A CFI with airplane single-engine rating but not instrument-airplane (not a CFII) gives flight instruction to a private pilot. Part of the flight is in the clouds, with the private pilot flying. Can the CFI log instrument time under FAR 61.51(g)(2): "An authorized instructor may log instrument...

Now let's take 91.175. The USA mandates the use of a published IAP. The UK does not. 91.1 says p91 does not apply outside the USA. Does this mean one can fly an unpublished IAP in the UK? I don't see anything in 91.1 saying that it does not apply outside the US. It says that it...

Is there a site that provides online RAIM predictions for the US? I know that Flight Service is supposed to be able to provide this, but it would be nice to have another source. Barry

To All: Removal of the FAA AFS-800 Part 61 and 141 FAQ web site Last month the FAA cancelled the AFS-800 Part 61 and Part 141 FAQ's. Evidently the reason was because the FAA Public Relations folks, the creator of the FAA's main "How do I become a Pilot?" FAQ web page convinced the...

I just had my first opportunity to log some approaches in a simulator and that brought up questions about how to log the time. The Frasca 141 was set up to mimic a Cessna 172. My questions a 1) Does this time get logged as Airplane SEL along with also being logged as a Synthetic Trainer? 2) Do...

I'll be heading from Toledo to Buffalo late in June and I'm wondering if the Cleveland class B is accomodating for IFR flights through their area, or if I should expect to be vectored well around the area. Since I won't have life rafts or jackets onboard, I want to make sure that I get vectored...

My medical is expired, I have not flown in 3 years, and I am very anxious to get back in the air. Is anyone flying into or through Pittsburgh, PA? Alleghney Co. or Pittsburgh International Airport? I have ~1,600hrs tt from ERAU in Daytona Beach, but have gotten into all kinds of other stuff...

Is there any software out there that will add the Com frequencies to the Nav log instead of having to look them up on the low route maps? thanks

Anyone had a chance to view this? Is it a good course? http://www.sportys.com/courses/dinstrument.cfm# Thanks, Dean

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Yesterday, I stopped by a small VFR airport in western NY state and struck up a conversation with a few locals. During the interesting aviation chat I learned that the FAA had been to their airport a year or so ago performing a survey that would hopefully result in a GPS approach. On average, how...

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...

The way I read 61.57(d) (the requirement for an IPC), it's just an extra requirement that kicks in under certain circumstances. It's not a subpart of 61.57(c) (6 approaches etc in 6 months), and (c) does not have any exceptions related to (d). So if an IPC is essentially a checkride, it could be...

I've been playing with the PDF approach plates. Well rendered they are easily readable at 600x800 (they're taller than they are wide, but narrower than the 4:3 aspect ratio of most display) with 16 levels of grayscale. 480x640 is pretty good with 16 levels of gray, down to right on the ragged...

What's the point of the CVO NDB 17? It's an off-airport NDB approach to a runway that also has ILS, VOR and GPS approaches, all with lower minimums. Like all but one other approach (a GPS approach from the south) it has a missed approach that takes you to an intersection hold about 9 miles to the...

When you're flying partial panel, to what precision do you read the mag compass? To the nearest 5 degrees? Estimate to the nearest degree? How long do you go between readings and rely only on timed turns? For that matter, do you ever try to apply values from the correction card? In IMC or even...

I made my first big IFR mistake. I fixed my intermittant ADF with only a few more hours of training to go until my checkride. My glorious plan to label it INOP (making it an expensive combination multi-channel timer and partial panel heading memory aid) has been thwarted by a little tuner cleaner...

My ADF (Narco 841) quit pointing shortly after I got the plane, so I pulled it and found it was covered in swarf (metal shavings) so I cleaned it off, cleaned the contacts (card edge connector) and put it back in. Now it points again. What I'm wondering is: How fast should it point? Let's say...

The SLE LOC BC RWY 13 FAF is located at ARTTY: http://myairplane.com/databases/approach/NorthWest/SLE_lbr13.pdf In the notes it says "Artty Int not authorized for final approach fix". However it sure does look like the FAF in the elevation view. So only the fan marker can be used to identify the...