As I laid down to go to sleep Monday night, I was thinking I *might* go for a short RV flight the next morning to go inspect some of the recent tornado damage, if the WX was VFR. Around 5 AM it started raining. By 6 it was raining really really hard. A little after seven it was obvious I was gonna have to drive Susie up to her volunteer gig at the hospital. We counted 25 trees cracked or tumped over.
This is what the airport looked like. I need to cross this taxiway and I have brand new grease in those mains. So I worked on the car. Finally got the remanufactured starter in the 17 yr old Accord. Good to go!
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DIY VOR Antennae: Carl Froehlich
“…On four RVs I built a standard wingtip antenna out of aluminum from the scrap box, some fiberglass to make the Gama Match, and perhaps $3 of specialty hardware. It works outside 100nmi for VOR reception, and LOC/GS far beyond useable range.”
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I finished my panel upgrade.
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PSA: Ensure fuel filtering between tanks and Red Cube fuel flow transducer
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Control Cable Clearance RV-14 (Mixture)
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This is what the airport looked like. I need to cross this taxiway and I have brand new grease in those mains. So I worked on the car. Finally got the remanufactured starter in the 17 yr old Accord. Good to go!
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DIY VOR Antennae: Carl Froehlich
“…On four RVs I built a standard wingtip antenna out of aluminum from the scrap box, some fiberglass to make the Gama Match, and perhaps $3 of specialty hardware. It works outside 100nmi for VOR reception, and LOC/GS far beyond useable range.”
Best VOR/LOC/GS antenna?
No it isn’t. If that were true then using a horizontal vor wouldn’t work for GS. Oh good that you mention that. I had it first horizontally polarized with a different modification, then read it was vertically polarized and started over. I just went back and the internet is pretty much split...
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I finished my panel upgrade.
I finished my panel upgrade.
It took a while having to crawl underneath the panel hundreds of times but eventually got done. I'm pretty happy with it. My little glove box there is not coincidentally the size of many ifr navigators. Maybe that'll happen another day.
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2024 Oshkosh RV Social is ON
2024 Oshkosh RV Social
2024 Oshkosh RV Social Monday July 22nd 1366 WEST WAUKAU AVENUE Starts When The Airshow Gets Boring (Let's call it 4 o'clock) Ends When The Kegs Run Dry Yes, it's on! The old sot staggered up from the basement and declared herself ready to party, assuming she could find some clean...
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PSA: Ensure fuel filtering between tanks and Red Cube fuel flow transducer
PSA: Ensure fuel filtering between tanks and Red Cube fuel flow transducer
Hi folks, I experienced a complete engine failure in my RV7 a few weeks ago, due to fuel system obstruction, and figured I'd share the experience with the community in case it helps prevents similar incidents. Luckily, the failure happened on downwind, so I was able to deadstick it to the...
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Control Cable Clearance RV-14 (Mixture)
Control Cable Clearance RV-14 (Mixture)
Wondering if anybody is using a FM-150 servo with Vans standard exhaust? I'm using this configuration and am having a clearance issue with the mixture cable. The clearance is approximately 1/4". No enough room for a heat shield and may not be enough for encase the cable in fire sleeve...
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Pushed out every now and then.
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