I got interested in the effects of homing on a waypoint as opposed to tracking. I have seen the illustrations and have understood the concept for some time, but I have never seen any numbers. If you are interested here is the results of my playing around with...

Yesterday I was on an IFR flight about 50 miles from destination. The area was getting covered with TS, including my alternate 20 miles futher west. Home base was 150 mi to the east. I realized I might have to reverse course to escape, but did not have enough fuel to get home for sure. So, the...

I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your IFR rating. Just curious.

I don't fly too many coupled approaches, so forgive me if this is a simplistic question. We were flying a coupled VFR/practice ILS in a Debonair with a Century-2000 A/P. The heading bug was set about 10 degrees to the left of where it should have been, resulting us tracking to the left of...

I haven't heard a peep from anyone in aviation about this, but now it appears the Northwest can't survive without a NASCAR track, and yesterday the finalist was announced. Marysville, just a hair south of Arlington (AWO). From the...

I'm considering joining a flying club this week. This one's the closest club to where I live, the members, the planes, and the online scheduling system seem to be great, and I think I'm ready to make the commitment (e.g., buy a share in the fleet). Since I've never joined a club before (have...

Hi! I have a SL30 and a GNS 430 in my plane. They use the same antenna via a splitter. When I dial in the same VOR in both units the SL30 catches up the radials always between 20 and 50 nautical miles earlier than the GNS 430! (Altitude about 3000 ft, flat area) Is this normal? What is your...

Hi all, a question that has probably been asked before, but I couldn't find it in Google: Is it allowed to use an IFR-approach-certified GPS instead of a DME in a LOC-DME or VOR-DME approach that does not have a GPS-overlay? Thanks!

What about 8.33kHz, it was annonced for the CNX80, I read that they changed their mind and would add it to the GNS480 but together with an improvment of the transmitter output power. No news and no prices since. Any one hear something about that? thanks, Denis (LSGG)

I have an experimental airplane which now has a GX50 GPS and two comms, one nav. The second comm is having problems, so intend to replace it and the GX50 with either a CNX80 or a GNS430. Any comments on advantages of one over the other?? In particular, which unit has the best comm/ILS qualities,...

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My guess: he sent this to every newsgroup matching the regular expression '.fr$'. -- David Brooks "John Cuteaux" wrote in message ... To learn French in France, I found this great school, located both in Annecy and Chambéry,...

I'm a long time AWM user and have been very satisfied to date. I will be upgrading to weather sometime near the end of the year. I have a friend who is looking to purchase something now. I've steered him to the AWM + XM WX solution, but both of us would like to see it in use before laying out a...

I had bid on a GNS430 and lost. A day after, an email stating the winner did not complete the transaction and I was being offered a "second chance offering". The email looked good, had "eBay" sort of format, but was a fraud; the buyer had completed the transaction. A week later, I won a bid on a...

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Gentlemen, I have made http://jidanni.org/comm/radio/programs/selcal : generate ICAO SELCAL tones just like on HF aviation radio using xmms on GNU/Linux. Purpose of this program: bring the sounds of air traffic control into one's living room to impress guests, I suppose.

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