On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:18:39 -0800, "Jim Burns" wrote: A friend of mine, a many thousand hour ATP, CFII, freight runner that flies a Beech 99 sent me the story below.... he makes some great points about transitioning from the gauges to visual and not seeing what you...

According to an article in the November 2004 edition of Scientific American, the GPS satellites' clocks have a 7 microsec per day effect due to relativistic motion and a 45 microsec per day effect due to the lower gravity in orbit. The two effects partially cancel, so the net adjustment is 38...

After struggling with my EchoFlight Orbcom datalink, I gave up. Forty minute nexrad data, when it worked at all, didn't help me much. Lo and behold, they now have a Wxworx interface, which I just installed today. Within two minutes I have all the weather data in the entire U.S. in high-res...

With LAAS in limbo, FAA buys more ILSs by John Sheridan The FAA is expected to announce a major ILS contract award within the next 90 days, according to agency insiders. As currently written, the contract will call for the purchase and installation of as many as 615 instrument landing systems...

Blakey Era Of Failure The FAA, fresh off the fiasco that is known by it's formal name---the Blakey Era Of Failure--- is clinging to the last lifeboat left from her titanic voyage. In this press release, the Failed Aviation Administration crows that they are going to require an "INITIAL" set...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzTgKjGgWtY "God is watching you" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_CN8112J8 "Fall landing at KMBO - my best landing at KMBO" http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=BeechSundowner is where all the videos are housed. I am keeping my channel "aviation themed" as much as...

That is NOT a C-130 Hercules. It's a Russian IL-???

It is apparently not possible to communicate with you directly, so let me explain how I got the 1.4 miles of protected airspace on the non-maneuvering side of procedure turn airspace, and apologize for being wrong...the protected airspace is 4.0 miles wide, giving the pilot even less reason to work...

Is there any desktop application that runs as a GUI under Windows that would give me a database of the newer WAAS GPS approaches (e.g., LNAV + V, LPV, etc)? I do NOT need currency on this. A one time snapshot that I could update maybe once a year would be fine. I definitely do not want...

I saw this again on Discovery Wings today, and I think I picked up on the following: The controller (tower?) says: "QNH one-zero-zero-eight" This is the local altimeter setting in hPa (hecto Pascal) Lindbergh replies: "three-zero-zero-eight" Which would be the "normal" / US setting, in inches of...

I recently got a tablet PC, HP TC1100, and a little bluetooth GPS receiver to go with it. Rode in the back seat of an Arrow this afternoon and played for a couple of hours with the APIC software. Lots of warts on APIC, one of which was missing airports. I'm in the Minneapolis area and just west...

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This request goes out to anybody that knows Marlene at the Ramp 66 FBO in North Myrtle Beach (CRE). Marlene has worked at the FBO for over 21 years and if you've ever stopped there you have probably run into her. After 21 years Marlene is retiring and I would like to put together a book of...

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I'm looking for opinions / stories / experiences about the various GPS/Wx software packages that are available for Tablet PCs. I have a Motion LS800 and a WxWorx receiver. But, I'm not sure I'm happy with my current choice of software.

The other thread reminded me of an interesting situation I got into on the way out of Victoria, BC. I had filed for a lower than optimal altitude due to forecast icing at 9000. Once airborn I could see that the cloud layer in question had tops around 9000, and I could climb on top before I...

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:56:42 +0000, Peter wrote: The other day I was talking to a commercial pilot of a big twin passenger turboprop. He has been iced up a few times and recently was down to 200fpm climbing flat out through FL150; looking out of the window he saw a bit...

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I fly out of KHWO (N. Perry) in busy south florida. I just moved here and started filing and flying out of here. My 430 doesn't seem to have DP or Standard arrivals listed with HWO. It has them for nearby FLL and MIA and OPA-Locka. Can I insert them into the flight plan page manually ? What is...

"Kissing the Black Ass" news Before operational use of Air Traffic Selection And Training (AT-SAT) for hiring purposes, concerns were raised about differences in AT-SAT scores among protected groups (including but not limited to female and black group members.) Consequently, FAA management...