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1. 06:38 AM - AOPA Solicitation? (Rick Galati)
2. 07:09 AM - Re: AOPA Solicitation? (Ron Lee)
3. 07:40 AM - TIS? (David Burton)
4. 08:28 AM - Re: AOPA Solicitation? (Smitty)
5. 09:23 AM - Handheld GPS + misc for sale (Steve & Denise)
6. 09:26 AM - Re: AOPA Solicitation? (linn Walters)
7. 11:11 AM - Re: Handheld GPS + misc for sale (Richard E. Tasker)
8. 11:27 AM - Re: Re: [SoCAL-RVlist] VNY FSDO (Ed Holyoke)
9. 01:14 PM - Re: Connecting Blue Mountain EFIS lite to Pictorial Pilot (Jim Ellis)
10. 07:23 PM - Re: Van's Wheel Fairings (dick martin)
11. 10:06 PM - Re: Van's Wheel Fairings (Doug Gray)
12. 11:02 PM - Iridite Wanted to Buy (messydeer)
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| Subject: | AOPA Solicitation? |
Has anyone else received a recent phone call supposedly from the AOPA asking for
a donation? Often citing the AOPA's around the country seminars and on-line
courses as expensive undertakings needing financial support, it all sounded so
proper until "Brian" asked me to provide him with my credit card number so he
could process my donation with a minimum of hassle. When I declined and instead
suggested he send the donation request via snail mail, "Brian" expressed a
sense of urgency and said my donation should be received by the AOPA no later
than Sept. 5 and he would send out the donation letter immediately. That was
several days ago. For being in such a rush, I wonder why I have yet to receive
an official request from the AOPA. Being cynical by nature, I have to wonder
if the phone call was a legitimate request or just another sophisticated attempt
by bottom feeders to prey upon the unwary? With the Labor Day weekend upon
us, my attempts at contacting the AOPA by
telephone for confirmation have proved fruitless.
Rick Galati RV-6A "Darla"
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| Subject: | Re: AOPA Solicitation? |
--> RV-List message posted by: Ron Lee <ronlee@pcisys.net>
At 07:35 AM 9/2/2006, you wrote:
>Has anyone else received a recent phone call supposedly from the AOPA
>asking for a donation? Often citing the AOPA's around the country
>seminars and on-line courses as expensive undertakings needing financial
>support, it all sounded so proper until "Brian" asked me to provide him
>with my credit card number so he could process my donation with a minimum
>of hassle. When I declined and instead suggested he send the donation
>request via snail mail, "Brian" expressed a sense of urgency and said my
>donation should be received by the AOPA no later than Sept. 5 and he would
>send out the donation letter immediately. That was several days ago. For
>being in such a rush, I wonder why I have yet to receive an official
>request from the AOPA. Being cynical by nature, I have to wonder if the
>phone call was a legitimate request or just another sophisticated attempt
>by bottom feeders to prey upon the unwary? With the Labor Day weekend
>upon us, my attempts at contacting the AOPA by telephone for confirmation
>have proved fruitless.
Has to have your credit card number NOW.
That is a scam.
Ron Lee
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Do you have mode S traffic in the plane? Can you tell me how many times you
fly in an area that is "supposed" to have TIS data available and does not?
We are in the Seattle area, fly in the area of coverage and find that the
data is not being broadcast more then a fraction of the time. Is this the
norm, or is there something unique to our Center? It seems to be true for
Portland as well.
I have to say that TIS in the plane is beyond great when it's available.
Thanks,
Dave
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| Subject: | Re: AOPA Solicitation? |
I made a donation to AOPA several years ago. So now I'm on their "this
guy gives money" list. They call about twice a year now, but they have
never asked for my credit card number. It's always been by snail mail.
My wife is always giving money to a lot of charities, so she gets tons
of calls asking for donations now. Ya' have to watch about getting on
one of those "this person gives money" lists.
Do not archive
Have a goodun!
Smitty's RV-9A
http://SmittysRV.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Galati
To: rv-list@matronics.com
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: RV-List: AOPA Solicitation?
Has anyone else received a recent phone call supposedly from the AOPA
asking for a donation? Often citing the AOPA's around the country
seminars and on-line courses as expensive undertakings needing financial
support, it all sounded so proper until "Brian" asked me to provide him
with my credit card number so he could process my donation with a
minimum of hassle. When I declined and instead suggested he send the
donation request via snail mail, "Brian" expressed a sense of urgency
and said my donation should be received by the AOPA no later than Sept.
5 and he would send out the donation letter immediately. That was
several days ago. For being in such a rush, I wonder why I have yet to
receive an official request from the AOPA. Being cynical by nature, I
have to wonder if the phone call was a legitimate request or just
another sophisticated attempt by bottom feeders to prey upon the unwary?
With the Labor Day weekend upon us, my attempts at contacting the AOPA
by telephone for confirmation have proved fruitless.
