Geof - I suspect you are right. BTW, I just missed you at Oshkosh. I stopped by the Flight1 booth and spoke with Jim Rhoades. I mentioned that I had followed his posts on several forums including Avsim. He chuckled and said he just finished chatting with another Avsim fan named Geof. I figured it had to be you and that we just missed each other by less than 10 minutes. I took a quick look around the hanger to see if I could find you but no luck. It would have fun to meet in person! Oh well, maybe next year....Oshkosh was a wonderful time. I took my 6 year old daughter and we camped there for 8 nights. There is so much to see and do there. my daughter has not yet caught the aviation bug but loved KidsVenture, the nightly movies (and the free popcorn!) and the Craft tent. So wonderful that they have such a large and enthusiastic group of volunteers to make it possible for people of different interests and ages to have fun. ....Come to think of it, I think it would be an ideal location for an Avsim gathering some year....

Bummer we missed. I was only there the first two days unfortunately.I did also meet Ron from Eaglesoft for the first time who arranged a 30 minute full motion sim ride for me-video here in the avsim video forum. Seeing fsx in a full motion sim with realistic force feed back made me want to get one for the living room....Jim and Ron-great guys and flight sim enthusiasts!As far as your daughter-mine flew with me for years-never showed any interest till 12th grade-then went the other extreme. You just never know....My 22 year old son so far is in the no interest camp though-but who knows..I like your idea about an Avsim gathering there-nothing better than Oshkosh!

After flying the RA Duke for about one month, I'm experiencing unexplained power loss. Firstly, FL240 MP 32", 2500 RPM, FF 114 PPH, IAS 150; everything normal. Thence, gradual power loss over the span of about 45 seconds to less than 14" ! Attempts to correct with mixture changes are futile. After about another 45 seconds, power returns on a gradual increase at about the same rate as the decrease. Assuming this is weather engine related, I'm using ASA with XG/FEX graphics. Now, following and emergency descent to 16 000, think once again normal. This is the second occurrence over two days. Les Parson

Hi Les,One other possibility is to turn on the fuel vent de-icing. I think that is modeled in the Duke.