I just put our club's really nice ATC-610 on eBay. If you are interested in these you might want to take a look. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=26440&item=2488544493

I was checking out in a Civil Air Patrol 182T the other day and the check airman pulled the power on me. No big deal, but then he demonstrated how the glide improved when the propeller was pulled to low RPM. No one had ever showed that to me before. Question is: In retrospect it seems...

A friend just asked me what code to file with his KNS-80 RNAV. I told him that I thought it was /I but that I usually filed /A with a KNS-80 because I didn't want ATC to surprise me with an RNAV approach or some kind of weird RNAV routing. (I don't use a KNS-80 often enough to be really...

Has anyone compared the training discs from ASA and King? Recommendations? I am going to check out in a C182T/G1000 and may want to buy one of these. (I have seen the Sporty's disc -- it is tourist stuff.)

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Anybody know whether this is an airworthiness issue? I was flying CAP cadets today and discovered the problem. We have a kid taking a private ride on Monday and would not like to switch airplanes on him. Obviously it's not on the required VFR equipment list, but since without it you no longer...

Departing cross country out of the Minneapolis area in severe clear, I will usually ask for either flight following or will file. I depart from KMIC, which is under the 4000 foot shelf of the MSP bravo airspace. For example, Friday I am going from KMIC to KGPZ, which is a couple hundred miles to...

Gents, Though this is not strictly an IFR question, I am pretty sure that you have opinions that I would like to get. Subject is Lycoming O-360 engines. I have flown behind a number of them in Pipers and the POH instruction on carb heat is always "as required." Specifically there is no...

We are beginning upgrades of some club airplanes and want to put training software on one of the flight planning computers. I have downloaded the free package from Garmin but would like to consider options that are more tutorial and not just a simulator. I see that Sporty's lists some...

I recently got a tablet PC, HP TC1100, and a little bluetooth GPS receiver to go with it. Rode in the back seat of an Arrow this afternoon and played for a couple of hours with the APIC software. Lots of warts on APIC, one of which was missing airports. I'm in the Minneapolis area and just west...

Question for the controllers he The KMIC VOR-A is a pretty vanilla approach. The FAF is the Gopher VOR (GEP) about 5 miles north of the field. The missed procedure is to go back to GEP and hold north, left turns -- depicted as a dotted race track on the plate. (The FAA link seems to be broken...

Hangar flying today, one high-time CFII, MEI, etc. expressed concern with leaving the pitot heat on in warmer weather. Says he wants the heat in clouds so the pitot doesn't fill up with mist/moisture/water but he turns it off in the clear for fear of burning it out. I've never heard or read about...

The "Cheating the ILS" thread prompts my curiosity: I fly with a single G430 and rarely use the map display. Almost always I am set on the Nav1 "numbers" screen, which tells me pretty much everything I need to know. I have talked to a number of commercial pilots with lots of G430 experience,...

I have just one question for you Garmin GNS 430 owners: The 430, of course, can output both GPS and VOR data to a CDI indicator. However, what I'm wondering, is if you have two CDI's, can the 430 run both of them at the SAME TIME.. one CDI set to GPS output and the other CDI set to VOR...

complete beginner however have funds to get pilots training this course starts in september and i would like to know what to start on to study any suggestions thank you for being patient with a beginner kimmer

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("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...

("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...

I have just recently acquired a Garmin 430/WAAS for my Mooney 201. In practicing approaches to familiarize myself with the unit, I went up with an instructor to get some advice/tips. I had flown a GPS overlay approach (NDB/GPS Runway 5 KLWM, Lawrence MA) previously in VFR conditions and tracked the...

I actually posted this in another aviation newsgroup in which I actively post all the time but didn't get a reply... I assume because of the crash in Manhattan got everybody's attention. That being said, I'm still hoping for some insight from the more recently trained. ==== cut begins...