I was just reviewing the new Elmira One departure procedure. I think the government has let GPS go to their heads. Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, it specifies the initial heading out to TWO decimal places! The procedure is pretty trivial as it basically says to fly runway heading to 4000...

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:31:20 +0000, wrote: I have a KLN94 and have been offered one of the old Sandisk compact flash writers (USB) that Bendix King used to sell. I know that if one downloads the data into a laptop and uses the cable to transfer it to the KLN94, that data...

USA Today says Crossfield missing in a 210 over Georgia in TS. Anybody have details?

I was flying a practice approach today and loaded the approach (Full approach GPS 20 at RUQ, Rowan County, NC) into my Garmin 300XL. I flew the approach from initial fix to the final fix but the approach never armed and consequently never activated. The approach showed as active on the route page...

Hello, I'm sure I should know the difference between all of these... but it kinda starts to blur together. I'm sure there are others on here who'd like a refresher. Anyone out there want to explain the differences to us? -dr

Having just crossed the border, and visited a few non-towered airports in the US, I'm afraid I may have done some injustice by using the PCL pilot controlled lighting a bit too much. Knowing the somewhat precarious financial state of those airports, and the electricity hog the lights can be, I'm...

Recently I flew a 172 to SBA. ILS 7 was in use, wind 250 at 7. The runway is quite long so I wasn't concerned about the tailwind. However, if I had been concerned about the wind direction, is it best to ask the approach controller for a different runway? Or would the tower deal with it? I...

http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap496/ Just as I said in an earlier post. The price appears to be $2,395.00. Kobra

Out here in the Rocky Mountain states, those of us who are instrument rated rarely get a chance to practice our skills in real IMC since "real IMC" usually implies either thunderstorms (summer) or severe icing condiditions and blowing snow (winter). However, today I was given a real treat by the...

Hello, I am a VFR pilot and I currently have a 96C in which I loaded some 700 user waypoints, neede in Italy to find VFR reporting points and airstrips. My new club's airplane will have a Garmin GNS430. I contacted Garmin in order to know if it would be possible to load waypoints through the serial...

Hello! The new version 3.0 of Seattle Avionics's Voyager just came out, and it has a nice moving map. I want to start using it on my laptop, but need to buy a GPS, first. SA recommends the Pharos GPS360, but I always thought the Garmin GPS 10 may be the better option. Does anyone have...

I have seen some GPS Notams about likely unreliability in certain areas over certain very narrowly-defined periods of time. Can anyone tell me what sort of known activities create these conditions? -Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan

Jack Cunniff wrote: Did you ever wonder what an airport environment would look like before you got there? Sure you did, it's part of preparing for a flight. I know this sounds like spam, but I'll bet that folks are really going to be impressed with Google's new Earth viewer, downloadable...

I have acquired a KX-155, KLN-89B and a 209A indicator. The 209A has a built-in relay to switch between the GPS and NAV. I'm trying to figure out what 'annunciation' is _required_ for this setup. The MD41 annunciator is about $950. I can get the control head only for about $700. The real...

I am tired - just landed from a 12 hour, 20 minute flight from LAX to Taiwan. I got a good laugh though today when our PDC was INOP, and the F/O had to call to get the clearance. It was for sure the longest clearance I've ever heard! Here it...

I'm looking for suggestions for a school to do an IFR finish-up course in December or January. I live in Massachusetts and while I don't mind flying actual IFR there's entirely too much ice in the clouds around here that time of year. A break from the winter chill wouldn't be bad, either. Dave...

Hello! I will be getting a tablet PC (thinking about the Motion Computing LE800), and will be buying a flightplanning software package for IFR soon. I've been looking around at all the different options (Seattle Avionics Voyager/GlassView), RMS FlightsoftPro/Vista, FlightPrep, EverywhereMap, etc....

I got my instrument rating at an accelerated school in California. Overall, I think my instruction went well, and I was very happy with the results. I passed my checkride in a Piper Lance, and had no troubles. There was one part though that never quite made sense to me. My instructor told me to...

I had a strange experience with our CNX-80 earlier today. Heading back into HPN, we tried to bring up the approach frequency 126.4, and discovered it wasn't in the database. There were the normal secondary freqs (120.8 and 124.65), but no 126.4. Then I looked up DXR (Danbury, right next...

Hey, I don't post many of my adventures due to the flaming so no one tell me I am crazy cuz I already know I am for accepting the flight...to the location!! Hears the deal Maine to Beirut, Lebanon or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!!! Still not 100% sure on the exact destination but may be even Cyprus...