I'm currently flying VFR in a vfr equipped plane. What would be the lowest cost GPS based instrument system I could install and be legal for IFR flying? I looked through the last six months of this newsgroup, but didn't see a FAQ or the answer to the above, so I hope it won't be something that...

Anyone out there have any good web sources for up-to-date, textual PIREPS? Multiple ones over a wide area would be a plus. The only solid way I've found to get them is to log on to DUATS and do a flight plan around the area I'm wanting to get PIREPs for. This is time consuming, and I know theres...

Hi all. What does it mean when there's an alternate intersection name in brackets in the new AOPA Flight Planner? As an example, there's an intersection just south of the Wash D.C. Class B where V286 and V16 cross. It's called TAPPA but the new AOPA flight planner also has in brackets. It also...

Filed and flew IFR flight plan from CNC3 to CNY3. Checked the notams that the NAVCANADA website called up for the route and everything seemed fine. Checked with FSS - no additional notams Only once up in the air did ATC advise me of a NOTAM indicating VOR YEE U/S. The problem is that without an...

In the regulations it says that you can land at an airport without an IAP if you descend from the MEA and land under VFR, but if there is a MOCA, can you use that instead?

Legalize and control Pot. The dumbest thing in the world is allowing LIQUOR at AIRPORTS but crucifying pot smokers I have been slammed drunk on tequila and high as a kite on pot during my brain dead youth IF? in an extreme life saving emergency situation in IFR in one of those stoned...

I have a question regarding the ILS or LOC RWY 5L. I have never seen the QUICK FIX MINIMUMS. What does that mean? Thanks Ross

November 12345, a Cessna 172, 20 miles northeast of Sugarloaf Mountain, level VFR seven thousand five hundred, en route to Winston-Salem, North Carolina." For those who like to write lists, it would look like this: 1) FULL callsign; 2) Type aircraft; 3) Current location; 4) Current altitude and...

Recently I was arriving from the southwest to my home base of UES (Waukesha, WI), and was given the Veena arrival. However, the Veena arrival is not listed as a STAR to Waukesha, but is under the section for Milwaukee, which is around 20 miles away (in the Jepp charts). Waukesha is not under the...

Me acting like a noob as a passenger on todays VFR flight to Brookhaven MS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjmjttvrRN8 An exclusive video probably not to be seen anywhere else on You Tube (that is an aerial shot of the snow cover) The squeals of delight were edited out when we saw snow on the...

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These are shown on the LL enroute chart by little brown circles connected by a line. The legend says "substitute route, see NOTAMs". There are several originating from the DQO VOR near the Washington DC area, but there could be others as well. I have never noticed these before. Any ideas what they...

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I just heard about this from AOPA's site: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2007/070524gps.html I haven't read the AC yet, but it looks like a lot of GPS's that are out there aren't usable in lieu of ADF/DME or for RNAV use. Also, as I'm still somewhat new to IFR GPS'es, what is the...

"Peter" wrote in message ... FAR 91.175 (a) suggests that it is not permitted to carry out a descent in IMC except on an official published IAP. Any views on this? How would it differ if the entire procedure was...

I'm learning the CNX-80 my club just installed. One of today's tasks was to load and fly a DP to make sure I knew how that worked. Unfortunately, at my home airport (White Plains), when you go to load the Westchester One, you discover there are no DP's available in the database. OK, we headed...

("Matt Barrow" posted this link in a different thread) http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001208X09256&key=1 (WARNING: Long confused post ...????) "The minimum altitude for the approach was 376 feet above the ground." (Is that for a point 2.5 miles out? ...where the power line is 150...

A friend of mine and I (from the San Francisco Bay area) are planning a cross country trip in Sept '04 spanning the Labor Day weekend. We plan to take 9-10 days, weather permitting, going all the way to New York/Boston and back in a single engine Cessna 182. We are looking for a 3rd pilot...

I would like to use a flight I took two years ago to show I've satisfied the "Long Cross Country" requirement for my Commercial ticket. On that flight, I flew from SMO to O22 (259NM), then to (124NM) in one day, then turned around several days later and flew back - CIC to SZP (353 NM) to SMO...

What type of airspace is the restricted airspace north of Vancouver Island. Flightmap lists it as COMOX and says that it reaches from 18,000MSL to Unlimited. It is big, about 165nm on the NS axis and 110nm EW. What are my chances at getting cleared through it at FL240? Thanks! Mike MU-2