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#VansAircraft came out with a fleet-wide service bulletin to install egress hammers. Kind of a no-brainer, but I’ll admit to never having thought of this (fire extinguisher yes, egress hammer, no). https://www.vansaircraft.com/service-information-and-revisions/sb-00079/
This shouldn’t be hard to comply with - Vans sells these for $25 each, and assuming they actually ship relatively quickly (big if, for real. I see these are already on backorder), the annoying part is just figuring out where and how to mount it. Might be able to rivet some velcro straps to the center console and have that be the install method?
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#VansAircraft came out with a fleet-wide service bulletin to install egress hammers. Kind of a no-brainer, but I’ll admit to never having thought of this (fire extinguisher yes, egress hammer, no). https://www.vansaircraft.com/service-information-and-revisions/sb-00079/
This shouldn’t be hard to comply with - Vans sells these for $25 each, and assuming they actually ship relatively quickly (big if, for real. I see these are already on backorder), the annoying part is just figuring out where and how to mount it. Might be able to rivet some velcro straps to the center console and have that be the install method?
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#VansAircraft came out with a fleet-wide service bulletin to install egress hammers. Kind of a no-brainer, but I’ll admit to never having thought of this (fire extinguisher yes, egress hammer, no). https://www.vansaircraft.com/service-information-and-revisions/sb-00079/
This shouldn’t be hard to comply with - Vans sells these for $25 each, and assuming they actually ship relatively quickly (big if, for real. I see these are already on backorder), the annoying part is just figuring out where and how to mount it. Might be able to rivet some velcro straps to the center console and have that be the install method?
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#VansAircraft came out with a fleet-wide service bulletin to install egress hammers. Kind of a no-brainer, but I’ll admit to never having thought of this (fire extinguisher yes, egress hammer, no). https://www.vansaircraft.com/service-information-and-revisions/sb-00079/
This shouldn’t be hard to comply with - Vans sells these for $25 each, and assuming they actually ship relatively quickly (big if, for real. I see these are already on backorder), the annoying part is just figuring out where and how to mount it. Might be able to rivet some velcro straps to the center console and have that be the install method?
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#VansAircraft came out with a fleet-wide service bulletin to install egress hammers. Kind of a no-brainer, but I’ll admit to never having thought of this (fire extinguisher yes, egress hammer, no). https://www.vansaircraft.com/service-information-and-revisions/sb-00079/
This shouldn’t be hard to comply with - Vans sells these for $25 each, and assuming they actually ship relatively quickly (big if, for real. I see these are already on backorder), the annoying part is just figuring out where and how to mount it. Might be able to rivet some velcro straps to the center console and have that be the install method?
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CW: Old woman yells at SwiftUI
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There’s a bunch of other issues that were found during this inspection. Nothing as big as the governor issue, though. Just a bunch of minor issues that are getting fixed before they become big issues. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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There’s a bunch of other issues that were found during this inspection. Nothing as big as the governor issue, though. Just a bunch of minor issues that are getting fixed before they become big issues. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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There’s a bunch of other issues that were found during this inspection. Nothing as big as the governor issue, though. Just a bunch of minor issues that are getting fixed before they become big issues. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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There’s a bunch of other issues that were found during this inspection. Nothing as big as the governor issue, though. Just a bunch of minor issues that are getting fixed before they become big issues. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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There’s a bunch of other issues that were found during this inspection. Nothing as big as the governor issue, though. Just a bunch of minor issues that are getting fixed before they become big issues. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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The symptom here was that the governor was slow to respond to changes in rpm. Notably, with prop full forward, it would allow you to exceed redline. Properly functioning governors aren’t supposed to allow that. Despite having a complex endorsement, I had either forgotten or never learned of this. I thought this was normal until CFI pointed it out to me.
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The symptom here was that the governor was slow to respond to changes in rpm. Notably, with prop full forward, it would allow you to exceed redline. Properly functioning governors aren’t supposed to allow that. Despite having a complex endorsement, I had either forgotten or never learned of this. I thought this was normal until CFI pointed it out to me.
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The symptom here was that the governor was slow to respond to changes in rpm. Notably, with prop full forward, it would allow you to exceed redline. Properly functioning governors aren’t supposed to allow that. Despite having a complex endorsement, I had either forgotten or never learned of this. I thought this was normal until CFI pointed it out to me.
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The symptom here was that the governor was slow to respond to changes in rpm. Notably, with prop full forward, it would allow you to exceed redline. Properly functioning governors aren’t supposed to allow that. Despite having a complex endorsement, I had either forgotten or never learned of this. I thought this was normal until CFI pointed it out to me.
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The symptom here was that the governor was slow to respond to changes in rpm. Notably, with prop full forward, it would allow you to exceed redline. Properly functioning governors aren’t supposed to allow that. Despite having a complex endorsement, I had either forgotten or never learned of this. I thought this was normal until CFI pointed it out to me.
