Today we have uploaded our new "WinNotam" software tool: - Download and organize worldwide Notams for locations of your choice - Display in OUTLOOK style window, print at your discretion - Automatic download function with selectable time intervals - Send e-mail when new Notams have arrived - Setup...

I'm looking for a good online source for POH's for my students. I want them to purchase a POH for the plane they fly so they have their own copy. Any leads, links or help is appreciated. Google doesn't give me many leads. -- Jim Burns III CFI Remove "nospam" to reply

'Spin Doctor' Bill Kershner dies at 77 Pilot, flight instructor, and aviation author William K. Kershner, 77, died January 8 in Sewanee, Tennessee, after a prolonged battle with cancer. He soloed an Aeronca Defender from Clarksville, Tennessee's Outlaw Field - a grass strip at the time - in 1945...

Greetings, Would somebody be kind enough to answer a question from this first-time poster? Over the years, I've accumulated several dozen hours in Frasca and AST 300 simulators...of course, legally classified as ground trainers. I have been under the impression that time in these ground trainers...

I'm asking everyone in the group to please take the time to visit the FAA site and post a comment or two on the proposed National Air Tour Safety Standards Public Meeting. I was just there and disappointed in the lack of comments. http://www1.faa.gov/avr/arm/rulemakingforum.cfm?nav=part -- Jim...

I've been told that it is possible to load successive approaches in the flight plan page but have been un able to either figure out how to do it or find any info in the manual about it. For instance if I wanted to create a flight plan to take off at one airport, fly to a second airport then...

Anybody in the group have any CFI-I checkride stories/hints/advice that they'd like to share? I'm working towards my CFII now. -- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply

jbo, I'm roughly in the same position as you and I've found that reading the AIM really helps more than ever. I've been teaching a instrument rating ground school and honestly the answers to most of the students questions are in the AIM. Although the main objective is for the students to prepare...

As many of you probably know, recent midwest weather has been a steady stream of low overcast, misty, and foggy days prohibiting most VFR flight and making IFR flights a spin of the icing roulette wheel. I thought it may be a good opportunity for us to review NASA's icing online...

Does anybody know the typical range of the DME signal when DME is installed in conjunction with a localizer or ILS? I shot an ILS yesterday that had it's compass locator decommissioned some time ago, so now the approach requires a VOR or DME, which is fine, because we've got both in addition to...

We've been using www.youcanbookit.com for scheduling our airplane. So far it's been easy and worked great. The best part about it was it was a free/commercial based site. Unfortunately the site has gone down and the owner says it isn't likely to be put back online. What web based scheduleing...

Will be in row 547 of the N40 parking area on the north side of Rwy 9/27. Jay and a small gaggle arrived together and are also parked in row 547. Jim

Since my son was born 10 years ago, and my daughter 7 years ago, it seems like my annual vacations have consisted primarily of playing "People Transporter" and "Bill Payer" with absolutely no time for myself. Don't get me wrong, I love my family and I love doing it for the kids but after 10 years...

I don't have my AIM here at work, and I'm on dial up, so I won't attempt to download it, but I'm looking at the ILS 32 into KMQY Smyrna TN. It says ADF REQUIRED which I understand is to identify the IAF which is the SWZ NDB not associated with a marker beacon, inside the outer marker. This is the...

How do you update the GPS database? Does it have a portable uploader with a CD-ROM? How long does it take? I have to keep a fleet of King Air arcraft updated. They have an obsolete Interstate GPS system. The portable uploader is floppy-disk based. You have to feed in a set of floppies, and the...

I had a question today that I've never considered, and need the experience of the group. Are there airports with ILS approaches such that if the Glide Slope component failed or went OTS, the entire approach would be un-executable by regulation? I've always assumed that with the GS OTS I'd just...

This question is the result of the wrong runway issue at LEX last weekend. Not having flown an EFIS or EFMS myself, I'm not sure of the "into position checklist items". For example, in a standard steam-gauge panel one of the last things we check is to align the directional gyro with the runway...

So far, every time I come out of ROG and request flight following to it doesn't matter where, I get a discrete squawk that allows departure to hand me off to Memphis Center, or Dallas, or Kansas City. Coming out of LIT however I've never been given anything except a local code and then about 15...

I've followed the lengthy and somewhat heated discussion speculating responsibility in the LEX accident, but I've not seen any thread on improvements other than a few comments about traffic lights on runways, or more people added to the system to double-check the double-checkers. I'm interested in...

I need to go to Downers Grove the week and am considering taking a 182RG from the local FBO here in Bentonville. I thought Schaumburg Regional might be close, but it shows OTS indefinitely on the web site I use. Next choice might appear to be Dupage. Anyone from around their with some suggestions?...