offer jobs to all those aging former B-727 flight engineers since we all spent so much time at the CDC building?

Some people overlook the fact that you are building into a community. Not all communities are happy places. In a few communities, the bickering is louder than the airplane noise. In my opinion, the smaller communities can be tighter communities, but in a small community, one jerk can have an overwhelming effect.

@KSMooniac any progress on your airport property?

This local AME has sent this to me: On a basic EKG, there is the "P wave", followed by the "QRS complex", followed by the "T wave". The P wave is the atria (upper chambers) firing (contracting), the QRS is the ventricles firing, and the T wave is the ventricles "repolarizing". If the "P-R interval" is prolonged, it is considered "first degree heart block" and it is less than a specified interval, it is considered a "normal variant" and isn't a problem. The AME can issue normally, and life is good. Up until October of 2022, if the interval was more than 0.20, and less than 0.21, it was considered a normal variant, and issuance was normal. If longer than 0.2 seconds (200 milliseconds), the AME had to get authorization to issue (usually just a phone call) and issuance was normal. In October, the AME guide was updated, and if the interval was longer than 0.20, and less than 0.30, issuance is now normal.

But @GeeBee, do you remember when Delta 727 Second officer training was in the CDC building off of Virginia Avenue? I think we all got infected with something....!

This link is making the rounds on airline pilot union boards. The new range is, apparently, fact. The cause for the new range is speculation. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-faa-has-very-quietly-tacitly This might be good if your EKGs have raised the FAA's "interest". A local AME has opined that the FAA is too slow and too disorganized for this to be a reaction to anything and this was something probably in the works for years...after that he added, "But I'm not going to get any more boosters".

Simulator sessions often include stupid scenarios when there's extra time at the end of the period. One of the "old standbys" was to take of on KPHL's rwy 9R, do a touch and go on 9L and a full stop on rwy 8. Needless to say, no checklists get done. Landing on an aircraft carrier in a Boeing? No problemo....just crank up the headwind!

B-727....we took off on SFO rwy 01 in the wee hours, cleared to 3000', but stopped ATC stopped us at 1500' (pack trip when the power suddenly came back...poor hapless FE!). We were immediately on base leg for the NW runway to KOAK. I think we logged 0.1.....barely.

Years ago, I found that 120.9 was garbled on both my comm radios. When I complained to a tron-tech, he opened the fuselage access and completely removed my ELT. That cleared up the frequency. It didn't make sense to me since the ELT wasn't transmitting. The tron said it was a frequency harmonic caused by the proximity of the ELT antenna to the comm antennae (or something like that). He installed a "gizmo" (choke?) on the ELT's antenna connector and the problem never recurred. Personally, I think it was fixed by a secret Wiccan incantation. That makes more sense than an "antennae harmonic". I only offer this story in case you know that Wiccan incantation.

My '74C had the factory alternator with a shroud. The scat you mention was attacched to that shroud.