Please understand that I am a geezer, and getting crotchety in my old age. I have Summit Aviation's CD-ROM that includes just about every piece of paper issued by the FAA...regulations, AIM, PTS, ACs, etc etc etc. I have searched this resource for two words: flair and flair. My Webster's Ninth had...

I have a Garmin 340 panel and the installer put a music input jack for it. So, I tried plugging my portable MP3 player output into the music jack. At maximum volume on the MP3 player, the music was almost completely inaudible. Does the signal need to be pre amplified in some way, or did the...

Does anyone have any information on whether Garmin is planning terrain data for Garmin 430 and whether it will be upgradable in a current installation.

I was told by a co-worker that a new Part 91-mandatory compliance reg has come out, requiring all airplanes to meet a min. climb gradient of 2.5% for second stage climb gradient, unless published otherwise. In other words, if no specific gradient is published for XYZ airport, then the airplane must...

I'll be flying from Ottawa to Philadelphia next weekend for a week-long conference, and would be grateful for hints and information from people familiar with the U.S. portion of the route. I couldn't find any preferred low-level routing in Canadian or U.S. sources -- I also tried Syracuse to...

I'm about 14 hours into my IFR training with 11 of those on the sim. I had to go to LAS for work (non-aviation) for 3 weeks. I came back and was dying to go flying. Well I expected the worst. I hadn't flown a plane in nearly 2 months since I was working on the IFR stuff. First time flying...

Today's 1.6 hour flight to the Northeast practice area compressed to 4 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CzHdoNw-E Every IFR pilot should do this this type of flight at least one time in their flying career. I would still be flying had the clouds not evaporated :-)

When flying a VOR approach in which the FAF is defined by the VOR, is it appropriate to start the descent to the MAP, or next stepdown, immediately after overflying the VOR or should I wait until I have positive course guidance for the final approach segment? I ask because it can sometimes take...

"PS" wrote in message ... good one. any more? five more uploaded as requested, there will be more coming in the next couple of days http://www.maxho.com/videos HECTOP

The ILS 16R (http://tinyurl.com/353gd5) at Reno (KRNO) has the notation: "8500 to GS intercept 181 (2) and LOC (8.8)" I don't understand this. It appears this means that GS intercept will occur in 2 miles on a 181 heading and that LOC intercept will occur in 8.8 miles. Neither appears to be true...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYuQa_UcwZA 2 approaches into Meridian MS first being an ILS approach. View segmented every 10 to 15 seconds from instrument to outside view. Second approach is a visual into KMEI on runway 4 I didn't have my patch cord with me therefore no ATC COMS in this video.

For the ATC guys: I frequently have departed VFR, but then do a popup if needed. Frequently these are sortof foreseeable possibilities, but often enough I have been able to proceed VFR all the way. I've often wondered just how much of a hassle it is to ATC to have to deal with a popup.

For those who managed to escape all notice that the paper FAA certificates were being turned over to plastic cards, as publicized for the last two years: your paper flying license is now kindling, as from midnight last night! Regards Brian Whatcott with a brand new license to fly....

Can anyone point me to web or print resources with discussion of how to best utilize two pilots in small airplanes? Who does what, etc. I have found lots of airline-level material but really nothing that relates to flying light singles. Or maybe someone who regularly flies with a pilot spouse? ...

All, I was once told that instrument procedures (i.e. approaches) are published in text form, and then rendered into NOS charts (and a similar process for Jeppesen). 1) Is this true? 2) If so, is this "raw" data available to the public somewhere? I'm looking for something similar to the ATA-100...

I've been away from this newsgroup for quite some time, so forgive me if this has already been covered. The other day, one of my colleagues pointed out something I hadn't noticed in the latest set of approach plates, which came out at the end of December. Its on page A2, under "Aircraft Approach...

Nice VFR day for flying and doing some landing work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzaeqwn1GJ4 "Plane having" fun, just wanted to commit aviation and enjoy the sensation of flight. Figure to practice some slips to landings and no flap landings after slow flighting it in the practice area

What type of checkride was it? I would have asked the inspector to identify the regulation that was infracted, or identify how the action compromised safety. It's true the controllers have expectations (as mentioned by Joe) but I don't think that in and of itself constitutes a bust. But, then...

I'm trying to improve my database generators for CoPilot and other programs (see http://navaid.com/ and http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/CoPilot/ for details). The problem I'm trying to deal with is that the FAA is totally inconsistent on how they name waypoints, DAFIF isn't any better, and there are...

I have a Garmin 530 and a KAP 140 autopilot in my 182. I was practicing VOR approaches with the CDI on the 530 set to GPS. I noticed that the autopilot would warn that it was about to disengage when I reached the FAF. It does this consistently. If I put the CDI in VLOC, the autopilot would not try...