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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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Flying through the Atlantic Seaboard by
xyzzy
I am considering taking a flight from central North Carolina to Cape
Cod in late March of this year. Up until all of my flying has been in
the Southeast, with IAD being as far north as I've ventured.
Playing with the AOPA planner the route looks pretty interesting -- go
just east of the DC ADIZ,...
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Intersting tidbit about the Miami seaplane crash and fuel reserves by
xyzzy
from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/
"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."
Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
they would be within legal IFR (or...
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IFR student: circling approach struggles by
xyzzy
All through my primary training I learned never to turn more than 30
degree bank in the pattern, and keep that ball centered. For four
years and about 230 hours I've flown by that doctrine.
Now I'm doing instrument and on circling approaches I'm learning that to
keep it close enough in on...
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August 1st 05 12:54 AM
by RjL
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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