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From: Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net>
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:09:43 -0500
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To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Thanks, Bill.  I would love to meet up to see your plane and meet  
everyone at the EAA chapter, however, in speaking with my wife I've  
been advised that tomorrow is not a good day for me to do that.   
Because of that, I will have to respectfully decline your invite at  
this time.

I read about Blue Mountain and it's too bad really.  It seemed like  
they had a decent avionics system.  I hope you get your equipment back  
from them.  There was a notice posted that they were looking for  
someone to buy the software code and continue development.  The  
thought crossed my mind to look into the possibility of acquiring the  
software and having a go at it, then reality set in.  I know a fair  
amount about Linux, the OS behind that platform, and I've done some  
programming over the years but I'm not proficient at any programming  
language right now.  It's not hard to pick up something new, but it's  
just not something that I've stayed current with.  Of course there's  
other issues to work through as well.  In the end I decided not to  
even start a conversation that I probably couldn't realistically do  
anything about given my present situation.

Cheers,
Ryan


On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Bill Schertz wrote:

> I am located at the Aurora IL airport, have a completed KIS 4 place  
> fiberglass plane with 13B in it, have about 10 hours flight time on  
> it and am currently grounded because my EFIS (Blue Mountain) is out  
> for repair, and they are out of business.
>
> You are welcome to come see my project anytime.  Also, you might  
> want to check out Chapter 153 that meets on the second Friday of  
> each month at the Schaumberg airport.
>
> I am also a member of Chapter 579 at Aurora, and our meeting is  
> tomorrow night (22nd) and includes a safety seminar on runway  
> issues. Check faasafety.gov for details.
>
> If you want to come to the meeting tomorrow night, we could go over  
> to the airport and kibitz on the plane.