How do most of you pilots set up a flight plan and what nav-aids doyou use.

"Bob Nixon" wrote:

My question is; when you file a flight plan nowadays is it mostly
using a GPS box or do many of you still use VOR stations to
triangulate your course or ADF for that matter. I realize that not all
personal aviation planes are equipped with all the gear for IFR flight
but most probably do use some electronic aids for VFR flight as well.

Pretty much GPS for everything, nowadays. I may have VORs in the flight
plan, but I won't generally use the receivers in the airplane to navigate to
them unless I just feel like practicing. Their days are numbered and ADFs
are already disappearing fast.

UART G force tripped box

What the heck is that?


Another question would be; these days, a VHF radio, GPS unit, UART &
maybe a transponder would be all that would be required for a VFR
flight.

As Mike Nash said, you don't need any of those things if you stay out of
certain kinds of airspace.

--
Dan

T182T at 4R4

On Nov 10, 5:09*pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"Bob Nixon" *wrote:
My question is; when you file a flight plan nowadays is it mostly
using a GPS box or do many of you still use VOR stations to
triangulate your course or ADF for that matter. I realize that not all
personal aviation planes are equipped with all the gear for IFR flight
but most probably do use some electronic aids for VFR flight as well.

Pretty much GPS for everything, nowadays. *I may have VORs in the flight
plan, but I won't generally use the receivers in the airplane to navigate to
them unless I just feel like practicing. *Their days are numbered and ADFs
are already disappearing fast.

UART G force tripped box

What the heck is that?

Another question would be; these days, a VHF radio, GPS unit, UART &
maybe a transponder would be all that would be required for a VFR
flight.

As Mike Nash said, you don't need any of those things if you stay out of
certain kinds of airspace.

--
Dan

T182T at 4R4

The UART that I used to install back in 73 was a yellow colored snap-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter box.
If the plan went down in the peaks of a mountain it could be located
several hundred miles away. I had though it would have been manditory
by now but apparently not I was California so maybe it was a local
requirment or not at all.

Thanks for responding folks

Bob Nixon..

Bob Nixon wrote:
The UART that I used to install back in 73 was a yellow colored snap-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter box.

Aha! Perhaps you mean AN/URT beacon set radio, right? As in this:

http://www.tpub.com/1ase2/43.htm

To me, UART means "Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter" and was a
handy chip to have when one wanted to convert serial bit stream to parallel
byte streams and vice versa (as in modems and such.) Sure beat wiring
together (and debugging) discrete TTL chips to accomplish the same thing.

Jim Logajan wrote:
Bob Nixon wrote:
The UART that I used to install back in 73 was a yellow colored snap-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter box.

Aha! Perhaps you mean AN/URT beacon set radio, right? As in this:

http://www.tpub.com/1ase2/43.htm

Aha! I was wondering 'bout that.

BrianW

On Nov 10, 6:10*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Bob Nixon wrote:
The UART that I used to install back in *73 was a yellow colored snap-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter box.

Aha! Perhaps you mean AN/URT beacon set radio, right? As in this:

http://www.tpub.com/1ase2/43.htm

To me, UART means "Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter" and was a
handy chip to have when one wanted to convert serial bit stream to parallel
byte streams and vice versa (as in modems and such.) Sure beat wiring
together (and debugging) discrete TTL chips to accomplish the same thing.

I must have gotten those acronyms messed up over the years, How about
ELT for emergency location transmitter?

Bob Nixon wrote:
On Nov 10, 6:10*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Bob Nixon wrote:
The UART that I used to install back in *73 was a yellow colored
snap
-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter
box.

Aha! Perhaps you mean AN/URT beacon set radio, right? As in this:

http://www.tpub.com/1ase2/43.htm

To me, UART means "Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter" and
was a handy chip to have when one wanted to convert serial bit stream
to parall
el
byte streams and vice versa (as in modems and such.) Sure beat wiring
together (and debugging) discrete TTL chips to accomplish the same
thing.

I must have gotten those acronyms messed up over the years, How about
ELT for emergency location transmitter?

Works for me.

In article ,
Jim Logajan wrote:

Bob Nixon wrote:
On Nov 10, 6:10*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Bob Nixon wrote:
The UART that I used to install back in *73 was a yellow colored
snap
-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter
box.

Aha! Perhaps you mean AN/URT beacon set radio, right? As in this:

http://www.tpub.com/1ase2/43.htm

To me, UART means "Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter" and
was a handy chip to have when one wanted to convert serial bit stream
to parall
el
byte streams and vice versa (as in modems and such.) Sure beat wiring
together (and debugging) discrete TTL chips to accomplish the same
thing.

I must have gotten those acronyms messed up over the years, How about
ELT for emergency location transmitter?

Works for me.

Me too. Of course this is also optional equipment in many
circumstances....

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

Mike Ash wrote:
How about
ELT for emergency location transmitter?

Works for me.

Me too. Of course this is also optional equipment in many
circumstances....


There are ELTs and ELTs...
the usual article may have a remote switch, but emits on 121.5 and 243
MHz I watched the fellow in the next hangar testing his g switch:
he replaced the battery, then swung the ELT smartly against a tire.
At 5 to the hour, naturally... There was a recent alert about stuck g
switches, I hear.

The later article features 406MHz emissions I hear. I must find out more
about them.

Brian W

In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

Another question would be; these days, a VHF radio, GPS unit, UART &
maybe a transponder would be all that would be required for a VFR
flight.

As Mike Nash said, you don't need any of those things if you stay out of
certain kinds of airspace.

While I enjoy the sound of "Nash" and am not complaining at all, I would
like to point out that you've added an extraneous N.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

"Mike Ash" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

Another question would be; these days, a VHF radio, GPS unit, UART &
maybe a transponder would be all that would be required for a VFR
flight.

As Mike Nash said, you don't need any of those things if you stay out of
certain kinds of airspace.

While I enjoy the sound of "Nash" and am not complaining at all, I would
like to point out that you've added an extraneous N.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

Oops.

Sorry, Mike.

--
Dan

T182T at 4R4