I have around 1200 hours, a commercial MEL, IFR and private Glider certificates. I have not flown seriously since 1973. I had a brief period in 1980 when I earned a glider rating and again in 1991/92 when I joined a glider club and was a tow pilot. In 2002 I helped a local FBO on weekends...

There is just about a month before the new instrument rating PTS takes effect on October 1. This is a major re-write with standards for GPS and autopilot coupled approaches (now required if the aircraft is equipped), guidelines for partial panel approaches in aircraft with glass cockpits,...

One popped completely out of the abyss of the MS skies last night. It rates up there as one of the noisiest ones I have encountered much less video'd since moving to MS. The thunder pegged the sound capability of the camera as some distortion is heard throughout...

Is 1000 feet the absolute minimum vertical separation between ifr aircraft? Or can atc assign 3500 feet to one, and 4000 to another, and have no lateral separation?? Secondly, any different for a situation where one is ifr at 4000 ft, and a vfr aircraft is being vectored at 3500 feet, with no...

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Folks, I'M about to start flying again, and so am giving the 3600a a serious look! I currently have one of the original 3600, which is nearly invisible when outdoors. I notice that the 3600a now has a transflective TFT, and so I'm hoping that somebody has tried it and can comment on how visible...

Hi, I will be flying out of JFK on 18 April at 400P and returning to JFK on 30 April at 725P. I'm thinking of flying my Archer from Cleveland to somewhere in the area (no, I don't want to go into JFK, ha ha) and leaving her there for the couple of weeks. Any suggestions will be appriciated. I...

Hello! The new version 3.0 of Seattle Avionics's Voyager just came out, and it has a nice moving map. I want to start using it on my laptop, but need to buy a GPS, first. SA recommends the Pharos GPS360, but I always thought the Garmin GPS 10 may be the better option. Does anyone have...

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In a couple of weeks, I'll be flying from SNA (Santa Ana/John Wayne, CA) up to the Bay Area (Palo Alto, CA), and was wondering if there is any way to plan or know in advance which departure SoCal is likely to give me. In looking at the SNA SIDs, a logical choice seems to be the Anaheim...

When I was in the Army, we always said "no plan survives contact with the enemy". My new mantra is "no flight plan survives contact with Toronto Terminal". I've flown from various places on the east side of Toronto (Oshawa, Buttonville, City Center) to Rochester NY about 10-15 times, almost...

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I'm considering a flight from Michigan to KISP on Long Island (some time this winter) in our club's Skylane IFR. (armed with a Garmin 396 for weather) I'm wondering what kind of routing I'm likely to get around NYC. Coming from Michigan I have a choice of Canada to Buffalo and down, or to...

Hello: I am having a difficult time finding a club to join in Washington DC metro area. I can fly out of Leesburg, Manassas or Gaithersburg or any other nearby airport. I fly Cessnas and am instrument rated. I would apprecaite if you could point me to such clubs. Please respond via email to...

I am out of currency on my IFR flying and wanted to go to an intensive 1 or 2 day IFR IPC course. Probably one that uses a simulator extensively. I fly a Piper Turbo Saratoga. I've heard is a good school in Vegas and thought the pilot said it was flight safety but I called Flight Safety today...

Thank you for the reply. Where do you find the SID? Are they provided for the larger airports? Cheers, Derrick "David Megginson" wrote in message ... Derrick Early wrote:

Thanks for all the input, folks. I also print my destination plates so they are easy to put on the yokeboard, but trying to put either the punched or the bound books onto yokeboard/kneeboard is a problem. What I came up with is a little gadget that will permanently (double-stick tape) mount to...

Where can I find approach and departure charts for rural airports in the Sierra Madre mountains that surround Puerto Vallarta, Mexico? I realize many of these mountain airports are little more than a dirt road next to a farm and do not have published instrument approaches, but I would still like...

Santa delivered Flight Simulator and a Cyborg joystick this year. I plan to use it to help maintain instrument currency when I don't have time for the real thing. I'm finding the learning curve for FS to be a little steep initially and it is taking a while to get things like the joystick...