In article , "RossCutlass" wrote: Whilst preparing an IFR flight to Sudbury (Ontario) I noticed that some areas of the MSA 25NM altitudes are lower than the procedure turn altitudes for the following...

I had an interesting experience earlier today. I thought after all this time I had the CNX-80 figured out, but I found a new way to screw things up. I was on the POU GPS-24 (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0508/00286VDG24.PDF), full procedure, Kingston IAF. We were IFR, in and out of IMC. We had...

I had a strange experience with our CNX-80 earlier today. Heading back into HPN, we tried to bring up the approach frequency 126.4, and discovered it wasn't in the database. There were the normal secondary freqs (120.8 and 124.65), but no 126.4. Then I looked up DXR (Danbury, right next...

"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...

A Lieberman wrote: When an airport has multiple approaches, like GPS, ILS, VOR and so on, and lets say ceilings are above the GPS minimums, will Center automatically set you up for the most precise approach available such as an ILS, or do you have to request it. For...

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...

My club just got a very nicely equipped Bonanza with a King KFC-200 A/P system installed (along with a CNX-80 GPS). I think I've got most of it figured out, but yesterday something happend which I didn't understand. The active leg in the GPS was a course of about 230, with a stiff wind from the...

It never ceases to amaze me how I keep finding something I don't know how to do on the GNX-480 after all this time. Had a flight plan going when I got a pretty significant re-route in flight. I went into FPL, hit EDIT, and started deleting waypoints with the CLR button. After a while, I...

Does anybody know where you can find scanned images of IFR en-route charts on line (like skyvector.com does for sectionals)?

The stock clearance into HPN from the POU area is IGN V157 HAARP. It's been that for as long as I've been flying around here. Recently, they've started issuing IGN V157 VALRE V157 HAARP, which boils down to exactly the same thing (VALRE is just a bend in V157). Today, I asked the controller...

What would you do in this situation? You're on the GPS-22 into Ellenville, NY (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0508/09390G22.PDF), planning to land straight-in. Note the high MDA (1800 AGL). There's no weather reporting at your destination, but several nearby airports are saying anywhere from 2-1/2 to...

(Bravo8500) wrote: In a recent FAA sponsored seminar that I attended, a retired Tower Controller mentioned in his presentation that IMC flight in Class G airspace without a clearance was actually legal as long as the aircraft and pilot were both instrument...

Had a strange thing happen to me today. I filed IFR HPN - HFD (White Plains NY to Hartford CT). The route part of my clearance came back "radar vectors Carmel, V1, Hartford, Direct". Usually out of HPN I would expect to get the Westchester-1 departure, but it wasn't in my clearance, and I when...

I've been doing most of my GPS flying with a CNX-80, which doesn't seem to suffer from loss of RAIM. Last night I was flying with a GX-60, and got a RAIM warning when commencing an approach. The GX-60 manual isn't real illuminating on what you're supposed to do at this point. Presumably,...

Apparently, if you file IFR HPN - MMU, you get a clearance which starts "CMK CMK275R SAX039R SAX" (i.e. fly outbound on the CMK 275 until you intercept the SAX 039, then fly that inbound to SAX). In the good old days of 2 VOR receivers, this is trivial to fly; the radios don't know or care that...

I was looking at some old IFR Refreshers tonight, and found the IFR Quiz from September 2002. See http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0503/00282I2C.PDF. Question #4 asks how to identify TANDS, and the answer they give is "BNA DME and Livingston's R-270". Isn't that kind of nuts? The DME arc is almost...

I just noticed an interesting problem with the Instrument Rating PTS. It says: Aircraft and Equipment Required for the Practical Test GPS equipment must contain the current database. The problem is that not all GPS units require that the database be current. The CNX-80 AFM Supplement...

Some approaches have a note, "Procedure NA at night except by prior arrangement for runway lights". Let's say I make this prior arrangement (presumably by talking to the airport manager and having him leave the lights on for me), how do I deal with ATC? When I ask for the approach, is the...

I saw an approach mistake the other day that I've never seen before. We were flying the VOR-A @ 12N (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0503/05026VA.PDF) and were a little off course (in good VFR conditions). My student looked up at about the right time, saw a runway, and went for it. Unfortunately, it...

Yesterday, we had filed /G (with a CNX-80). Our clearance was KPOU IGN V157 HAARP -D- KHPN. Nothing out of the ordinary there. HPN was using the ILS-16 (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0612/00651I16.PDF) We were on V157 somewhere north of VALRE when we got "fly heading 200 to intercept, um, no,...