Mr. Tarver: You are correct in that it definitely takes a quorum of managers to make a cogent decision about such things. Likewise, you are also (probably) correct in that it should not make one iota of difference whether one wishes to use their hand-held GPS a Robinson R-22 helicreature or in an...

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 Does this mean one can fly an unpublished IAP in the UK?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...

When doing an ILS approach, with the glideslope, is it a requirement to be able to identify the outer marker or a substitute? FAR 91.175(k) lists the outer marker as one of the "basic ground components" and gives the acceptable substitutes, but doesn't explicitly say that it's required. The AIM...

Anyone out there using the Garmin 96c handheld GPS? I have discovered a glitch that may be a significant firmware problem on the 96c (and maybe the 96). When projecting a waypoint on a bearing from between 165 to 181 degrees FROM any existing waypoint in the 96c's internal aviation datatbase on...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:10:34 GMT, Mike wrote: "Bear Bottoms" wrote in message ... On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:31:38 GMT, Mike wrote: He's no different than Jay then, other than a higher percentage of his ...

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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...

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...

The HIO ILS 22 has a hold at COUVE which is defined by the intersection of three things: the UBG 232, BTG 242 and the LOC. It's also the UBG 232 @ 21.7 DME. I was flying this in FS2002 in the 182RG, which only has 1 CDI on the panel, but it does have a DME you can remote to the second (invisible,...

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...

What is the reason for an approach (or a whole airport) to be NA as an alternate? Is there some attribute an approach has to have to be worthy of being filed as an alternate? The one that got me wondering was KAST (Astoria, OR) which is NA except for the VOR Rwy 8 when it also has ILS/LOC and GPS...

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...

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...

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...

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...