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  1. Dana

    MOSAIC update

    Looks like not until 2025 at least... https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mosaic-final-rule-now-expected-in-2025/
  2. Dana

    Small Continental parts availability?

    What's the parts situation these days for the old small Continentals? I'm looking at an airplane that has a C-85-12. I had an A-65 in my T-Craft but that was 30 years ago... is it any worse than the Lycoming O-290 I have on my current plane?
  3. Dana

    Time to move on...

    I never thought I'd have to write this, but after a great 5½ years it looks like I'm going to have to sell my Hatz. Short version is I had a heart attack last Sunday, clear out of the blue with no risk factors. Passed out and stopped breathing, and only because of my wife's quick thinking and...
  4. Dana

    Puzzling out my electrical system

    I'm trying to puzzle out the electrical system in my Hatz. Specifically, why I'm having trouble cranking the engine (O-290, old style Delco starter, Odyssey PC680 battery). The battery was new this past fall, but I'm suspecting there may be multiple issues. The battery is behind the seat, the...
  5. Dana

    "Sky Savant" Ron W. and the Daily Mail

    Our own Ron @Wanttaja is famous (with honorable mention to @Marc Zeitlin ). Kudos to Ron to keeping the Daily Mail mostly honest, quoting Ron as a "sky savant" of the "burgeoning subculture" of homebuilt airplanes...
  6. Dana

    Bah Humbug... and Merry Christmas

    The forecast for early afternoon today was 52°, light winds, and partly cloudy... for a brief time between IFR weather. At noon at the house, the skies turned blue, the sun came out, good open cockpit weather and no family obligations for the afternoon, so I headed to the airport 4½ miles...
  7. Dana

    4th annual Waterbury Airport N41 in CT Fall Fly In, 10/6-9/23

    This was an awesome event last year, with 125 aircraft of all types: More info here.
  8. Dana

    Northeast: Crow Island fly-in 8/11-13 2023

    Crow Island (8MA4) is a 2300' grass strip in Massachusetts. I've never been there but my buddies say it's a good one. Camping, food, live music. I plan to arrive Friday afternoon. http://www.crowislandairpark.com/
  9. Dana

    Lycoming hoses?

    Probably a stupid question, but... i need to replace the induction and cylinder oil drain hoses on my O-290-D. Aircraft Spruce carries both, of course. However, the oil drain hose is $8.50 for a piece of 3/8" hose under 2" long ($10.75 for the "official" Lycoming part)! Is there any reason I...
  10. Dana

    Oil cooler shutter install

    I'm in the process of installing a shutter to help control my oil temps (Hatz with an O-290-D engine). It will be operated with a push-pull cable. The question of the moment is whether it should be pull to open or pull to close, and why? In cold temperatures (below 55F or so) it needs to be...
  11. Dana

    Alternator issue

    I'm looking into the charging system in my Hatz. I was having trouble starting; the trouble seems to have been fixed by replacing the battery, but I’m still not sure about the rest of the system. The charging voltage is 14.2-14.3 volts, which is normal, but the AGM batteries (Odyssey PC680)...
  12. Dana

    Cheat River fly-in trip report

    Wow. That’s all I can say. Well, maybe I can say a little more. I flew my Hatz to the Cheat Island fly-in this past weekend. This was at an uncharted private airstrip on an island in the Cheat River near Rowlesburg, WV. The owner puts on this event twice a year, and provides ferry service...
  13. Dana

    Bad battery... or ???

    Last winter the battery (3 year old Odyssey PC680) in my Hatz was getting weak and had to be jumpstarted a couple of times, so I bought a new battery in May. But as the weather warmed, it always started, even if it seemed to be struggling, so I never got around to installing the new one. Come...
  14. Dana

    OT: Design load factor for road vehicles?

    Anybody know what kind of g-loads cars and trucks are designed for? Easy to find design load factors for the various aircraft categories, not so much for road vehicles. I've seen numbers of 3g vertical for race cars, and another site said 3.7g at the tire patch for trucks (5g for offroad), but...
  15. Dana

    FAA dropping detail from charts

    This came up over on POA: Not only is the FAA going to stop providing foreign detail beyond the Canadian or Mexican border shows on sectional charts, also, "Effective November 3, 2023, Visual Flight Rules (VFR) aeronautical charts will no longer make reference to emergency value in private...
  16. Dana

    Aviation news from 90 years ago

    OK, 90 years and 4 days, 9/28/1932, I forgot to post this on Friday... we had a birthday party for my 90 year old aunt, and they had a copy of the newspaper from the day she was born... on the front page there were a couple of aviation items. 14 planes caught in bad weather, 4 damaged, and...
  17. Dana

    Northeast: Waterbury, CT 10/21-23 2022

    Fly-in this weekend at Waterbury, CT. Camping, food, grass runways, what's not to like? And the long range forecast is looking good... More at 3rd annual Waterbury Airport N41 in CT Fall Fly In
  18. Dana

    Flying and hiking, biplane style

    I had a really nice trip in the Hatz this weekend. It was a trip I’ve wanted to do for over thirty years. I got into serious backpacking a few years after learning to fly and buying a Taylorcraft My first few multi-day backpacking trips were in the Adirondacks, where I discovered that Marcy...
  19. Dana

    G100UL Approved

    The FAA finally approved a fleetwide STC for GAMI's 100UL avgas. Now we'll see how long it takes to implement... https://www.avweb.com/ownership/fuel-news/gami-unleaded-avgas-stcs-approved-for-ga-piston-fleet/
  20. Dana

    gauge accuracy

    How accurate should I expect an engine gauge be? 1%? 2% 5%? Never had any trouble with the oil temp gauge in my Hatz until yesterday, when it maxed out at 150° on a hot day when it should have been at least 190°, as it was on the previous flight. Can't think of any scenario that would make...
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