About a year after I started the initial training I finally passed my checkride last week. The cross country hours took me forever to build up. I finished that off with a nice flight from Hawthorne, CA to Oakland to see the Dodgers play across the bay. The oral went perfectly, it was only about...

I took an AA flight from SAN to ORD Tuesday that looped up through Utah and Wyoming, maybe to catch strong upper winds. But I got to wondering how airline flight plans get planned. Does the pilot do this, or the airline? I presume that ATC overrides theirs as they do mine from time to...

How can I find out where the FAA thinks MEPTE is? On the NOS IFR charts it's charted as in the water (or over it), but when I fly it, it's over land. I know the NOS charts are not all that accurate (for topography) but I'd like to know where it is, for a certification flight for our GPS. Any...

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I think this is a well worn question, but my digging isn't getting an answer for my specific scenario(s). Aircraft does NOT have a WAAS GPS. It could have an older IFR certified (just not Sole Navigation) GPS. 1. File Airways/VORs (within 40/25 mile service radius). Upon departure, request & get...

I had the upgrade installed a little while ago and it seems to have impacted my screen. After the radio has been running a while, I notice that when I change pages, the previous page seems to have 'burned in' to the screen for a few seconds and gradually fades away. I also found that on...

Would you ever be directed into the traffic pattern while approaching an airport for landing IFR? That is, would you be told to make right/left downwind or right/left traffic for landing? If so, what's the procedure? I was under the impression that, if you are IFR, you will be given...

I was flying in Northern California the other day, VFR without a cloud in the sky, and asked Oakland Center for a practice ILS approach to Chico, a nearby towered airport. I said I would terminate the approach with a missed approach and then depart the area without flight following. The...

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We are getting a brand new ILS 26 at KANE and I just downloaded the plate. The miss is what I expected to see and is a hold at the GEP "Gopher" VOR a few miles to the west. But there is also a hold depicted at the PNM NDB, which is a long ways away. That hold is not mentioned on the plate. I...

http://www.invensense.com/news/112806.html The short take on this: MEMS or micromechanical technology, basically integrated circuit technology used to make microscopic mechanical features, having been used to make $1 accelerometers, is now being used to make $1 gyroscopes, with a full internal...

Yesterday, I stopped by a small VFR airport in western NY state and struck up a conversation with a few locals. During the interesting aviation chat I learned that the FAA had been to their airport a year or so ago performing a survey that would hopefully result in a GPS approach. On average, how...

On 8/15/2005 11:21, Peter wrote: FAR 61.65 details this (A) A distance of at least 250nm along airways or ATC directed routing; I was told to measure the map distance between the airports, but I'm not sure this is correct. I was also told no to count the distance flown in, for example, a...

I think I flew through a very localized low pressure area, perhaps six or eight miles in diameter and two tenths of an inch of mercury deep. Last Thursday flying South past Kansas City, about 1615Z, IMC, 6000 feet, Kansas City baro 30.14 on autopilot (KFC200), altitude hold. I was vectoring East...

I have quietly read this newsgroup for the past year. It has been very helpful. During that time I was studying for my IFR rating. We'll today I passed it on my first attempt. What a relief! 1) Autopilot GPS/VOR KCMA 2) ILS KOXR

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Hi All, I'm looking for recommendations for a low battery warning voltage level. I was going to use 12.8V - is this liable to be triggered by noise/dips in the bus voltage? My guess is when heaters or motors kick in there could be a momentary drop due to high current that could trigger my low...

Peter wrote: I've just had a big increase in copper; wonder where copper comes from. The engine is an IO-540-C4D5D, 500 hrs since new in 2002. I had the same thing happen. Copper comes from brass bushings. In my case the wrist pin broke in the middle and the bushing was being destroyed. I...

The ongoing "discussion" of the LEX accident reminds me of an incident I experienced many years ago of potential pilot error. I was a passenger on commercial flight on a smaller airplane (make and model not recalled but it was twin-engine turboprop). As we were making the approach to land, I...

Hello fellow pilots, I need help finding a preferred route from KPBI - KGNV. I have to do a flight plan for my ground course and can't find the route. Also, do i have to calculate for winds as I do for VFR flights? How would I do that? Thank you very much for your help.