Rick Galati RV-6A "Darla"
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| Subject: | Handheld GPS + misc for sale |
Anybody want these?
http://www.members.kingston.net/sjhdcl/rv_stuff_for_sale.htm
do not archive
Steve
RV7A
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| Subject: | Re: AOPA Solicitation? |
I got a call yesterday, as a matter of fact. The lady was doing a great
job of explaining the safety foundation. I asked the lady to cut to the
chase (knew it was asking for a donation) and finally just declined.
Don't know if it's legitimate or not. I typically don't do
solicitations over the phone, and never if it's a cold call.
Linn
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Rick Galati wrote:
> Has anyone else received a recent phone call supposedly from the AOPA
> asking for a donation? Often citing the AOPA's around the country
> seminars and on-line courses as expensive undertakings needing
> financial support, it all sounded so proper until "Brian" asked me
> to provide him with my credit card number so he could process my
> donation with a minimum of hassle. When I declined and instead
> suggested he send the donation request via snail mail, "Brian"
> expressed a sense of urgency and said my donation should be received
> by the AOPA no later than Sept. 5 and he would send out the donation
> letter immediately. That was several days ago. For being in such a
> rush, I wonder why I have yet to receive an official request from the
> AOPA. Being cynical by nature, I have to wonder if the phone call was
> a legitimate request or just another sophisticated attempt by bottom
> feeders to prey upon the unwary? With the Labor Day weekend upon us,
> my attempts at contacting the AOPA by telephone for confirmation have
> proved fruitless.
>
> Rick Galati RV-6A "Darla"
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Handheld GPS + misc for sale |
I have a question on one of the items but your email address on the web
site and in the header here just bounces.
Email me off list with a valid address and I will contact you.
Thanks, Dick Tasker
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Steve & Denise wrote:
> Anybody want these?
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> http://www.members.kingston.net/sjhdcl/rv_stuff_for_sale.htm
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> do not archive
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> Steve
> RV7A
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| Subject: | RE: [SoCAL-RVlist] VNY FSDO |
--> RV-List message posted by: "Ed Holyoke" <bicyclop@pacbell.net>
Folks,
If you remember last year I had a problem with the VNY FSDO and a memo
that prohibited flights at 4 airports for experimental aircraft.
Apparently the FSDO is narrowing it's interpretation to
experimental/exhibition and not (now) trying to apply it to
experimental/amateur built.
Here's the latest from the EAA:
http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/060830_overflights.html
Keep your ears open. This could still end up affecting us all.
Pax,
Ed Holyoke
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rv-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-rv-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Ed Holyoke
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:42 AM
Subject: RV-List: RE: [SoCAL-RVlist] VNY FSDO
--> RV-List message posted by: "Ed Holyoke" <bicyclop@pacbell.net>
I'm hoping they're at work for all of us. Mark and I got our new oplims
and theoretically we're out of the fight now. I pushed on the EAA and
AOPA to go to work on this because I don't want anybody else to have to
go to the mat with the FAA later. The EAA didn't really need pushing.
They were eager to jump on it and just waiting for our oplims to clear
so those couldn't be held hostage. They have their yearly summit with
the FAA at Oshkosh in January. The memo and differing regional policies
are definitely on the agenda.
EAA rep Randy told me a FSDO horror story about a guy who bought a
homebuilt in southern Florida with 14 hours on it and the phase 1 not
complete. He moved it (disassembled) to northern Florida and applied for
a new test flight area in August. He had been told to send his original
airworthiness certificate and oplims in and they would turn them around
in 2 weeks. They lost the paperwork and he had to send copies (do you
have copies of all your paperwork in a safe place?). Every 2 weeks,
they told him it would be 2 weeks more. As of last week, and the EAA's
intervention on the guy's behalf, they had promised to issue the new
oplims the next day. I haven't heard if they came through. Part of the
problem is that the guy is based in extreme northern Florida and the
Miami FSDO says they can't give him a test area overlapping the Atlanta
FSDO's area. I guess they couldn't pick up the phone and coordinate
something with the other FSDO - no, so the oplims they finally agreed to
issue will force the guy to fly off his time to the south only so he can
remain in Miami's region. This story of bureaucracy run amok is another
example of why the FAA needs to be forced to set some rational national
policy and limit the regional FSDOs' authority.
The AOPA initially seems a little less interested. I got a call back
from a guy there who told me that he had called the FSDO claiming to be
an RV-6 pilot planning a trip into Santa Barbara and wanting to know if
there was going to be a problem. He was assured that there's no problem
and not to worry about the memo. I told the rep that I figure it's all
well and good to say that they won't enforce it, but how about later
when they change their mind about that. I also told him that the real
issue is the local setting of standards which may conflict with those in
other areas and a discriminatory restriction on one category of
aircraft. He said that there probably wouldn't be much happening about
it at AOPA until after the holidays, but that he'd get back to me.
