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Well, after enduring the blisteringly cold, icy, snowy, and windy winter we've had up here in the Northeast, I _finally_ managed to get in some real, honest to goodness, solid IFR practice! It's been a couple of months since my last real instrument flight, but tonight, the conditions were finally...

Wow, that took forever it seemed like to show up in the database! I am getting ready to go do my Multi Engine & Single Engine Sea, I decided to put on hold the CFI after looking at Insurance Costs. Wow! It makes me wonder how many CFI's out there don't have Insurance becuse of the costs. DOI...

In his book "WeatherFlying," Captain Bob Buck offers this advice: First, fly from good weather to good weather; ceilings should be 1000 feet or higher, tops 7000 feet or lower. Takeoff and landing, of course, are in VFR conditions. Second, bad weather to good weather...take off into an overcast,...

Hi, Could anyone tell me how the final reserve for jets is calculated? I know it's the fuel to fly for 30 minutes at 1500ft AAL in ISA conditions at holding speed... But what weight do you use? Do you assume that contignency fuel is burnt (so gross weight = TOW - TRIP fuel - ALTN fuel) when...

It looks like rec.aviation.ifr is downing in a sea of "MI5 Persecution". Is there nothing that can be done to stem this tide? In the old days I would just killfile the person or a regexp against the title, but this is actually hard. Besides, I'm using Google to access usenet now. I've just never...

Anyone experiencing problems with this? Aside from the ADIZ and TFR crap. I filed an IFR from LVK to SAC yesterday via duats and the clearance never came available. The tower told me that only about half of the flight plans filed via DUATS come up. I found it strange. Back in 1999 when I was flying...

I'm going to be flying from ROC to BAF weekend after next. Just plugging the end points into Aeroplanner gives me a nice simple route V2 ALB V146, but I see that BAF has a STAR, SWEDE ONE. It's a bit longer than the simple route, and since I've never flown that direction I don't know if I should...

Being a freshly minted IFR pilot -- I am taking a trip from Dallas to Phoenix for Thanksgiving. I've got most of the trip figured out, my first stop is Abilene, but I am wondering about getting across Dallas: If I filed TKI (McKinney) direct ABI (Abilene) what would I get?

I'm going to DXR (Danbury) from ROC (Rochester) on Saturday. There is a STAR for Danbury, NOBBI THREE, that has a transition starting at Rockdale. Here's the question: Should I file the STAR, even though it is a little out of the way, or should I file a more direct route. If I file something more...

I seem to have read or been told once that, one can file an IFR flightplan with remark for VFR flight conditions when not instrument rated, or current, to get routing and practice within the system. Comments?

I have a question for the group. Im working on my IFR ticket, and will be finished in about another 2-3 months, depending on how much I fly (Im renting. so at $165/hr with instructor,, the $$$$ flow is very high right now) . I was told by one of the "old guys" at the airport that if I wanted to...

The installation of the GNS530 is complete. The learning is just begun. But since I now have equipment which allows it, what is the likelihood of receiving 'cleared as filed' if I file direct to a destination a few hundred miles away? Is this not what 'Free Flight' was supposed to be about? Is it...

There was a thread a while ago about filing direct, and the need to include a fix for each ARTCC boundary. Just thought I'd give my recent experience. I've been flying up and down from CA to the North West a bit lately. The V route from the Seattle area to the Bay Area is a horror. So when I came...

1. what's a VDP and how does one compute it. 2. how many phases of an approach (IAP) and how do you tell each from the other 3. what's a GRID MORA 4. what's a THINGS 5. what's the min ATC separation under IFR 6. drift-down?

Federal Aviation Administration Government Goon Squads trying to shut down free speech http://themainbang.typepad.com/blog/ This blog is known as the premier Air Traffic control blog in America. Apparently it has gotten under the skin of the FAA goon squads. This blog exposes on a daily...

ples list your most usefull weather sites for use in Flt planning thanks

Now that the WAAS minimums are going to be 200, same as ILS, and the first WAAS approaches are going to be overlaid over standard ILS approaches, the question arises: Which approach makes more sense to an ILS runway, use of the ILS, or the WAAS? Before you say "good ole ILS", consider: WAAS is...

I'm an Instrument Airplane student, and am having a disagreement with my instructor on one topic - that of Aircraft Approach Categories. According to 14 CFR Part 97.3 (b), it provides the speed ranges for the different aircraft categories (A-E). In all the documentation I've read, this "speed" is...