Hi All, I've been snooping the rec.aviation.* groups for a while, and I'm still lost. I want to start studying for my IFR rating. I'm from the US, resident in Japan, and so I reckon on studying on my own then taking the test on some trip back to the states one day. I've seen a variety...

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As many of you probably know, recent midwest weather has been a steady stream of low overcast, misty, and foggy days prohibiting most VFR flight and making IFR flights a spin of the icing roulette wheel. I thought it may be a good opportunity for us to review NASA's icing online...

I recently made an inquiry to Garmin regarding their new requirement that GNS 430/530 owners pre-order the WAAS upgrade prior to November 2005 to guarantee the $1500 price their marketing department has been stating for the past 2 years... Keeping in mind the WAAS upgrade for these boxes are...

Wait! He can use a GPS in place of the ADF on that approach. Isn't that correct? Rich Raine www.eraine.com "Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message ... "Gig Giacona" wrote in message

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Ok, time for me to fill y'all in on today's adventure... my IR checkride! First, let me thank all of those (in rec.aviation.student at least!) who have posted their PPL checkride stories. I've read a few over the past week or so, and they helped calm me down quite a bit in preparation for today....

I used to subscribe to IFR until I realized that they offered a much better rate to new subscribers than to existing ones. After realizing this, my four year old decided to subscribe :-). Today he recieved a solicitation from another aviation magazine. Obviously they sold his (and my) name...

I was departing Harford Co MD airport yesterday (0W3) enroute to Chesterfield MD (FCI). 0W3 is a small non-towered field with no ground communications to ATC or FSS. In trying to pick up my clearance on the ground, I attempted to contact Leesburg FSS on the 1-800-WX-BRIEF. Due to call volume, I ...

Today I dropped an Angel Flight patient off at Massena, NY (KMSS), an uncontrolled airport in the very north portion of NY state. The weather was 50 feet above minimums and the ILS was the only way in. Once the patient was safely in the warm terminal, I preflighting and started up, only to...

Light gun work with ATC COMS - Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw2XtN15qOA Two weeks ago I was with a friend who had COM failure and that was my first experience with light guns. Because of this, I thought it would behoove me to brush up on my experiences in a plane. I posted my experiences...

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:56:33 GMT, "John T" wrote in Message-Id: : "Larry Dighera" wrote in message How does the military's use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...

Departing cross country out of the Minneapolis area in severe clear, I will usually ask for either flight following or will file. I depart from KMIC, which is under the 4000 foot shelf of the MSP bravo airspace. For example, Friday I am going from KMIC to KGPZ, which is a couple hundred miles to...

Can you program in a radial off of a VOR to use as a GPS course? For example, say your cleared from your present position to intercept a given radial inbound. Up to this point you've been flying direct, or flying a set of GPS waypoints. You're navigating off of GPS, not VOR. When this happens...

I get my pre-flight briefings from: *) weathertap - RadarLab, area outlook, tafs, progs *) ADDS - flightpath tool for AIRMETS & winds aloft along the route *) FlightStar - to tell me how long it'll take, print nice-looking flight plans, plan fuel stops, etc. Then I call flight service and listen...

Kindly take a look at the ILS runway 26 approach to Astoria (KAST). I tried to fly this in my sim and I'm not at all sure that I did it correctly. In my case, this is what I did: I was on V187 from Seattle at 6000. Once I was within 25 nm of AST, I descended to 4300. About 12 nm away from AST,...

It's been awhile since I flew VFR, and having taken a cursory look through Part 61 I didn't see anything to the contrary, so I'm going to throw this out and see what you guys think. It's my understanding that I can take a VFR-only airplane on a local VFR trip with a PP-rated safety pilot on board,...

"Ryan Ferguson" wrote: If one's SA is what it should be, ciphering out which of the three standard entries to use becomes a waste of time and therefore counter to safe practice. Shouldn't require any ciphering out. Once you visualize where you are and where the hold is, figuring...

Hi Folks- Without descending into the madness of the other thread, I have a couple of questions regarding the use of a VFR GPS while IFR. Hypothetically, let's say I was flying IFR from Santa Monica, CA to San Jose, CA (SMO to RHV). The weather is CAVU. I am filed /A and cleared via a fairly...

Tom Fleischman wrote: If you want to read something really disturbing, this is it. Is there something specific that is disturbing, or are you referring to the entire report? I read through it and, while it is always disturbing when an accident...