Do any of you fly into KADS with a Garmin GPSmap 496? I'm getting a false terrain alert when flying the Rwy 15 ILS and am wondering if anyone else has this problem. I'm working with Garmin to resolve this, but so far what they have suggested has not solved the problem. When flying the...

One thing - one of so very many things - I learned in my five years of flying is that partisan politics does not fit into the cockpit. Most of my flight instructors have, I know, been to the right of me politically. I had a most enjoyable flight with CJ - although he has since earned my...

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...

1) "N7NZ, cleared direct BMQ cruise 7000". Do I report subsequent descents? E.g. "leaving 7000 descending 5000"? Then later "leaving 5000 descending 2000"? 2) Its VMC and I'm IFR to Temple, level at 5000. At 25 miles out I report Temple in sight. "N7NZ cleared visual approach to Temple, remain...

I got a demo flight in a Diamond DA-40 equipped with the Garmin G-1000 glass cockpit this morning. We departed IFR from Tacoma Narrows and flew west for some maneuvers. This plane was the second one out of the factory with the G-1000. I had a difficult time maintaining my altitude; the altitude...

My AOPA membership comes up for yearly renewal at the end of September. Today, I got a membership renewal request via email from the organization. Here is my response: Dear AOPA, The question arises. Why should an FAA enroute air traffic controller who

Just got back from a good proficiency practice flight. This was the first time I'd flown single pilot IFR at night with conditions that could potentially deteriorate to actual instrument. (cloudy, rain developing as the flight progressed, visibility dropping somewhat) The basic rundown... got the...

On Friday, September 3, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Gene Hudson wrote: Garner Miller wrote: OK, I'm in need of some 100% trivial information. I have a friend going for an airline interview next week, and rumor has it they're going to whip out an approach plate with an "LDA with...

Anybody know what type of instrument approaches were used to fly the airlift into Berlin in the 40s?

Flightinfo.com asked for pilots political orientation. Results: Democrat 22.97% Republican 57.24% Ind. 19.79% http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21699

How many here have flown GPS approaches with Center as the approach control? I'd be interested to hear your experiences. I needed to fly one yesterday to get into Greenville, AL and the ZTL controller sounded really befuddled about quite how to handle it. Because of another recent experience, I...

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...

The other day, I had an air traffic situation I wanted to bounce off of the group. Those of you who don't know me, I'm a Center controller down here in Atlanta. Here's the deal. I was working a Center departure sector mixing Atlanta terminal departures of every ilk and kin with enroute...

While posting changes in my Jepp book last night, I came across the following change to the AIM. Kris Old text 5-4-9. Procedure Turn a. A procedure turn is the maneuver prescribed when it is necessary to perform a course reversal to establish the aircraft inbound on an

Is it possible for a "flight of two" to file and fly an IFR flight plan?

I had a "discussion" with my instructor about lost comms in IMC after a radar vector. To illustrate, consider this scenario (gratuitously enhanced with specifics): Depart BJC (Boulder, CO) for a flight to EVV (Evansville, IN). You expect the flight to take 4:30. You depart at 1200Z. Once...

OK, I'm flying my local VOR-A which calls for an outbound heading of 252, then I'm suppoosed to turn 45 deg to 207 to begin the PT. But there is a STRONG x-wind and I am already crabbed to about 215 to hold the 252 outbound course. I assume I turn to something not quite approaching 170 (45 deg...

I fly from KLAX to KLAS, using the FMC to handle most of the flight. With the routing I put in, the FMC decides on some default altitudes and includes required altitudes for the arrival and departure procedures I select. Part of what it does is to create a descent schedule from the nominal cruise...

There was an earlier thread on whether it was legal to fly an airplane under part 91 into known icing if there was no specific prohibition against it in the airplane's operating handbook. I asked the Seattle FSDO what their take was on the issue. This is their reply: Dear Mr. Campbell: Thanks for...

I posted earlier about seeing differences of up to 500' between the altitude shown on my Garmin GPS 196 (even while receiving WAAS) and my altimeter. The GPS would consistently indicate higher than the altimeter. Dan Luke suggested the cause might be non-standard temperatures. After some more...