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Govt Plates by
Mike Granby
I see the latest batch of government approach plates are printed on
nice white paper, rather like the stuff Jepp uses. Much better! The
nasty old paper they used to use was very hard to read in low light
conditions as the contrast was rather lacking. They are always one step
behind Jepp, but at...
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November 27th 06 07:12 AM
by Blanche
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IMC without an autopilot by
Jon Kraus
Just curious as to opinions about flying in IMC without an autopilot?
Does an autopilot make flying in the clouds safer or is it just a crutch
for the lazy?
For myself being new to IFR flying I feel safer knowing that if needed I
could turn the autopilot on. Maybe it is a false sense of...
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"Going for the Visual" by
O. Sami Saydjari
A while back, I was with an experienced pilot, IMC, descending to land
at my home airport. The airport is not in an environment where ATC will
give vectors to final. As we approached, ATC asked which approach we
wanted. He said that he was "going for the visual." The ceilings were
right at the...
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FAR 91.157 Operating in icing conditions by
O. Sami Saydjari
I KNOW this is a big can of worms, but I have a specific question
relating to sub-paragraphs b.1 and b.2 of this regulation regarinding
operating in icing conditions.
It says "...no pilot may fly--
(1) Under IFR into konwn or forecast moderate icing conditions; or
(2) Under VFR into known light or...
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Obstacle avoidance between take-off and airway by
Mxsmanic
Yesterday I tried to plan a flight from Big Bear City (California) to Santa
Monica, in a Bonanza. The routing I worked out was L35..DAWNA.V8.PDZ.V186
TIFNI.ELMOO.DARTS..KSMO. DAWNA is on a portion of the airway that shows a MEA
of 10500 on the chart. Since I was westbound, I figured to climb to...
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IFR/Flight Following -- ATC Preferences? by
Mitty
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...
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November 7th 05 01:12 PM
by Judah
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Clearance with an Odd Intersection by
Marco Leon
Has anyone received a route clearance that included an intersection that was
only on an approach chart and not in an Enroute Chart?
Flew IFR from FRG to GON with the following clearance: Farmingdale Three,
radar vectors BDR, direct MAD, MAD 126 radial to MONDI, direct.
For the life of me I couldn't...
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GPS and old-fashioned thinking? by
G Farris
With all these questions about how to integrate GPS into our everyday
operations, I'm tempted to believe we have allowed the advent of this
wonderful new technology to send our thinking back to the dark ages!
We want GPS to simply replace everything else - then all that "legacy"
stuff just...
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December 22nd 05 05:39 PM
by Jose
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to HSI or not to HSI by
Dave Butler
Please excuse the hijacking of this religious/political forum to raise a
question about flying.
My partners and I are faced with a decision. What would you do?
We plan to update our outdated panel with a GNS480. The CDIs currently installed
are not compatible with the GNS480, so one of them will...
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Instrument Check Ride - What navigation equipment can I use ? by
Roy N5804F
I have started another thread to get a consensus of opinion about what
navigation equipment I will be allowed to use on my instrument check ride.
Recently I installed in the Archer a complete new Garmin left stack
including the GNS530.
I kept one of the old KX170B's and its glideslope indicator...
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Question to the IFR Pilots Out There by
Cecil E. Chapman
For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours of actual
IMC did you have when you got your ticket.
At approx 40 hours of instrument time I have a 'whopping' .9 hours of ACTUAL
IMC... I sincerely hope I'm going to get to see a lot more before I get my
instrument ticket - which...
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Contact Approach by
Russ MacDonald
Being from Texas, and flying mostly in the Midwest and South, I have never
asked for nor had any need for a contact approach. If I see the runway I
tell the controller, and he gives me a visual. In fact, I can't remember
ever hearing a contact approach requested around here.
Then, I whenever I...
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"normal" procedure for pop-up filing by
paul kgyy
I was taught that, if I needed to file an IFR flight plan in the middle
of a trip, I should contact FSS first to file and get clearance, then
contact ATC. On the other hand, I hear frequent references in
rec.aviation to pilots who just contact ATC directly. Does this depend
on how busy ATC is -...
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Big News -- WAAS GPS is Operational for IFR by
Lockheed employee
More gibberish and sensless unfounded babble.
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:22:38 -0700, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:
"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
news:669da89399b1403eaf276544232ee932@TeraNews...
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Confusion by
Jon Woellhaf
I recently filed IFR and received a clearance from Ground. As part of the
clearance, I was told, "... after departure turn left heading 300 ..." I
taxied to the active, did my run-up, called Tower and said I was ready for
departure. I was soon cleared for takeoff.
At about 1000 AGL, I began the...
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December 28th 07 11:45 PM
by Barry
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NTSB Preliminary report on HPN crash by
Peter R.
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...
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May 10th 05 08:37 PM
by Jose
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What do you do in the real world? by
Ron Garret
Last night I flew from SJC to VNY. To my astonishment I was cleared
vectors to SNS, then direct VNY (despite having filed a more standard
routing) at 9000 feet. I knew perfectly well that the routing was going
to change because I've done that route a zillion times, and indeed, near...
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Hold "as published"? by
John Clonts
Flying to Burnet, Texas (BMQ) the other day:
"Houston Center, 7nz request vectors-to-final Burnet GPS-01, or else request
direct JIBAJ for the GPS-19"
"7nz, you're number three, cleared direct Burnet, expect further clearance
2125"
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I didn't understand what he was telling me to do once I got...
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November 13th 03 03:19 PM
by John T
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descent below minimums by
hsm
Can I descent below minimums on an intermediate stepdown segment of an
IFR approach if I have the runway enviroment in sight?
On a very steep approach such as the backcourse loc-A to Santa
Maria,CA, I would like to start descending below 1700 feet prior to
reaching PATER, in order to facilitate a...
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