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Step Down or Track Glide slope on GPS overlay approach by
Mooney
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...
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"Tombstone" agency splitting hairs again by
BillyJack
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...
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November 25th 06 02:05 AM
by Roger
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crazy approaches by
buttman
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...
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November 2nd 06 12:02 AM
by Ronnie
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Turn co-ordinator by
Roy Smith
"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...
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November 2nd 05 10:41 PM
by Newps
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Primus 1000 FMS brain damage by
Ron Garret
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...
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February 5th 08 08:02 PM
by Jon
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777 Death Dive over Atlantic by
JesusLives
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...
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ATC "cancellation" of scheduled carrier flights? by
Marc J. Zeitlin
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...
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August 27th 06 01:51 PM
by Judah
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Why is ADF required for KSAC ILS Rwy 2 SIAP? by
Mark Hansen
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...
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Electronic review of flight? by
Al
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...
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Lost comm -- what would you do? by
Roy Smith
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...
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Lightspeed with Foggles question by
Rod Madsen
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...
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Honeywell KFC225 autopilot roll servo failure by
[email protected]
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
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IFR Passengers? by
C Kingsbury
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...
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: automatic route selection by
Kyler Laird
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...
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angle points in victor airways by
John Hamilton
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...
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PC flight sim for training? by
ivo welch
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...
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January 29th 06 09:54 PM
by john h
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January 25th 04 07:49 PM
by Dave S
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shortest runway w/ an ILS? by
Snowbird
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...
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Flight Oximeter and 02 Saturation Standards by
O. Sami Saydjari
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...
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Decent into Cleveland by
john cop
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...
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