---------------------------------------------------------- RV-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 09/02/06: 12 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 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) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:38:09 AM PST US From: Rick Galati 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" ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:09:38 AM PST US From: Ron Lee Subject: Re: RV-List: AOPA Solicitation? --> RV-List message posted by: Ron Lee 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 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:40:57 AM PST US From: "David Burton" Subject: RV-List: TIS? 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 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 08:28:44 AM PST US From: "Smitty" Subject: Re: RV-List: 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" ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 09:23:26 AM PST US From: "Steve & Denise" Subject: RV-List: Handheld GPS + misc for sale Anybody want these? http://www.members.kingston.net/sjhdcl/rv_stuff_for_sale.htm do not archive Steve RV7A ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 09:26:05 AM PST US From: linn Walters Subject: Re: RV-List: 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 do not archive 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" > > ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 11:11:26 AM PST US From: "Richard E. Tasker" Subject: Re: RV-List: 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 Do not archive Steve & Denise wrote: > Anybody want these? > > http://www.members.kingston.net/sjhdcl/rv_stuff_for_sale.htm > > do not archive > > Steve > RV7A > > >* > > >* > -- Please Note: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message. We do concede, however, that a significant number of electrons may have been temporarily inconvenienced. -- ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 11:27:03 AM PST US From: "Ed Holyoke" Subject: RE: RV-List: RE: [SoCAL-RVlist] VNY FSDO --> RV-List message posted by: "Ed Holyoke" 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" 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. _____ * Visit your group "SoCAL-RVlist " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SoCAL-RVlist-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Terms of Service. _____ ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 01:14:00 PM PST US Subject: RV-List: Re: Connecting Blue Mountain EFIS lite to Pictorial Pilot From: "Jim Ellis" --> RV-List message posted by: "Jim Ellis" 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 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=59088#59088 ________________________________ Message 10 ____________________________________ Time: 07:23:04 PM PST US From: "dick martin" Subject: Re: RV-List: 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 ________________________________ Message 11 ____________________________________ Time: 10:06:21 PM PST US Subject: Re: RV-List: Van's Wheel Fairings From: Doug Gray --> RV-List message posted by: Doug Gray 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 > ________________________________ Message 12 ____________________________________ Time: 11:02:16 PM PST US Subject: RV-List: Iridite Wanted to Buy From: "messydeer" --> RV-List message posted by: "messydeer" 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 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=59154#59154