Oh Ya, gotta love world travel! After 14 hrs in an aluminum tube flying Detroit to Nagoya, Japan and some 20 hrs of being out of touch with news I am back on line. What is the first e-mail in my inbox, travel warning that North Korea has tested a Hydrogen Bomb! Oh well not much I can do about it now but I will know what the really bright glow in the sky to the west is all about
Can I get a little advice from the brain trust, please? I'm having trouble finding good data to set prices for some gear I need to sell: my 500/4G, 24-70G, 70-200/2.8G (v2), and 80-400G.
Either on-thread or by PM, I'd be grateful for any impact. I'd like to be done with equipment changes by mid-September, so I want to get these all listed ASAP. I try to hit the average market price, and then deliver equipment that is 9 or 10 in condition, if that helps to frame the kind of pricing suggestion I'm looking for. Make sure the buyer is happy.
The URL won't post correctly, you need all the way to the db/ to get there correctly, tried Fred's URL code and it breaks it so that the url takes you back to the first post in this thread
Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
Can I get a little advice from the brain trust, please? I'm having trouble finding good data to set prices for some gear I need to sell: my 500/4G, 24-70G, 70-200/2.8G (v2), and 80-400G.
Either on-thread or by PM, I'd be grateful for any impact. I'd like to be done with equipment changes by mid-September, so I want to get these all listed ASAP. I try to hit the average market price, and then deliver equipment that is 9 or 10 in condition, if that helps to frame the kind of pricing suggestion I'm looking for. Make sure the buyer is happy....Show more →
Decent weather and the spell of the Vampire drew me to the Cleveland show yesterday. Of course, a pesky overcast came along to accompany the Vampire and then promptly went away.
A BEAUTIFUL airplane and I am happy to have finally seen it. Also an incredible performance!
Found some of the gear also on B&S. One of the 80-400's sold for $750!! (THUD) I'm guessing the 200-500 is killing the 80-400. I've got the older version that everyone hated. It's not bad but...
It's quite difficult to get any kind of originality into a photo of the big, popular display acts. Often I find I have to borrow some helpful clouds.....
We completed a 2000nm round trip yesterday to bookend a delightful weekend spent with friends at their island retreat on Lake Huron. The A36 proved itself a marvelous traveling machine, with a nice dose of IMC and a couple of approaches to keep me on my toes. The only excitement was provided by the alternator, which dropped offline at one point when we were between layers; I didn't catch the fact that the battery was draining until the autopilot threw in a zoom climb without warning and the Garmin threw a bunch of errors. Fortunately, after I got the alternator cycled back on everything returned to normal, but it was a real eye-opener.
The first photo shows the weather conditions in Hessel, Michigan on arrival Friday afternoon: autumn has already started in the great north woods.
The second photo shows the first class accommodations in the back of the Bo for Marcia and Luna. They reported that the inflight movie was less than riveting and the service was kind of lame, but otherwise had no complaints.
The last photo shows weather conditions approaching Denver yesterday afternoon: not a cloud in the sky, and so much smoke in the air from the western wildfires that I was really glad to have filed IFR. This was shot from about 2500' above ground, and the only detail you can pick out is a dirt road leading off into the 'distance'.
stevez wrote:
We completed a 2000nm round trip yesterday to bookend a delightful weekend spent with friends at their island retreat on Lake Huron. The A36 proved itself a marvelous traveling machine, with a nice dose of IMC and a couple of approaches to keep me on my toes. The only excitement was provided by the alternator, which dropped offline at one point when we were between layers; I didn't catch the fact that the battery was draining until the autopilot threw in a zoom climb without warning and the Garmin threw a bunch of errors. Fortunately, after I got the alternator cycled back on everything returned to normal, but it was a real eye-opener.
The first photo shows the weather conditions in Hessel, Michigan on arrival Friday afternoon: autumn has already started in the great north woods.
The second photo shows the first class accommodations in the back of the Bo for Marcia and Luna. They reported that the inflight movie was less than riveting and the service was kind of lame, but otherwise had no complaints.
The last photo shows weather conditions approaching Denver yesterday afternoon: not a cloud in the sky, and so much smoke in the air from the western wildfires that I was really glad to have filed IFR. This was shot from about 2500' above ground, and the only detail you can pick out is a dirt road leading off into the 'distance'. ...Show more →
Nice trip Steve - er - I mean ZZPops.
I see Luna has the Flight Attendants well trained! Bit worrying about the alternator though. I can understand it going off line for a whole bunch of reasons, but the coming back again - whilst very welcome - might be a bit difficult to fault find. Any clues yet? Anyway, thank goodness for magnetos!
JDE1 wrote:
Decent weather and the spell of the Vampire drew me to the Cleveland show yesterday. Of course, a pesky overcast came along to accompany the Vampire and then promptly went away.
A BEAUTIFUL airplane and I am happy to have finally seen it. Also an incredible performance!
Very cool, but that one is still on my 'to see' list. I ended up not going to the show at all this year. Spent some time with relatives that I very rarely see any more since we're scattered all over the country. This year certainly was a mixed bag of weather for the show!
Pray for our fellow countrymen/women in Florida. Looks like they will need it. 
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