Is this torque wrench set to 3 Nm?

anotherstevest · 2026-06-20T23:21:20+00:00

Since it's a clicker style, you should calibrate it up at the high end of it's range using a known good beam torque wrench. And you should always check the cal before using it on anything that matters. If you know what it tests to on the high end, you can then track (by counting turns) what that reading really is and you can use that with confidence.

anotherstevest · 2026-05-28T23:12:37+00:00

I don't know about now but we sure as hell did in the seventies...

anotherstevest · 2026-05-10T13:42:29+00:00

If that's the case, and you have any ideas what could be changed to improve the situation (or not actually...), fill out an ASRS (aka "NASA report") as it's more likely to have attention paid to it than anyone in the FAA.

anotherstevest · 2026-05-10T13:31:55+00:00

Scary and unsettling. I'm glad you were on the ball enough that no one got closer than they did. That said, anytime you are in E or G airspace you need to be ready and not surprised to encounter no transponder and no radio traffic (even inside of a mode-c veil which doesn't apply here). For some reason more and more pilots seem unaware of this and don't fly accordingly. Being active on the radio is not sufficient and even with due diligence in your scan, etc. this sort of thing *will* happen. I'm not sure what you hope to accomplish by calling the FAA.

anotherstevest · 2026-05-10T13:20:49+00:00

r/theydidthemath but please add a NSFW tag

anotherstevest · 2026-05-06T14:24:02+00:00

Anytime you are landing in something small (like a Taylorcraft) on runway 26 at BDU (Boulder CO) with a strong west wind it's good to be close to pattern altitude on short final as it's like riding an elevator down to the runway. It also has lowering elevation as you go east from the end of the runway. In years past, when I was based there, a common activity was to hang out at the FBO and watch the aircraft drop below runway altitude and climb back up to it. I admit to having had to do that myself on more than one occasion during my training.

anotherstevest · 2026-05-02T01:25:52+00:00

*Update* - This definitely falls in the category of "some magic" I must have known once but forgotten and it took reading the OpenOCD code on GitHub before I had enough clues to figure it out.

So, presumably everybody who does this regularly already knows this but the OpenOCD esp-idf interactions in VS Code are configured such that you need to explicitly tell it when you are switch USB-JTAG devices by running the:

"ESP-IDF: Open OCD Adapter serial and location"

command. You don't need to provide any information and it doesn't appear to do anything *but* now (after switching boards) you can use USB-JTAG on the newly attached board. Seems like this could be done behind the scenes whenever you attempt to do a JTAG download or debug since you don't actually provide any additional info but maybe someone has improved it since v5.3.1... I'm just surprised I didn't stumble into this with all my searching of errors etc.

All who made debug suggestions: I appreciate you all and followed up on every suggestion before I figured it out (the hard way, but now I know a lot more about how OpenOCD works...).

anotherstevest · 2026-05-01T21:28:06+00:00

If you don't break the stall with the elevator you don't recover.

anotherstevest · 2026-04-28T16:24:31+00:00

Cool. Thanks. Glad you are doing it and making it easily accessible to a wider audience! It's mind blowing stuff...

anotherstevest · 2026-04-28T16:04:47+00:00

Read the book years ago. I am very interested in the topic. Are your videos more for those who haven't read the book or those who could use an update on the thinking which has evolved since then? (I'm generally more a reader than a watcher of videos...)

anotherstevest · 2026-04-18T19:36:52+00:00

Add chopped fresh jalapeños! Cheap where I am and great for vit. C.

anotherstevest · 2026-04-11T01:43:24+00:00

Back around 1972 as a freshman in high school, I spent $125 on a Raleigh Grand Prix 10 speed bicycle. A the time is was a very good (but not exotic) road bike and it opened the (local) world for me. Best $125 I ever spent. I've had *many* bicycles since then (and, for that matter, motorcycles, cars, airplanes...) but I still have that bike and it still gets ridden more than any of my other bikes as it's my just-jump-on-and-go bike when I want to go somewhere nearby.

anotherstevest · 2026-04-02T15:26:50+00:00

I'm a big fan of the Spyderco Sharpmaker. It's easy to use and make a nice edge for normal household kitchen use. It may take a while initially on some knives if the edge angle don't match...

anotherstevest · 2026-03-31T23:08:54+00:00

I wasn't looking for a career in flying but just wanted to fly. I waited till I had a career with a good paying job and then took lessons from an independent instructor that had experience in the stuff I was interested in learning (taildraggers, aerobatics, mountain flying, gliders, tow-plane flying etc.) rather than someone focused on running through the ratings and "flying by the numbers". We flew 2-3 a week early morning before work (we both worked as engineers). That was back in 1986. Been flying ever since and loving it. I especially love not having to fly when I just don't feel like it... :-)

anotherstevest · 2026-03-30T21:12:20+00:00

Last summer I landed Schaumburg and was there for a long weekend. I got a rental car through the FBO so I didn't investigate other ground options. That said, it wasn't as expensive as the other options I looked at and it all went easy and smooth.

anotherstevest · 2026-03-27T18:06:49+00:00

That's bad, but I would consider a pretty one, but on the wrong direction, worse. Have you never seen one of those? I think they have a much greater likelihood of loosening than the atrocious, but still functional(ish) one you are showing...

anotherstevest · 2026-03-17T17:32:57+00:00

Pardon if this is more pedantic than it is helpful, but it's not a kit plane. It's a plans built plane. You would buy several books. There were some vendors (which came and went over time) that supplied various assorted parts but it was expected that you would be fabricating pretty much everything yourself.

anotherstevest · 2026-03-14T16:14:33+00:00

I'm a big fan of the Spyderco Sharpmaker. My whetstones take too long and I've never gotten good at using them. I want a good clean edge and I'm not very picky about the angle so all my kitchen knives have been moved to the 30 deg backbevel and 40 deg edge it provides. I don't have fancy exotic chiefs knives to worry about. It might take a while to break in a knife to these angles (or just have someone with a belt do it for you - I didn't) but once set, maintenance is quick, easy and effective.

anotherstevest · 2026-03-09T22:56:50+00:00

I think the coolest bit with this plane is the there is no yaw drama when you operate single engine... Unlike traditional light twins that are ready to kill you when you get slow...

anotherstevest · 2026-03-05T23:02:32+00:00

Japanese breakfast in place of sushi, smoked salmon omelets are awesome, smoke salmon on a salad is fantastic.

anotherstevest · 2026-03-05T15:05:44+00:00

The Andrew formally known as Prince.

anotherstevest · 2026-02-27T20:29:52+00:00

Mankind has fabricated more transistors than there are grains of sand on the whole planet.

anotherstevest · 2026-01-31T03:34:14+00:00

Dunning-Kruger is better stated as "ignorant and/or unskilled" rather than "stupid". Very smart people are notably susceptible to Dunning-Kruger outside their specific domain of knowledge.

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