I have just recently acquired a Garmin 430/WAAS for my Mooney 201. In practicing approaches to familiarize myself with the unit, I went up with an instructor to get some advice/tips. I had flown a GPS overlay approach (NDB/GPS Runway 5 KLWM, Lawrence MA) previously in VFR conditions and tracked the...

A close call between two planes at O'Hare Airport this summer was closer than originally reported. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that an Atlas Air cargo plane and a United Airlines jet came within 35 feet of colliding on July 23 -- not 300 feet as reported back in July...

My flight school, got a new Frasca simulator which has every airport in the world in it's database. I want to be able to make my students fly all sorts of weird/unusual/difficult approaches, but the only approaches that I am familiar with are the ones around here. There was this one my instructor...

"Guillermo" wrote: Perhaps... but what if you're in IMC and partial panel? My initial thought was "one emergency at a time, please". If you're partial panel in IMC and you then lose the engine, you're goose is probably cooked anyway. But, then I realized that...

Today I departed out of RIL as a passenger on a Citation V Ultra being flown under Part 135. Despite the winds and terrain favoring a departure from runway 26, we departed runway 8. One of the consequences of this was that we needed a 5500 foot ceiling, which we darn near didn't get and we...

A packed British Airways jet was just seconds from disaster after plummeting out of the sky in a dramatic near miss over America, it has emerged. BA flight 2166 carrying 175 terrified passengers, three pilots and 11 crew plunged 600 feet in a bid to avoid collision with another plane above...

While discussing reimbursement of hotel bills from a major airline, I was told that my flight(s) were cancelled BY ATC. Now, I know that ATC can delay IFR clearances/takeoffs based on weather, traffic volume, landing slots at the destination, and probably cosmic ray intensity as well, but I...

There's a NOTAM out for KSAC ILS-2 which states that the following note should be added to the planview: "ADF Required". Why is ADF required for this IAP? The marker beacon should tell you when you're over the LOM, and the missed approach procedure says you need to hold at the VOR or the NDB. Is...

With all of the new EFIS(Electronic flight Instrumentation Systems), has anyone seen one that stores the flight path for replay? It looks like all of the information is there, and this would be a tremendous help in instrument instructing, or even "pattern review". If downloaded to a simulator on a...

A student and I took off today IFR from HPN. Destination was FWN (Sussex, NJ). Rhumb line course is 42 NM at 294 degrees. Clearance was "Westchester 1, RV CMK, CMK 275R to intercept SAX 039R, SAX, direct FWN, maintain 3000, expect 4000 after 10 minutes". Departing runway 34, the SID is "climb...

I just bought the Hood Lamb and had to send them back. They simply would not clamp to my David Clark H10-13.4 which have a narrower than usual band. To their credit, they acknowledge this problem with DC's and suggest friction tape to increase the girth of the band. Didn't work...to rinky-dink...

In sci.electronics.design Peter wrote: I've just had my 6th failure of the roll servo, since 2002. "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that." Can anyone offer me any info Try http://www.rockwellcollins.com/products/cs/br/flight_controls/index.html

What are your standards for taking passengers up into actual conditions? I've developed a decent feel for what people will tolerate VFR- who can take a few bumps, who will get scared if its windy, etc. But I haven't got any idea what to make of taking pax into the soup. Is it as disorienting...

I've been asked to help write some code to assist in flight planning by choosing routes. I have just enough Computer Science and IFR background to make me dangerous. I said that I'd donate my effort if it results in Free code the community can use. So we're making this a community...

If I am navigating along a Victor Airway, and want to program it into my GPS, how can I tell if there is an angle (i.e. change in direction) at an intersection? I know that some intersections are there just because of changes in MOA, MOCA, etc, but definitely some are there because the airways...

I have started on practical IFR training in the real world. (Vans RV-9, hopefully RV-10 soon; mostly glass cockpit.) I do ok on precision flying, but I would definitely like to practice patterns, approaches, etc., at home before I go. just too few approaches per training hour. Fortunately, it...

Can anyone point out why the following approaches have minor differences (specifically the minimums and the MAP): RUT LOC/DME 19 RUT LOC 19 (with DME)

recent thread has me wondering: what's the shortest runway you've encountered with an ILS? About the shortest I can think of offhand is the ILS 24 at RID (Richmond, Indiana), 5500 ft. We may have been somewhere w/ a shorter runway served by an ILS, but probably didn't fly an ILS and I don't...

I just bought a FlightStat Fingertip Pulse Oximeter as an added measure of safety when flying at oxygen altitudes (with oxygen, obviously). Anyway, the device does not really come with any guidelines on threshold levels below which you should be concerned. 1. A little background reading suggests...

Have been inactive for many years. About 20 years ago, when flying up from the south, I got suckered in. The tops slowly rose untill I was flying at over 15,000 (Mooney 201) near Cleveland, It was clear on top and the temp was in the mid 40s on the ground, and the freezing level was high enough...