by JT Finnell | Jan 17, 2022 | Recent News
Have microsoft flight simulator and would like to practice various IFR approaches. Anyone have some experience here that I could lean on? Thanks, JT
by Jim David | Apr 10, 2021 | Recent News
N9421D went up for sale on 4/1/2021. As of yesterday we signed a purchase agreement to sell our Cessna 172RG Cutlass to Jeff Air Pilot Services in Greenwood Indiana. Closing is expected to take place early next week, 4/12 or 4/13. We plan to replace this aircraft with...
by Jim David | Mar 12, 2020 | Recent News
We’ve been running a “statistics” app on our website since I redid it a few years ago. Some of the stats are interesting, in my opinion. First, here’s the number of page hits and different visitors (discrete IP addresses) that we’ve had visiting our site. Note that I...
by | Dec 22, 2019 | Recent News
Is there someplace to plug in an iPad to charge it in 182SV?
by Jim David | Apr 18, 2019 | Recent News
One of the items that came out of our annual board meeting in early February was the desire to develop Mission, Vision and Core Values Statements for our club. These “ideals” describe who we want to be (vision), what we are doing to get there (mission) and...
by Jim David | Apr 3, 2019 | Recent News
Garmin G5 EFIS I was able to fly N5168V from MQJ back to EYE after the new Garmin G5 EFIS was installed. It is one lovely instrument. It comes alive as soon as the master switch is turned on, and goes through a short “boot” and self-test process. In a few seconds it...
by Jim David | Feb 21, 2019 | Recent News
Tobin Greensweig took N9421D down to Grand Cayman a few weeks ago, and in our February meeting he gave a nice report about the trip. Here’s the video that I recorded of his report. ...
by Jim David | Feb 18, 2019 | Recent News
Our newly-minted maintenance officer, Michael Turik, has been busy since he was elected in December. He and our club secretary, Bill Smith have resurrected, revived and reworked a maintenance tracking spreadsheet for all of our aircraft. We’ve posted a read-only...
by Jim David | Dec 10, 2018 | Recent News
Tonight’s club meeting has 2 significant agenda items that may be of interest to the club members. First, we vote to accept the recent changes to the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and Rules document (ABR). The changes were fairly minor, and they are...
by Jim David | Oct 1, 2018 | Recent News
Saturday, 9/29, we held the Sky-Vu picnic in the Cirrus’ hangar at UMP. We estimate about 55 attendees, and all seemed to have a great time. We also assembled all 5 of the Sky-Vu aircraft on the ramp at UMP for a photo shoot. I’ve created a...
by Jim David | Jun 7, 2018 | Recent News
Well, it took about 160 man-hours, but we’ve finished the interior upgrade on 21D. I think Ron Diamond, Bill Smith and I are all in agreement that the Airtex materials are top-notch. Everything fit very well. The sidewall panels were challenging to fit, cut,...
by Jim David | Jun 3, 2018 | Recent News
Ron Diamond, Bill Smith and I are about 70 man-hours into the upgrade of 21D’s interior. We completed the tear-out, and last night we finished the seats. They look GREAT! They aren’t perfect, but they are darn close. Additional thanks to Jon Gillam for repairing and...
by Jim David | Apr 19, 2018 | Recent News
Hey Sky-Vu members! Log in to the web site and check out the new pages that we’ve created for the club officers and the club approved instructors. These pages are still under construction, but as we are able to fill in the details, you will be able to get to...
by Jim David | Feb 15, 2018 | Recent News
Hey Guys! Schedule Master has been working with a new “front end” user interface for their scheduling page for quite some time. You may have played with it, as it has been available as a “beta” interface over the last year or so. I’ve...
by Jim David | Jan 26, 2018 | Recent News
We’ve ordered the interior materials for the seats, floor and walls of in N9421D. The picture above represents the colors and materials that were chosen for this upgrade. One difference is that we’ve chosen to go with vinyl flooring in the foot-traffic...
by Jim David | Jan 26, 2018 | Recent News
Most of you probably already know that we recently completed the avionics upgrades in N716CD to bring her up to ADS-B compliance as we’ve done with the rest of the fleet. This involved replacing the Mode-S transponder with a Garmin GTX 345 ADS-B compliant...
by Jim David | Jan 12, 2018 | Recent News
Well, guys…it’s happening. We have placed the order for the new interior (seats, wall panels and carpet) for N9421D!! We are expecting delivery of the materials in about 10 weeks and intend to do the bulk of the install during the annual in late March....
by Jim David | Jan 9, 2018 | Recent News
Update – 4/11/2018 – Both units were sold back in January. We are getting an occasional “hit” on these through web searches…guys emailing to ask if we still have them. We do not, they’ve been sold. Sorry!! Hey Guys! N716CD is in...
by Jim David | Dec 22, 2017 | Recent News
Hey Guys, In case you haven’t noticed, N716CD has been scheduled for its avionics upgrade starting on January 3rd. Both of the Garmin GNS 430W units will be replaced with Garmin GTN 650 GPS navigators (exactly like the ones in 68V, 21D and 2SV). We will also be...
by Jim David | Oct 20, 2017 | Recent News
Warm welcomes to Tom Ronan and Alex Stark, who represent our 69th and 70th Sky-Vu members. Both were oriented this week and are excited about joining us! Tom is a private pilot who has been out of flying for a couple of years and is anxious to get back into the...
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