Here in Indianapolis I have seen Mogas go down from $3.20 a gallon to $2.50 and it appears that it will keep on dropping. On the other hand at my home base I just filled up for a trip and still are paying $4.50 a gallon. Has anyone noticed if Avgas is coming down too? Maybe it has to do with...

Here's some good news for California based aircraft owners: AOPA GETS HISTORICAL AIRCRAFT CLARIFICATION FROM BOE At the request of AOPA, the California Board of Equalization (BOE) has clarified recent changes to the property tax exemption for historical aircraft. This exemption is available to an...

Whooee! Gona have to work until you are 70 to pay for that! "Margy Natalie" wrote in message ... Cy Galley wrote: TSA still got your plane locked up or are you still looking for that old

I've read through the archives.... but would still like to hear a few more real world experiences before I spend $7-8K on a set of IO-520 cylinders. Anybody out there have enough hours on an overhaul using new ECI Cermi-Nil cylinders to write home about? How about Milleniums? I'm...

This is a bit long winded but I'm looking for qualified opinions as to what might have happed to an almost total loss of power while in cruise flight in my Mooney M20F. Here is the story of what happened: I was flying from Turlock (south of Modesto) to Petaluma (north of San Francisco) on a...

My mission will be 50% of the time just my wife and I cross country and 50% with our two best friends, one of which is mobility impaired. Would any of you be able to recommend an airplane that would have an easy entrance and exit for rear seat passengers? It would not be possible for her to climb...

subject says it all -- Bob Noel New NHL? what a joke

We're having some problems with our KX-155 where it intermittently stops navigating. Several attempts at repair have failed. A friend has a KX-155 that won't transmit. Another friend had a series of repairs on his KX-155. The conventional wisdom seems to be that the KX-155 is the gold standard...

Price of two new ribs............ 1.1 AMUs Crating those ribs for shipment.. 0.1 AMU Labor estimate................... 3.5 AMUs to 4.9 AMUs (50-70 hours) Kleenex.......................... Free At least I can divide by three and share the pain. Good thing I'd been flying like crazy the past few...

I have just finsihed my Instrument rating and it is about time to move up to soemthing faster that hauls more than my wonderful Piper Cherokee 140. An interetsing possibility is a Piper Lance or Turbo Lance. I am open to comments and hope to get some! John Purner Editor - The $100...

Hi everyone, I've run into a problem with renewing my medical because of a diagnosis of Sleep Apnea. It didn't cause me to fail my medical, but I didn't pass either. Since the AME had never run into a pilot with Sleep Apnea before, he wound up calling Oklahoma and talking to the FAA. The FAA...

I'm a new pilot looking for my first bird. I'm mostly looking at TAP, Controller, and ASO. Whenever I find a plane that meets my needs, I am finding a huge disparity in the values returned by AOPA's Vref and TAP's NAAA evaluator. I have read in this newsgroup that Vref runs about 10% high, but I'm...

I'm fantasy shopping for my new warbird or historic aircraft. My requirements are ... - Historic value (rare and interesting aircraft) - Reasonably easy to fly - No turbines and under 12,500 lbs (no type rating needed) - Seats two - Aerobatic - Easy on the eyes

How you folks "out east" doing tonight? Check in when you get back up and running. -- Montblack

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The B/K KAP 140 autopilot in my 2006 Cessna T-182T has a problem that is baffling the avionics shop. The altitude capture/hold function does not work. Here are the symptoms: o All other functions work, including +/- vertical speed control. o It will accept and correctly execute a...

I've had the EDM-700 in my panel since 2002. I was able to download the engine data once, way back when the unit was new, but then my old laptop's battery died, and I never could remember to bring it (or its power cord) to the hangar. And, quite frankly, IMHO the saved data was presented in a...

Hi group, There are larve in my static ports again. The problem is that I do not have compressed air to blow them out. I was thinking about using CO2 cartridges like they use for emergency tire repairs. Or maybe a bicycle pump will do the job. My concern is the max pressure I can use before I...

I finally got my plane out of the shop about 5 days ago, two of the things I had installed I had no information on so I thought I would let others know how they turned out incase anyone is thinking of upgrading theirs. I had the PS Engineering 7000b audio panel and the PXE7300 AM/FM/CD player. My...

I been dreaming to buy a machine to do aerobatics as well as touring. Currently I'm doing aerobatic training in a Pitts S2A, but its avionics doesn't seem very suitable for touring or navigation exercises. I have seems some Pitts S1S and the same problems. Can anybody advice me what would the best...