Avionics Help/Recommendations Neede

Montblack wrote:
Is that direct or via airways? Sorry, too lazy to pull up the flight
planner.


AirNav: ANE to GOO 1,278.5 nm
(I couldn't recall the other CA. airport, 20 miles away)

AOPA flight planner, great circle route: 1279 nm. Victor airways: 1314
nm. The software didn't recognize KGOO so had to go with O17


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Just remember who gave you the idea Todd. :-)

No doubt, it was you who mentioned that I should ask Jim for help...
You'll notice that I never had to ask though, because Jim obviously
felt sorry for me, or decided to offer to put an end to my whining!
;-) Either way, I'm appreciative!

BTW Jim, little did I realize my a casual comment of "You could always
ask Jim W." when Todd and I flew on Monday would inspire you two on a
little avionics adventure. I'm jealous.

I'd be happy to pick up an extra avionics screwdriver for you, if you
really feel like you're missing out??? ;-)

Looking forward to what is sure to be a learning experience!!!

Best Regards,
Todd

three-eight-hotel wrote:

I'd be happy to pick up an extra avionics screwdriver for you, if you
really feel like you're missing out??? ;-)

Just be sure to post when you'll be doing the work. A certain Arrow
driver may just have to log some landings at KGOO to come check in on
all the fun.

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Hey Jim... The wife is back, I've been cut free from being duct taped
to the chair by the children, and I'm ready to start thinking about
this again...

I have looked up the Cinch 140 series and the Molex .062", and have a
vague understanding of what you are recommending, but talking it
through a little more would be helpful.

I have been unsuccessful finding a pinout for the Cessna 300 Nav/Com
radio I have, so I still have some legwork there...

Are you still interested in mentoring an electonically challenged
pilot? ;-) I typically pick my daughter up from school around 3:00,
and could have her home and be at the GOO by 5:00ish (earlier if
necessary), any weeknight. Or could be up there on a weekend at a time
of convenience for you.

I'd be happy to fly up there in the near future, so we could take an
intial looksie, and toss some ideas around...

Thanks and best regards!
Todd

("three-eight-hotel" wrote)
Are you still interested in mentoring an electonically challenged pilot?
;-)


[Hi Todd. Glad you could make it.]
Hi Jim. Thanks.

[Let's start with the basics, shall we?]
Ok Jim. Anything you say.

[First things first. #1) There's an "r" in electronically.]
Doh! g


Montblackout

[First things first. #1) There's an "r" in electronically.]
Doh! g

Maybe I should have left out "electronically" all together and just
said "a challenged pilot"!

Microsoft would do well to include a spell checker in their browser,
and Todd would do well to proof-read his post before submitting! ;-)

Best Regards,
Todd

("three-eight-hotel" wrote)
Microsoft would do well to include a spell checker in their browser, and
Todd would do well to proof-read his post before submitting! ;-)


It's my understanding that Outlook Express uses the spell checker in (for
me) Office97.

My OE 6.0 spell checker has been down for a while [????]. I've tried
everything short of reformatting the Hard Drive. My solution is to
copy/paste over to Mozilla Thunderbird, use that spell checker, then make
the changes in my OE post ...and send ...then Sync All.

Sounds convoluted but it's actually fast, easy - and a solution I can live
with ...like inserting a pencil into the minivan's tape player - after
hitting "eject" first, holding the pencil against the moving tape tray until
the tray stops, then removing the pencil, all to get my car radio started.

Works every time! :-)


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
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("three-eight-hotel" wrote)
Microsoft would do well to include a spell checker in their browser, and
Todd would do well to proof-read his post before submitting! ;-)


It's my understanding that Outlook Express uses the spell checker in (for
me) Office97.

Well it uses the spell check from whatever version of Office you have.


My OE 6.0 spell checker has been down for a while [????]. I've tried
everything short of reformatting the Hard Drive. My solution is to
copy/paste over to Mozilla Thunderbird, use that spell checker, then make
the changes in my OE post ...and send ...then Sync All.


Why not just use Thunderbird as a newsreader?

("Gig 601XL Builder" wrote)
Why not just use Thunderbird as a newsreader?


I've tried it twice. I keep coming back to OE.

We use Mozilla Thunderbird for most of our e-mails.

IMPORTANT: I just discovered that I'm suppose to right click and "Compact
This Folder" manually in Thunderbird. Or else...

[Tools/Options/Advanced/Offline Settings]
The setting for: "Disk Space: Compact folder when it will save over ??? KB"
was set too high, or was off. I've never compacted my T-Bird messages
before - oops. Never thought about it. OE does it automatically. [I've since
set mine to 100KB.]

Anyway, T-Bird locked up and I had to go to the web to read up how to get it
to quit "building summary file for..." - which it would do but never finish.

Web said to do a few things as one possible solution: Inbox became InboxOld
so I got to start fresh with a new default Inbox. I copied the contents of
InboxOld (some stuff I really want is still locked up in there) over to a
new folder location on my Desktop. When I try accessing it, it still does
the "building summary file for..." thing - but at least this way I've got a
fresh start with T-Bird.

The old Inbox Folder on my Desktop is 250MB. I've since learned Thunderbird
is happier with smaller, sub-divided folders.

I'll Google and play with it more another time.


Montblack

Montblack wrote:
Sounds convoluted but it's actually fast, easy - and a solution I can
live with ...like inserting a pencil into the minivan's tape player -
after hitting "eject" first, holding the pencil against the moving tape
tray until the tray stops, then removing the pencil, all to get my car
radio started.


Yes, convoluted is the term that came to mind.

One word - Thunderbird. I switched from OE a year or so ago and haven't
looked back.



--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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