Well, it's out in the open now and the lines are drawn. After they
issued our new oplims, the question in my mind was: did the current FSDO
manager support the former manager's policy or was it just an
unwillingness to deal with changing the policy? It's pretty obvious that
Swanson is not a friend to homebuilders. He isn't going to make it easy
for new homebuilt aircraft in his area. He can't do much about existing
ones so he's not going to fight us on that, although they did try to
hold up our oplims until I screamed.
Doesn't it sound like he's threatening more ramp checks, though? If you
are ramp checked, I bet the inspector can find a way to violate you if
he wants to bad enough. Read your oplims again, folks. Ours, issued in
'98, were definitely more restrictive than the new ones. Make sure that
all your required paperwork is in the plane and correct, just in case.
Pax,
Ed Holyoke
* -----Original Message-----
From: SoCAL-RVlist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SoCAL-RVlist@yahoogroups.com]
* Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:21 AM
Subject: [SoCAL-RVlist] VNY FSDO
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/537-full.html#191233
Looks like the EAA is at work for Ed.
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| Subject: | Re: Connecting Blue Mountain EFIS lite to Pictorial Pilot |
--> RV-List message posted by: "Jim Ellis" <JEllis9847@aol.com>
Blue Mountain Avionics has discovered that the Serial B port on the G3 Lite is
inoperative. Regardless of the settings placed in the Setup window there is no
output from the unit on this pinout. There is no GPSS or NMEA-0183 information
sent even if one selects "none" on the Serial A port.
This means that, in spite of the fact that the Install Manual clearly states that
you can drive a Trutrak autopilot with the G3 using the settings provided,
the G3 Lite efis is incapable at this time of providing the needed information.
BMA has told me that that have looked at the BIOS software and cannot find the
cause of the problem and they are now looking at the hardware as the source of
the malfunction.
Jim Ellis
RV9-A, Flying
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| Subject: | Re: Van's Wheel Fairings |
Charlie,
I used Goodyear because at the time they were readily available to me.
I have not kept up with the airplane tire market, so I cannot recommend
any other brand. I will say, however, that the performance and service
life on my RV8 with the Goodyear Custom III has been excellent.
As near as I can tell, I gained about 5 knots with the Sam James wheel
pants. I flight tested both pants and the James pants are faster.
Dick Martin
RV8 N233M
the fast one
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Kuss
To: rv-list@matronics.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: RV-List: Van's Wheel Fairings
Dick
Two questions.
Can you recommend any other name brand tires besides Goodyear?
What speed gain did you see by using the Sam James wheel pants?
Charlie Kuss
Derrick,
When I built my RV8 in 1999, I experimented with several wheelpant
and tire variations. My objective was to obtain the most speed and the
least drag possible. I found out that when I used any of the various
cheap tires, I needed at least a 1/2 inch clearance around the tire
casing, because when landing etc. the cheap tires would expand and rub
the wheelpant. I solved the problem by installing Goodyear Custom III
tires and tubes. The Custom III series has a much stiffer tred and side
casing and holds its shape even with a hard landing. Note: the lower
(closer to ground) you install the wheel pant, the faster you will go.
I tried Vans pressure recovery pants first and then went to Sam
James pressure recovery pants because they went faster and looked
better.
Good luck with your project.
Dick Martin
RV8 N233M
the fast one
1350 hours - it gets better every day
----- Original Message -----
From: Derrick Aubuchon
To: RV List
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: RV-List: Van's Wheel Fairings
I am replacing (finally!) my original, old style wheel fairings,
for Van's "new" Pressure Recovery fairings.
Any ideas on what works best for a minimal tire-to-faring
clearance around the lower opening?
Thanks,
Derrick L. Aubuchon
RV-4: N184DA (450+ hrs)
Jackson/Westover -Amador County (O70)
n184da@volcano.net
com/Navigator?RV-List
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| Subject: | Re: Van's Wheel Fairings |
--> RV-List message posted by: Doug Gray <dgra1233@bigpond.net.au>
Gained 5 knots against which wheel pants from Vans? PR or the earlier
boxy ones.
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 21:21 -0500, dick martin wrote:
> Charlie,
> I used Goodyear because at the time they were readily available to me.
> I have not kept up with the airplane tire market, so I cannot
> recommend any other brand. I will say, however, that the performance
> and service life on my RV8 with the Goodyear Custom III has been
> excellent.
> As near as I can tell, I gained about 5 knots with the Sam James wheel
> pants. I flight tested both pants and the James pants are faster.
> Dick Martin
> RV8 N233M
>
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| Subject: | Iridite Wanted to Buy |
--> RV-List message posted by: "messydeer" <messydeer@yahoo.com>
I'm looking to buy a couple pounds of iridite from somebody. I've used a gallon
of Alodine and am just getting started. My research on iridite a few months ago
came up with only a few sources. I'd have to buy 10# and pay a lot for shipping.
I'm in Bellingham, WA
If that's not possible, maybe you could let me know of some retail sources?
Thanks,
Dan
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