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		<title>Interesting Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Cessna 421 pilot describes his experiences flying for a small company in the 27&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s.  Link
The last flight of a Cessna 421 Link
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		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/stories/196/</link>
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		<title>Transitioning the LAX Class Bravo Airspace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my trips to the LA area are flights under the Class B airspace to Santa Monica or Riverside. I always use flight following, and I&#8217;m especially glad for it in the LA basin. They&#8217;ll help you navigate around the Class C and D airspace. A few times they&#8217;ve cleared me to climb into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/airspace/351/</link>
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		<title>Checklists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used checklists that you can purchase for planes but haven&#8217;t liked them too much. Since I only fly planes I own, I&#8217;ve gotten into the habit of making detailed checklists that contain a lot of information from the Operating Handbook that I need to know but may forget. I used to print checklists on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/aircraft/327/</link>
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		<title>Cool Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Arthur Godfrey 

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		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/cool-stuff/320/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Monoxide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carbon monoxide isn&#8217;t usually a problem with well-maintained aircraft, however, it&#8217;s enough of a risk that many people use CO monitors to detect concentrations while flying. Most sound an alarm at a preset level and many read the concentration in parts per million (PPM). One of the students brought his monitor and we used it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/safety/303/</link>
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		<title>Electrical Theory &#8211; by Joseph Lucas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Positive ground depends on proper circuit functioning, which is the transmission of negative ions by retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as &#8220;smoke&#8221;..
Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work. We know this to be true because every time one lets the smoke out of an electrical circuit, it stops working. This can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/maintenance/296/</link>
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		<title>Split Master</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your airplane has a split master switch, one half provides current to the alternator field windings and that side can be turned off during engine start to reduce the load on the battery. Once the engine is running, the alternator field side of the master switch can be turned back on to provide electricity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/engines/271/</link>
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		<title>Logbook entry for GPS database updates.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An owner may update the database of a panel-mounted GPS because it falls under preventive maintenance.
Appendix A to Part 43 —Major Alterations, Major Repairs, and Preventive Maintenance
(c) Preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance is limited to the following work, provided it does not involve complex assembly operations: &#8230;
(32) Updating self-contained, front instrument panel-mounted Air Traffic Control (ATC) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/maintenance/267/</link>
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		<title>VOR Radials and Magnetic Variation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get out a sectional and look at the radials that define Victor airways between two VORs. (Note the radial is usually printed just outside the compass rose although sometimes other objects on the chart are in the way and it is inside the compass rose.) Frequently, the two radials are reciprocals, but often they differ—sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.touringmachine.com/Articles/gps/257/</link>
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		<title>Links to Cool Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automotive engines have been tried in several airplanes but with the possible exception of the Mercedes-Benz diesel engines manufactured by Thielert they haven&#8217;t been successful in production aircraft. The experimental market is a different story, This article in Ridelust talks about engines by Porsche (unsuccessful), Subaru (successful), Mazda (successful) and others.
Designers have experimented with flying [...]]]></description>
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