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    Posted: 26 May 2021 at 5:39am
Speaking of timing....this morning's lunar eclipse, snapped with a smartphone, getting started:
r･pod 171 gone but not forgotten!
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DEAL! I love it when a plan comes together!

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Posts: 1676 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2021 at 9:07pm
You hold my beer and I'll do the first part.

I'll hold your beer and you do the second part...and we'll plug it in!

Deal? Smile

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Oops, here is the 2nd link...darn phat thumbs and hockey playoffs don't mix!

http://www.micro-air.com/kb-easystart/cat_installation.cfm
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Here is the link to a video showing the install. I saved it for myself as I bought an EasyStart for our trailer as well...for when it finally arrives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soP0uZFd0nQ&feature=emb_rel_end

And a 2nd link that connects to the easy start knowledge bank!

A good start and of course, we can come back here if and when required.

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Posts: 1676 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2021 at 8:35pm
Before we get in trouble and bringing this back on track..

I ordered the MicroAir EasyStart 364 for my 178 to go with my new Honda EU2200i. I understand I may have not needed to, but seems like a good thing. I'm sure you folks will tell me if I did right and help me get it wired up right. I didn't order the "connection kit". I got boxes of connectors and crimpers that should work, right?

Hey, so who has gone with an extended tank option with their Honda?

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I say nothing...as that can get me in trouble!
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Bad enough trying to take a sight on a rolling boat. Can't imaging trying to get a fix in a bouncing plane! You're right, celestial nav is a fabulous and still useful skill! 

Ya know, one thing that has stuck with me through all my years of being without "position fixes" is a sense of where I am. Dead reckoning. You get a feel of wind and wave and current and and sometimes temperature and how fast you are moving. You know where the sun is and where it is moving.  You plot your position every hour or few based on that. Sometimes you just do it it your head. Can be surprisingly accurate. It's not rocket science. Been done for centuries.

Maybe it's just the folks I travel with, but I'm really surprised how people around me have such a bad sense of position/direction - even when the sun is shining in her their face! LOL

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It flashed me back to my days working on C130's as well...I worked on them (and a couple other types at the same time)...they used to train new Air Force navigators how to navigate in C130's and that included special sextants that could work through the overhead cockpit access hatch that had a special attachment for it while in flight.

That is a good skill to have if all goes South and all our fancy electronics are suddenly unavailable. Also still handy to know when flying in the far north but maybe that is all fixed up now with satellites and GPS coverage.

The pilots could hear the baby navs struggling and would try to help out on the intercom saying things to the effect of,,,"I have never seen Churchill from this angle before ...".

Ahhh, funny stuff eh?'

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This was just a such a major flashback, in a different way, than it was for you Andy.

For a few years in the 80's I delivered/captained yachts up and down the coast, the Bahamas and the GOM. I was never good at celestial. Maybe a noon shot or full moon. I would rely on dead reckoning for the most, which I was very good at, LORAN which was sketchy or RDF which a cheap AM radio worked pretty well. We didn't have GPS and SAT nav was scarce.

The (usually) most accurate navigation was freighter fixes. We would see a super tanker or other ship on the horizon. Ask them where they were ( position fix ) and there ya go! Kinda like hitch hiking on the high seas! I was doing that in my twenties and early thirties so you can understand. LOL.

I should stop now..

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