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Oh joy. I need to get my prop governor overhauled. At least it’s not the entire engine getting overhauled. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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Oh joy. I need to get my prop governor overhauled. At least it’s not the entire engine getting overhauled. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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Oh joy. I need to get my prop governor overhauled. At least it’s not the entire engine getting overhauled. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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Oh joy. I need to get my prop governor overhauled. At least it’s not the entire engine getting overhauled. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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Oh joy. I need to get my prop governor overhauled. At least it’s not the entire engine getting overhauled. #aviation #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership
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Interop between XCTest and Swift Testing? In the economy? It's more likely than you think.
Legitimately, I'm really excited for this. This'll enable much more consistent set of tooling that can easily be used in Swift Testing and in XCTest. It'll also make migrating from XCTest to Swift Testing much more simpler and much safer.
Go leave feedback at https://forums.swift.org/t/st-0021-targeted-interoperability-between-swift-testing-and-xctest/84965
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CW: General Aviation drama
Last week, the AOPA (airplane owners and pilots association) board sacked now-former CEO Darren Pleasance after ~a year in the role. Claiming they reached a mutual decision driven by the fact that Pleasance lives in Bend, OR, and they want someone closer to AOPA headquarters in Maryland.
To be explicit, this entire thing is fucking bullshit. Quite frankly, Pleasance is the best CEO AOPA has had in years. He’s helped advocate for much needed change in the aviation community: pushing for unleaded fuel (yes, it’s the mid 2020s and most small aircraft still burn leaded fuel), advocating for mental health reform, use-of-ads-b reform (trying to get it so that it can’t be used for fees and such), and otherwise working to grow GA by meeting with pilots and working to address their actual needs.
This is in very stark contrast to previous CEOs who seemed much more like they were just pushing to make it so existing aviators could keep flying as they got older (and maybe shouldn’t be flying anymore?), and were otherwise uninspiring leaders.
Quite frankly, I’d like to see those in the board responsible for this change to be fired or otherwise forced to resign. Barring that, I’d like Pleasance reinstated.
Like, I am a member of AOPA solely because it’s a way to support a friend who writes for them. But I have felt much better represented by EAA (experimental aircraft association), of which I am very happily a member, because they’re actually working to do the job AOPA should also be doing.
You bet your ass I’ll be sending AOPA a letter about this bullshit.
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Like most GA aircraft, my plane has a very loud interior. Whenever I fly, my watch fairly constantly warns me about excessive noise levels. Usually 95 db, occasionally I see 100 db. Noise cancelling headsets are basically required to be in the aircraft while the engine's running. But even then, the noise is still noticeable.
Searching on the vansairforce forums (<3 old school forums), it seems that a lot of the cause of excessive cabin noise is basically panels vibrating against each other, and adding soundproofing material (tape, foam, etc.) helps to massively reduce the noise. The problem then becomes an optimization problem of where to apply the soundproofing to maximize effect while minimizing weight.
I'm thinking of taping a bunch of cheap mics to various spots in the airplane, recording the sound amplitude to try to figure this out. I'm hoping to be able to achieve a noticeable decrease in sound levels doing this.
Of course, I'll also decrease sound levels by just adding carpet to various panels, which I want to do anyway (my cabin is spartan). But I also want to see what the combined improvement will be.
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My friend @cyanoacry (much more active on bluesky, @cyanoacry.bluesky.social) has a blog about the kinds of thing he gets up to with his Rutan Defiant. Yesterday, he posted a highlights of 2025, which included 2 live streams while flying! Plenty of people record and publish their flights after the fact, not that many livestream them!
https://cyanoacry.substack.com/p/defiant-hijinks-dec-2025-part-2
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Short final, runway 17, touch and go.
From a flight at the beginning of the month. 360 cameras are fun.
You’ll note that my nose wheel does not touch the ground during this. The nosegear variants of the Vans RVs are known to be rather weak and prone to collapse. I have the anti-splat nose reinforcement mod, and I was still advised to put as little weight on the nosegear as possible.
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I finished and released a new video on the state of electric aviation! It’s been a labor of love for the past 4 months, and I hope you all enjoy it!
If you’d like read this rather than watch a 24 minute video, I have the transcript up at https://knowledge.rachelbrindle.com/videos/electric-aviation-viability/index.html
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I finished and released a new video on the state of electric aviation! It’s been a labor of love for the past 4 months, and I hope you all enjoy it!
If you’d like read this rather than watch a 24 minute video, I have the transcript up at https://knowledge.rachelbrindle.com/videos/electric-aviation-viability/index.html
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I finished and released a new video on the state of electric aviation! It’s been a labor of love for the past 4 months, and I hope you all enjoy it!
If you’d like read this rather than watch a 24 minute video, I have the transcript up at https://knowledge.rachelbrindle.com/videos/electric-aviation-viability/index.html
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I finished and released a new video on the state of electric aviation! It’s been a labor of love for the past 4 months, and I hope you all enjoy it!
If you’d like read this rather than watch a 24 minute video, I have the transcript up at https://knowledge.rachelbrindle.com/videos/electric-aviation-viability/index.html