Has anyone interfaced an M3 with a PC? I have a Motion LS-800 running Jeppview Flitedeck. I had succefully interfaced it with my previous aircraft that had a Trimble 2000 Approach. Trimble uses RS-232 w/ King aviation data format for its moving map output. I used an USB RS-232 coverter and...

I flew safety for a friend in his Bonanza A36 w/ IO-550 yesterday. He hand flew a perfect ILS, but it was with full flap and gears down at around 22 in power. In my E35 Bonanza with E225 engine and low flap and gear speeds, I almost always fly ILS with flap up, gears down at around 17 in power. ...

I am considering KLN-90B as replacement for my M-3 Approach. Question for experienced KLN-90B users: Legality aside, can you operate KLN-90B in approach mode (doing GPS approaches) with an outdated database? Thanks in advance, Robin Hou

I want out to play last week. I requested clearance from EMT to RAL for ILS to rwy 9. Shortly after I was level at 4000, I was cleared to intercept localizer. As I tracked localizer, the glideslope started down and I started down with it. At 3,700, ATC called to ask me to remain 4000. I...

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This is from AvionicsWest: "WAAS for the GNS430/530 is now postponed until sometime in 2006. I don't "think" the problem is really a WAAS issue. You see, Garmin plans on making the 430/530 comply with TSO 146 just as the GNS480. TSO 146 requires an update rate of 5hz verses 1hz as the product...

In an earlier subject, Jeppview vs. paper Jepp Plates, I was waiting for my touch screen to arrive so I can use it to display JeppView/FliteDeck moving map. Anyways, it arrived on last Tuesday, and I went to airport to hook it up, and took it for a ride. And it works! It is very sun light...

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?

I just bought the Hood Lamb and had to send them back. They simply would not clamp to my David Clark H10-13.4 which have a narrower than usual band. To their credit, they acknowledge this problem with DC's and suggest friction tape to increase the girth of the band. Didn't work...to rinky-dink...

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:18:39 -0800, "Jim Burns" wrote: A friend of mine, a many thousand hour ATP, CFII, freight runner that flies a Beech 99 sent me the story below.... he makes some great points about transitioning from the gauges to visual and not seeing what you...

I don't know how many are aware of the current push to implement Broadband Power Line (BPL) high speed internet connections, but is has some interesting ramifications. Perhaps Jim has looked into this. BPL as I understand it caused a good deal of interference from a bit above the AM broadcast...

I had a friend ask me today how I'd cancel a flight plane that I had never activated. I gave the usual answer...If I never activated it, I don't need to cancel it. If I haven't activated it past the closing time it gets dropped. Canceling one that has been activated and flown is *usually* not a...

Does anyone know how a stormscope is able to sense the distance to the lightning ...

Everyone seems to agree that that FAR 43 requires a maintenance log entry when updating the database. And everyone agrees that it is silly. What date do you put down for the maintenance ( I know the obvious answer - the date you did it)? If I update multiple planes this weekend with the database...

Here is my experience with the release version of Vista64 Ultimate so far as it relates to Jeppesen, FSX and also Garmin. Vista is available as a developer's subscription on Microsoft's MSDN right now. I downloaded Vista64 Ultimate from MSDN and installed it on a new machine I built. My old XP...

http://ronsvideos.fliggo.com/video/uIgc0dP9 This video was shot in a Cessna 206 taking us to a game reserve in South Africa. Watch the fuel gage in the upper right corner.

Today I departed out of RIL as a passenger on a Citation V Ultra being flown under Part 135. Despite the winds and terrain favoring a departure from runway 26, we departed runway 8. One of the consequences of this was that we needed a 5500 foot ceiling, which we darn near didn't get and we...

Anyone know where I can find a list of US airports and their lat/lon positions? I know about the airnav site, but that only lets me get one at a time. I need a list that I can feed into a database. (I only need US airports with instrument approach procedures.) Thanks, rg

My SR22 partners want to install XM weather to the tune of about $10k. I'm not convinced it's worthwhile. The plane is based in Southern California where we don't tend to get the kind of squirrelly weather they get east of the Mississippi. In the summer we'll get isolated thunderstorms over the...

The clouds rolled in to SoCal last week so I wanted to go fly some approaches, but I had fallen out of currency the week before so I couldn't go. It occurred to me that one can easily get into a situation where you can have quite a bit of recent IFR experience but still not be current. The...