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Hi all. I might attempt a flight from Ann Arbor KARB, to Chicago Midway KMDW in a few days. I have a question about the Midway Cicero two departure. There is an "obstacle" and a "vectors" version of this DP. Lets say I get that DP as part of my clearance, with a departure on runway 4R. The...

Hello all, Anybody know of an available function in the KLN-89B that shows 'velocity made good?' That is, if you are not flying directly toward a waypoint, what is the closing velocity? Groundspeed, as reported, is relative to the velocity vector, so that isn't the correct figure. Why? you ask. ...

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Hurricane Ike's outerband clouds passing through. Can we say windshear? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7lKvYfSwk Needless to say, kept my two feet planted firmly on the planet Earth this weekend!

Has anyone alse tried to use GPS in this area? Mine showed current location pretty accurate (within 1/4 mile) but indicated track wallowed +/- 20 degrees from actual. What sort of degradation tests are being run that wil affect GPS this way? No outages encountered, just misleading track...

Yesterday was one of those sopping wet, unstable Gulf Coast spring days and I needed to get an Angel Flight couple from Mobile to Jennings, LA (3R7, west of Lafayette) in the afternoon. By the time we were ready to leave BFM at noon, the NEXRAD on our route looked like a cheap Hawaiian luau shirt...

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...

Copying over some information from the GNS480-users yahoo group. The poster claims that he received this information from Garmin customer support. Garmin apparently requests that this information be disseminated. Funny, why don't they just put it on their web site? Anyway: ----- begin quote...

Took off Saturday morning at 6:30 still very dark. Got my IFR clearance in the air and soon was in solid IMC. Some clouds were nasty black. Got course deviation don't like to bounce my plane around. 2 hours into the flight the clouds were not as nasty. 30 minutes later I landed at SGJ for fuel....

Folks, I'M about to start flying again, and so am giving the 3600a a serious look! I currently have one of the original 3600, which is nearly invisible when outdoors. I notice that the 3600a now has a transflective TFT, and so I'm hoping that somebody has tried it and can comment on how visible...

During a training lesson last Sunday out of KOAK I attached a camcorder to the dash of the club's new Cessna 182. In the first clip you'll see us passing through a layer at 1000 AGL to get on top. The second video shows our flight from Byron back to Oakland, finishing with the ILS 27R approach....

Study: High Risk of Catastrophic Runway Collisions in U.S. Airports WASHINGTON — There is "a high risk of a catastrophic runway collision occurring in the United States" because of faltering federal leadership, malfunctioning technology and overworked air traffic controllers, congressional...

July 12, 2006 FAA Preparing to Give Away Annual Pay Raises Again Today we learned that the FAA is again planning to spend the ..1% of the annual OSI they held back from the January pay raise. In a bold effort to alienate more employees and drive morale even lower, the Agency will again hand...

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Hello: I am having a difficult time finding a club to join in Washington DC metro area. I can fly out of Leesburg, Manassas or Gaithersburg or any other nearby airport. I fly Cessnas and am instrument rated. I would apprecaite if you could point me to such clubs. Please respond via email to...

This is my second year using the Jepp paper approach plates and performing the tedious year-end checklist for my Northeast US subscription. The first year I needed exactly 40 sheets sent (their limit for my region), do mostly to my filing mistakes throughout the year. As a goal, I vowed to do...

There is just about a month before the new instrument rating PTS takes effect on October 1. This is a major re-write with standards for GPS and autopilot coupled approaches (now required if the aircraft is equipped), guidelines for partial panel approaches in aircraft with glass cockpits,...

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This is not just for controllers. Will it help if I file in the remarks "VFR GPS" I file 172/U Will I get more direct to commands. I still fly VOR to VOR but sometimes I am out of range, but still get proceed direct. Hank