I am tired - just landed from a 12 hour, 20 minute flight from LAX to Taiwan. I got a good laugh though today when our PDC was INOP, and the F/O had to call to get the clearance. It was for sure the longest clearance I've ever heard! Here it...

Flyers, I just want some of your thoughts on this. My plane partner and I went out last night to do some practice instrument approaches. He wore the hood and I was the right-seat safety pilot. ATC was not too busy and it was a nice VFR night. First, after we asked for a practice ILS 24 into...

I'm thinking about upgrading my Sigtronics S-20 headset. Right now, I'm considering the Lightspeed QFR SOLOc and Lightspeed QFR XCc (with ANR). I like the price of the passive headset and I also like that it has a pretty high amount of muffling (28.7 db according to the selasfolk). But, if the...

I was flying into KSNY (Sidney, NE) after shooting an approach into KAKO (Akron, CO) and requested the VOR DME Rwy 12 approach. I told center that I wanted to do the full approach complete with the DME arc, as I needed practice with these (currently an instrument student). The controller cleared me...

On our second leg home from Michigan to New York yesterday, I was the PIC and Rick took care of the communication. We filled the following route from KBQR Buffalo-Lancaster) to KPOU (Dutchess County Airport) BUF V14 BEEPS V34 HNK V167 SPECL Departing KBQR VFR, we picked up our clearance...

More gibberish and sensless unfounded babble. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:22:38 -0700, "Tarver Engineering" wrote: "Richard Kaplan" wrote in message news:669da89399b1403eaf276544232ee932@TeraNews...

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Thanks for the good product review Dan. I have had the same experience with my setup. The install was easy and once you convinced the XMRadio Customer Service Rep that they had the package you wanted things went smoothly. I had a Fujitsu Tablet PC that had a great screen, but it was just too...

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All, I have a WX-1000E Stormscope (New, sill in the box) that is for sale over at E-Bay. It has a starting price of $3,850. The unit retails for $14,000. If anyone is interested they can take a look at: http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2BE12B15 Thanks, Lenny Sawyer

2 years ago we were forced to replace (for $600) our MX20 display because it had vertical lines. At the time, we were led to believe these were "growing pains" and that what is now Garmin AT had re-designed the MX20 box so display failures would be less common. The new displays even came with an 18...

Just found out that the 2MB card we've all been using to update our GX 55, 60's etc will *not* work for the next data update. Jepp (to its credit) will *give* you a new 4mb card in return for your old one, but *act fast* since they are overwhelmed with requests and the deadline is fast approaching.

I'm transitioning from Jepp charts to NACO. One useful thing that Jepp seems to produce that I can't find on NACO are IFR area charts for the smaller cities (e.g. Seattle, San Diego). Do `guvmint versions of these exist? TIA, Lee Elson

Sorry for being a little off topic, but I think you will see why this group is a good one for this post. On Feb 18, 2007, I visited a pilot who lives in the Oakland, CA hills about 5 nm north of KOAK. He related a story of having seen multicolored flashing lights in the air at night in the...

I have an instrument rating and just took a instrument simulator at a local community college where I flew about 25 hours of time on an Elite PCATD. I was not 'IFR current' prior to taking the class. Can I use this time to become current again? The instructor didn't think that the time was...

I purchased the Raytheon G36 trainer software from Garmin. After attaching a new Saitek Cyborg Evo and verifying the controls, I gave it a try. The heading only seems to change when the rudder is activated: banks leave the heading unchanged. Anyone else have this problem? Also, even with a heading...

91.109 prohibits some types of instruction without "fully functioning dual controls". Can anyone point to an FAA source for how this phrase is defined? While throw over yokes are dealt with in 91.109, what about dual brakes and rudders?

I'd like some input from those of you who are familiar with the working ATC environment. In a situation where a transmission to/from ATC is "interfered with" by a second transmission I've always believed that it is useful to let all parties know that the tranmission was blocked, even if I...

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...