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First single pilot IFR by
Wizard of Draws
October 23, 2004 12:00 1.6 hrs. (1.0 actual)
First solo IFR, 2 approaches in actual!
A warm overcast day with a slight breeze. Everything was reporting broken
skies from 2200 up to 8000 where it was supposed to be overcast. A few
patches of blue sky here and there made the "occasional IFR along...
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New and improved WX Brief by
Wizard of Draws
Now with editable fields for 'permanent' information such as your name, tail
number, home base, etc., per request, and FREE at:
http://www.wizardofdraws.com/main/wxbrief.html
It has been tested in Acrobat 5 & 6. Please let me know of any problems you
may have with it, although I can make no...
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Checkride bust (long) by
Wizard of Draws
July 11, 2004 7:30 1.8 hours
Instrument flight test (oral passed 6/25/04, no flight test per WX)
Today was the 4th rescheduled test date, with yesterday afternoon being
weathered out yet again by thunderstorms and low ceilings over the N.C.
mountains. We felt that today would be a better day if we...
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Safety Pilots? by
Wizard of Draws
I rent and fly 172s out of Gainesville, GA (KGVL). I used to fly out of 47A
and had a number of safety pilots available there (too far to be convenient
for them now), but this FBO is fairly new and doesn't have a list put
together yet of pilots that can safety for me.
Anyone know of a good place...
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FAA OUTSOURCED AIR CONTROL VIDEO by
WolfRat
FAA OUTSOURCED AIR CONTROL VIDEO
The FAILED Aviation Administration saving a few dollars..
(WITH YOUR LIFE)
http://themainbang.typepad.com/blog/2007/12/when-air-traffi.html
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December 20th 07 10:13 PM
by WolfRat
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The FAA is marching toward sole dependence on GPS. by
WolfRat
The FAA is marching toward sole dependence on GPS. The FAA
engineers and controllers are screaming from the
mountaintops PLEASE do not single thread North American
airspace navigation on satellite only. Yes GPS is awesome.
Yes GPS has and will change our lives. But the signal is
small and...
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December 25th 07 05:48 PM
by LWG
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Open letter from a retired FAA controller by
WolfRat
If you are eligible for retirement from the FAA I hope you
are counting the hours until January 3, 2008 (for CSRS
employees.) For FERS employees, the magic day is December
31, 2007 according to this article.
But regardless of which date you choose---you should choose
one of them and GET LOST....
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December 23rd 07 05:00 PM
by WolfRat
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Descending through a thin icing layer by
Wyatt Emmerich
Let's say you take off on a long cross country with no forecast of icing. By
the time you arrive at your destination, a 2,000-foot layer exist below you
with temps of 30 F. You are getting low on fuel. Is it legal to descend
through the thin layer even if you are in an airplane without known icing?
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Garmin 530 Fatal Error by
Wyatt Emmerich
My flight instructor is quite upset. He says every single one recurrent
pilots is making the same potentially fatal mistake. When they reach MDA or
the MAP, they hit the OBS/SUSP button as soon as it lights up. The Garmin
530 immediately paints a magenta line to the hold waypoint....
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WxWorx by
Wyatt Emmerich
After struggling with my EchoFlight Orbcom datalink, I gave up. Forty minute
nexrad data, when it worked at all, didn't help me much. Lo and behold, they
now have a Wxworx interface, which I just installed today. Within two
minutes I have all the weather data in the entire U.S. in high-res...
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Different WAAS altitude readings by
Wyatt Emmerich
My Garmin 296 indicates 330 MSL at KHKS, which is correct. My Echo Flight
GPS indicates 140 MSL. Both are locked on to WAAS.
How can I have such a large discrepancy? Both units seem to be functioning
properly other than this.
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Inaccurate airspeed indicator by
Wyatt Emmerich
I had a my two-year transponder/static system check while visiting my mother
in San Antonio. When I departed, I noticed the airspeed didn't come up like
it should. I attributed this to shifting winds and assumed I had a slight
tailwind. Then in cruise, I did my normal operating performance check....
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Nexrad versus on-board radar by
Wyatt Emmerich
Flying back from Atlanta to Jackson, my Echo Flight finally received its
downloaded Nexrad data. It showed me flying right in the middle of a big
blotch of red. I look outside the window. I'm in light 40 F light drizzle
with ceilings of about 6000 above a broken 2000 layer. I turn on...
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Victor Airways in Clearance by
Wyatt Emmerich
I fly with a Garmin 530. Great box, but I cannot for the life of me
understand why they would fail to include Victor Airways. Anyway, I often
get a clearance such as 210BA cleared to Yodoo, Clear City, Victor 245,
Bogur.
Now if I program the Garmin 530 for Yodoo, Clear City, Bogur, 19 times our
of...
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Turbo Alternator by
Wyatt Emmerich
Anybody had any experience with the Turbo Alternator? It is a wind-driven
fan, about 7 pounds, which drops down from your wind in the event of an
electrical failure. It puts out about 15-20 amps--enough to drive all your
instruments.
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January 19th 04 02:35 PM
by EDR
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Who's Boss? by
Wyatt Emmerich[_2_]
I'm flying into my home base KHKS at night in a single engine airplane. At
no point have I been outside of glide range to an airport. I am VFR shooting
a practice full approach in Class C airspace going into a Class D airport.
The controller wants me to descend to 2,000 feet five miles before...
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LPV versus LNAV/VNAV versus LNAV+V by
Wyatt Emmerich[_2_]
Searching the newsgroup archives, I have been unable to find the technical
distinction between LPV, LNAV/VNAV and LNAV+V approaches. I do not mean the
legal and procedural differences. I mean what are the technical differences
of the GPS that makes one more accurate than the other. In other...
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December 17th 07 01:38 AM
by No Name
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Instrument training by
xxx
I've got about 6 hours now and find it not the slightest bit
fun.
Can anyone remind me why I'm inflicting this on myself?
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May 24th 05 11:04 PM
by Jose
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Light single into KBOS, KPVD, or KIAD? by
xyzzy
Looks like this Friday I may be picking up a family member on the way
to KHYA. I'll be leaving from KTTA in NC and we're trying to decide
which airport would be better to pick up a pax at in a C172. The
choices are KBOS, KPVD, or KIAD (she's in Syracuse and will have to
fly commercial to one of...
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