This is purely theoretical - it is not something I am planning for next Saturday : If you are to fly over an expanse of water or other inhospitible terrain, for a distance long enough to require re-fueling immediately prior (US-Europe ferry, for example) - You watch to see that they put the right...

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Hello, Are you legal if you have one oft those electronic flight bags with all the plates/maps? Or do you still need the paper ones in the plane? -dr

Yesterdays flight with me as a passenger and video devoted to our female pilots :-) that fly around in the skyways and byways as they are a rare bird on frequency around my way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru6p-5dP5D0 Allen

One minute 46 seconds of your time will have you "only imagine". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uP17DO1U3c Combination of flying, weather and nature scenes. Hopefully not only worthy sharing with our aviation brethren, but anybody that enjoys nature as a whole. Allen

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wrote: The release file is attached... DO NOT OPEN THE FILE ATTACHED TO THIS POST. It is the W32/Torvil virus.

I see that CQX has a clearance delivery frequency, so IFR ops there apparently don't require a phone call to FSS (excluding the filing, of course). But when IFR out of KCDW, I can expect release delays because CDW departures are treated with lower priority than TEB, EWR, and probably...

Severe thunderstorm at my house. Needless to say, glad I was wishing to be up there then wishing to be down here :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8XDzUbVT7Y I would have stayed out much longer but the trees were making some ominous cracking noises that you can hear on the video...

During the summer months, during which the stratus sits off the Northern California coast threatening to move inland, the KSFO ATIS frequently contains a comment that reads "FG IN GAP W". Via empirical observation, I'm assuming that this means that there's fog in the gap between the hills due west...

I got a much thicker than usual packet from Jeppesen yesterday, and the bulk of the changes were the removal of dozens of NDB IAPs. I had heard that the FAA was looking to decomission a lot of "redundant" NDB appoaches, but was surprised to see that they were really gone so soon. I guess there's...

Yesterday, I did something I don't get to do much any more -- just headed off on a trip with no particular purpose in mind other than it was a nice day and I wanted to go flying. I looked at a chart and found an airport I'd never been to before, Claremont NH, and off I went. I did enough...

Paul, David Powell strikes again :-D Lynne

The single threaded fallacy GPS Sole Source Civil Aviation Navigation? Ask Wong Lee in Beijing what he thinks about that? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/wchina226.xml

The other day I was doing multiple approaches under the hood. I needed an extra minute or two to setup for the next approach and requested a "5 mile turn." From my understanding, this means that while on downwind to not turn me until 5 miles from the FAF. The controller didn't understand. I...

How much separation is required by the tower for a/c taking off and landing? I was in position and holding on 34 at Asheville, NC (AVL) today, with a plane on final, me in position and holding, and a 182 in front of me taking off. Before his wheels left the runway, I was cleared for take-off. I...

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VFR this time. The French Aviation Authority publishes really excellent VFR approach plates. They are very serious about it - the revision cycles are monthly, and the level of detail and accuracy is impressive. Nevertheless, there is one airport I don't really want to fly into. Something...

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Question for the controllers he The KMIC VOR-A is a pretty vanilla approach. The FAF is the Gopher VOR (GEP) about 5 miles north of the field. The missed procedure is to go back to GEP and hold north, left turns -- depicted as a dotted race track on the plate. (The FAA link seems to be broken...