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Windmilling Prop & Vacuum Pump by
Matt Young
Ok, a curious question just popped in my mind. Say that one was flying
IFR in a piston single, maybe a 172 or 182. While enroute, either in
actual or above a cloud layer, the engine fails. Will the windmilling
prop keep the vacuum pump going enough to make the AI and DG usuable
during descent...
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October 14th 04 08:08 PM
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will this fly? by
Lee Elson
Please excuse the cross post, but the topic might be of interest to
several groups.
I'm wondering whether providing light aircraft transportation services
(people and/or cargo) and consulting to small businesses is likely to
be a successful approach to setting up a very small aviation business.
In...
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Will the FAA be the next victim of the Government AX? by
NOIRS
We are one Mid-Air away folks
WASHINGTON - Hurricane Katrina turned FEMA into a "symbol of
a bumbling bureaucracy" so far beyond repair that it should
be scrapped, senators said Thursday. They called for
creation of a new disaster relief agency as the next storm
season looms on the...
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May 4th 06 02:06 AM
by ted
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Will Political Correctness get people killed again? by
SolarSapien
*Philosophy and Prophecy
FAA now and the future*
When Clinton was elected an edict came forth from the halls of Washington
"Get rid of those damn hard working heterosexual white males who built
America"
It was 1992 The American Pussy Empire had begun (Hillary **** licker
Queen Bee at the helm)
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WIDOE by
Jon Woellhaf
Last Monday (16 Aug 2004) I was on an IFR flight from Oakland, CA to Ogden,
UT.
About thirty minutes from Ogden, I heard Salt Lake Center call a Lifeguard
flight and clear him direct to (what sounded like) widow. The pilot asked
for spelling and Center said Whiskey, India, Delta, Oscar, Echo....
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Wideband Antennas by
CHANGE USERNAME TO westes
Will a wideband aviation antenna, that receives across 50 MHz up to over
1000 Mhz, be useful for VHF and UHF TV reception as well as aviation
frequency reception?
Can such an antenna be used by multiple devices listening to different
frequencies at the same time?
--
Will
westes AT...
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Why would someone choose to fly VFR on top? by
Ron Garret
Subject line says it all. In light of the fact that VFR on top subjects
you to both VFR and IFR constraints, why would anyone ever choose to fly
VFR on top? I can only think of two possible reasons:
1. There happens to be clear air at a +500 foot altitude and not at the
corresponding...
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Why some approaches are NA as alternates by
Ben Jackson
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...
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Why small radius collects ice faster? by
Andrew Sarangan
Is there an explanation for why small radii objects collect ice
faster? The NASA icing video simply states this fact without giving an
explanation. I have found the same with most other sources as well.
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Why publish a plate for an OTS approach? by
Paul Tomblin
I'm just reading IFR Refresher, and it has a report on an accident that
happened after a King Air was cleared for an SDF approach at KSME.
According to the article, at the time the A/FD and NTAP listed the SDF as
"Out of Service (OTS) - Indefinitely", and had been for four years, but
the plate was...
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July 1st 07 09:32 AM
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Why Not Use PC To Make Glass Cockpit? by
Le Chaud Lapin
Standard disclaimer applies: I still have my copy of Flight Training
next to the porcelain throne. Ahem.
However, as I flip the pages of this magazine, I cannot help but think
that companies like Garmin are getting off a bit easy.
Being a software developer, I am very suprised to discover that...
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Why no stepdown fix in GPS? by
Roy Smith
I flew the KFWN VOR or GPS-A (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0506/05412VGA.PDF)
this morning with a CNX-80. Annoyingly, ANKLE (the stepdown fix) is not in
the database. You get SAX-MAGLV. It seems like SAX-ANKLE-MAGLV would
make a lot more sense. Is the some reason it's left out of the database?
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why is intercept altitude labeled "LOC only"? by
Gary Drescher
In the NACO plate for ASH ILS 14, the GS intercept altitude (1800') is
labeled "LOC only". How can a GS intercept altitude apply to the LOC
approach and not to the ILS approach? Is this a charting error?
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0610/05036I14.PDF
--Gary
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September 23rd 06 09:00 PM
by JPH
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Why is ADF required for KSAC ILS Rwy 2 SIAP? by
Mark Hansen
There's a NOTAM out for KSAC ILS-2 which states that the following
note should be added to the planview: "ADF Required".
Why is ADF required for this IAP? The marker beacon should tell you
when you're over the LOM, and the missed approach procedure says you
need to hold at the VOR or the NDB.
Is...
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Why is ADF or Radar Required on MFD ILS RWY 32 Approach Plate? by
S. Ramirez
Does anyone know why the Mansfield OH MFD ILS RWY 32 approach plate has ADF
or Radar Required written on it?
There is speculation on another forum that ADF is required to establish the
FAF for the localizer approach, but I argued that it is not required for the
ILS approach, since intercept of the...
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Why is a standard hold right turns? by
Roy Smith
It has always struck me odd that a standard landing pattern is left
turns and a standard hold is right turns. Having a left patterns for
landing makes a bit of sense, since the pilot is on the left side of the
cockpit and has a better view of the runway making left turns.
But, for IFR holds,...
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Why are some NDBs not displayed on Low Alt Enroute Charts? by
Adlerson
Subject says it all. For instance, here in Southern California, the NDB
Petis is on the low chart, while ElMonte is not. Anyone know why?
Is it because of monitoring, or lack of? Or is it because one is part
of the enroute structure, and the other one not? Or because one has
approaches involving...
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Why are non precision approaches not lined up? by
Greg Farris
The title just about says it - I've always wondered WHY many
non-precision approaches (not talking about LOC only here, but VOR,
VOR/DME, NDB etc) are not lined up with the runway heading. Sometimes it
looks as though the approach desginers have gone out of their way to
make sure the non-precision...
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Why an NDB approach with a miss to an intersection? by
Ben Jackson
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...
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