Having just crossed the border, and visited a few non-towered airports in the US, I'm afraid I may have done some injustice by using the PCL pilot controlled lighting a bit too much. Knowing the somewhat precarious financial state of those airports, and the electricity hog the lights can be, I'm...

Hello, I'm a fairly low time instrument pilot, and I plan to fly my family from Omaha to Houston's Ellington Field in early September. I have never flown in the Houston area. What routing can I expect in a Piper Arrow for the trip, assuming good weather. I'll have an overnight stop in...

I'd like to use DUATS to plan and file routes that include SIDs, but I find it often doesn't know about them. For instance, when I try to list the SIDs for KBED, it says there are none; when I try to list the SIDs for KBTV, it lists only BTV4.BTV (and it doesn't seem to accept manually specified...

The most efficient method of increasing horsepower in a reciprocating engine is by use of a turbo supercharger, or turbo charger, as it is usually called. ( from the http://ma3naido.blogspot.com/2007/10/aircraft-systems-turbo-superchargers.html blogs) A drawback of gear-driven superchargers is that...

I have seen some CNX-80 screen pictures with its built-in CDI showing the course as a triangle, sometimes it points up and other times it points down. What does it mean when it points up vs. down? Glideslope or VNAV? Regards, Robin Hou

Today's approach into KHKS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-Hzig3RdM On launch celings were 600 and tops were 1700 solid OVC. By the time I got to HKS, ceilings were about 700 and broken. Just enough cloud coverage to justify an instrument rating as no VFR traffic was to be found but as easy...

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Okay, I'm here, and my destination is on the other side of one of the Great Lakes. Flying direct will take me out of gliding distance from shore, so I don't want to do that. .... but there's no obvious airway route around the lake. In fact, there's a big honkin' Class B area, so even if I try to...

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It's been discussed here before. They are both good but slightly different. I prefer IFR, and its got more pages. "BoDEAN" wrote in message ... Anyone have a preference to which is better to subscribe to?

Peter wrote: I wonder if anyone else sees this problem. Doesn't seem like a problem to me. But, I normally leave that option turned off. If I enable the display of cities/towns, their names appear as they

As we did last year, AeroFile is celebrating the Holiday Season (and my Birthday) with a sale of sorts. From December 1 to December 24, 2003, when you order copy of "Military Aircraft Designations and Systems" we will pay your shipping. What a great Holiday gift. We still have some...

What part of your butt did you pull that BS out of? Congress has nothing to do with the federal register. Bob Gardner wrote: An instrument approach is, in effect, an act of Congress. Although they do it through obscure references to Part 97, each approach must be published in...

Anybody know of a PC flight simulator that has full flight controls combined with a GNS-430 or 530? I have Garmin's 430 simulator without flight controls, and On Top with controls and a 1990 GPS unit that doesn't have approach fixes in the database. It'd be nice to have both in one package.

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I think that GPS can be helpful for airport ground navigation and avoiding runway incursions. For some reason, I never see this mentioned in any of the material on runway incursion. It's not perfect, but if you have one in the cockpit it might help you maintain situational awareness on the...

I'm wondering if there is a way to determine the minimum altitude required for uninterrupted communication with ATC off airways? Do you look at the closest airway and sort of interpolate the MEA? Do the center and approach controllers have maps with these altitudes? I'm assuming an MVA doesn't...

Flyers, I know, I am forever hawking my aviation DVD's on eBay. I hope you have patience with me. There's even more to come after this. I hope you can take advantage of these DVD sales and learn and enjoy them as I have. I have three this time: DVD's start at $5.00 Aviation Media's DVD 121.5

Once upon a time I used the pneumonic TIM'S ABCS to set up for an approach. I have forgotten what everything stands for (I believe it begins Tune, Identify, Markers...). Does anyone remember the rest? And do you know what book it's from? Thanks! Evan