I'm an Instrument Airplane student, and am having a disagreement with my instructor on one topic - that of Aircraft Approach Categories. According to 14 CFR Part 97.3 (b), it provides the speed ranges for the different aircraft categories (A-E). In all the documentation I've read, this "speed" is...

Ok, I know this is one of those "it depends" answers, but I'm curious as to what folks are willing to do in the winter time. Assumptions: Single engine piston aircraft with NO de-icing equipment. Situation: It's wintertime. You want to fly XC and there are midlevel clouds in the

Question for the enroute controllers. You have a spamcan or two, not filed /G, cleared direct to some fix. You don't care whether they are navigating with pilotage, a VFR GPS, or a ham sandwich, so long as they are on radar and don't go too grotesquely out of the way. Now the radar goes kaplooey,...

Yesterday I played with the parallel track function in the CNX-80 for the first time. I was introducing the CNX-80 to a student and I had planned a VFR flight via airways. My student (rightfully) questioned the wisdom of an over-water segment, so we decided to fly that segment on a 5-mile offset...

I am considering KLN-90B as replacement for my M-3 Approach. Question for experienced KLN-90B users: Legality aside, can you operate KLN-90B in approach mode (doing GPS approaches) with an outdated database? Thanks in advance, Robin Hou

Hello, I was on the ground at an uncontrolled field. I got a clearance to "On departure fly runway heading Radar Vectors xyz VOR Victor xxx abc VOR" Before leaving, I programmed the entire route into the GNS430. Since it doesn't have airways, I "synthesized" them by just putting in the VORs and...

Peter wrote: I am just going through some King video FAA IR training material and it briefly covers this topic. On a normal intercom one has selectors for "DME" and "NAV" and one would ident the VOR and the DME separately. However she mentions a that one can tell if one or the other is...

727 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/27wh.jpg "297" 737 Control Wheel http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/37wheel.jpg "495" Can someone tell me what the conrol on the right horn of the 727 and 737 control wheel ? In the pictures linked above I've listed the number "dialed in" on...

Hi, I recently learned that VOR can be "calibrated" or adjusted to take into account any error discovered at the 30-day check. For example, if you need to set OBS at 44 to get centered CDI on the 42 radial from VOR on airport checkpoint, and 219 to center CDI on the 222 radial, then you record the...

"Peter R." wrote in message ... IMO, a satellite based weather product, such as WSI or XMRadio, seems to be the superior choice except for the display option, which is either a laptop or PDA that adds loose...

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I just want to learn the "knobology". I don't care about flying the airplane. Any free or cheap G1000 sim software out there?

Has anyone received a route clearance that included an intersection that was only on an approach chart and not in an Enroute Chart? Flew IFR from FRG to GON with the following clearance: Farmingdale Three, radar vectors BDR, direct MAD, MAD 126 radial to MONDI, direct. For the life of me I couldn't...

The plate is here- http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0608/05889VDGC.PDF While trying to fly the approach in the sim I flew to the MAP with relative ease but had trouble getting low enough to make the runway without getting too hot. Looking at the plate it seems a drop of...

My Thursday flight up to Ohio. 6 hours flight time compressed into two 8 minute videos. First video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsb7wiCYsPY is the leg from Madison MS KMBO to Bowling Green MS Flew through some rain showers on this leg. Second video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYu9OJLmU4

Snowbird wrote: What can happen -- what's happened to us -- is that the tower controller doesn't worry his head about your flight plan. Yes, but it has to be typed in and accpeted by the computer. At all the class C airspaces all the controllers work all the positions at various times...

In the "good old" VOR days, it must have been pretty difficult to fly down the centerline of an airway (or of any direct track). So an eastbound VFR/IFR aircraft descending from 7500/7000 to his destination, was more than likely to avoid traffic... on the reciprocal track passing him by at 6500 or...

WTF kind of crosswind does it take to cause this? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185

fY'All, I've changed servers and it's taken two weeks to get back. In the interim I have had a first experience in an off-airport emergency landing. More when the authorities get finished. Gene

What a flight I experienced yesterday! Got to do more things I never did which made for such a wonderful learning experiences and also raised questions in my mind (surprise, surprise!). Really worked over my decision on to launch or not to launch today to fly from 2G2 (Steubenville, OH) to BWG...