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The GO allows sat access for your smart phone for voice calls, text, email, and a few basic apps. You can program an SOS button, so essentially speed...

Thanks. I looked the info up and it supports AeroPlus weather and PredictWind, which looks like Windy. Playing with both now. Thanks for the reply.

A little more on Dooley- https://mustreadalaska.com/report-crash-in-washington-state-takes-life-of-legendary-alaska-bush-pilot/

How is the weather app? Useful? I presume you can’t use standard apps like weathercams and accuweather? I tried an Iridium Axxess Point years ago and...

I forgot to include the ACR Bivy Stick. Also Iridium based and offers texting, tracking, and weather. It uses credits for services and unused credits...

Dooley Vanyo... wow. RIP. I wonder if Rusty was in the plane? No mention in the news articles.

No, but that's a tail geometry issue, same as changing a -12 to -18 incidence won't make the -12 perform quite to -18 standards. Watch a modified -12...

FWIW, the Cub I watch most has increased AOI yet his flight attitude is the same as every other Cub I see. The thing I recognize is speed. That Cub...

What about nose up trim in slow flight? Are you using the full range?

Isn’t the point of added AOI to provide better slow speed performance? In order to do that you have to give up something, and the guys I know who’ve...

I’m both appreciative and surprised at the NTSB’s statements about this accident. They definitely have worded the report differently than most. Was...

Fly it at designed operating weight and power settings before adjusting anything. The plane has a purpose and it may serve it very well as-is....

I'd replace it with the much simpler oil shutter offered by Anti Splat Aero. Put the shutter on the back side if you're concerned with it being seen....

Was the horizontal indexed to compensate for the revised AOI? Maybe try adjusting the CG a little to calm it down? A little weight can make a big...

re: Peltola https://alaskapublic.org/2023/09/28/ntsb-plane-in-crash-that-killed-peltolas-husband-was-heavily-laden-with-moose-meat-antlers/

You guys who fly in northern Iraq should take heed. They must have needed filler material for the magazine.

There are a LOT of beautiful places on this planet, along with a LOT of great people. Alaska doesn’t have an exclusive on either.

Clean it up and carefully pick off any loose or flaking paint. I’d probably use a little rejuvenator to soften up the undercoatings, dab in some...

Brush some Poly Spray (silver) into the cracks and exposed laces. It’ll look like Frankenstein but it’ll prevent UV destroying the fabric. You may...

FWIW, on my Cub the rudder-top Whelen LED beacon is the most powerful light. It has Orion strobes and they’re good, but that beacon is hard to look...

Your 1980 airplane falls under the most stringent anti-collision lighting requirements, but three strobes should meet that requirement. I don’t...

I’ve said more than I ever intended. Have a good night.

It’s not unlike approaching an intersection in your car. You expect the brakes to work, and they do 99.9999% of the time, so you carry speed until a...