Any recommendations on the best Piper Arrow add-on for MSFS2004? I found a couple with google but the downloads don't seem to work. Doesn't have to be freeware. Mostly what I want is a reasonably accurate power model. I have ASA's On Top but the GPS is crummy and the power model has no...

Hi! I have a KMD 150 and would like to share some experience and infos about this unit. Who else is using this GPS in Europe? cu Maik

Just got my PPL 2 1/2 months ago and jumped in to IFR for a few reasons including the weather was crappy and I want as much actual as possible. Saturday went up in perfect VFR conditions. At least my CFI had a nice view out the window. I did ok but had been on a sim so i was a touch rusty in the...

I am sure this has been asked a hundred times, but can someone point me to a website that has a searchable archive of this newsgroup? I posted something last year (I think)...either here or on rec.aviation.owning...dealing with considering buying my next airplane. There were some really great...

I flew the KFWN VOR or GPS-A (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0506/05412VGA.PDF) this morning with a CNX-80. Annoyingly, ANKLE (the stepdown fix) is not in the database. You get SAX-MAGLV. It seems like SAX-ANKLE-MAGLV would make a lot more sense. Is the some reason it's left out of the database?

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One of my students asked me a question the other day that I have been unable to answer. Many instrument approaches are labeled with a letter following the primary name and the letter indicates that the final approach course is not lined up (beyond 30 degrees) with any runway, and that a circling...

I spent many a long hour with Kershner while I was a student pilot. My copy is so ragged looking it's embarrassing. I actually spent an hour on the phone with him when he called the museum asking to donate copies of his Private Pilot Manual to the education department. He was really...

I've been flying on helicopetr routes over NYC for years now with terrific controllers everywhere but got hung up with a controller last week and I need help understanding his arguments for refusing me access. He said I'm not a helicopter so I cannot fly a helicopter route when it 'may' interfere...

Sounds like a JAA thing. I"m not aware of any requirement for original anything in the U.S. -Robert

On our second leg home from Michigan to New York yesterday, I was the PIC and Rick took care of the communication. We filled the following route from KBQR Buffalo-Lancaster) to KPOU (Dutchess County Airport) BUF V14 BEEPS V34 HNK V167 SPECL Departing KBQR VFR, we picked up our clearance...

The other day I flew an ILS into KCNO. The G1000 did not decode the Morse code and the 3 letter identifier did not appear. I was not in IMC and I did not manually listen to the Morse code. The ATIS did not indicate a problem. The localizer and glide slope appeared good. My question. What are...

The first of the FAA's public 21st Century advanced RNAV instrument approach procedures, based on RNP and other aspects of airframe/aircrew/systerm performance, will launch at KDCA on September 1st. For a view of the Jeppesen chart and soon-to-be-released briefing bulletin,...

I posted something about this yesterday, but it seems to have gone into a black hole. I'm based at HPN, looking for someone in the area to trade safety pilot duties. Say, once a week in the morning before work. Anyone? Morris

I have a GNS 430 and a GNC 250 XL in my aircraft. When I switch on both GPS, the GNC 430 will not, in the satelllite status page, show the solid signal strength bars even though the hollow bars are all showing good strength and the 250 XL works just fine. Does this have anything to do with the...

The RFD for rec.aviation.questions is being withdrawn at this time. I anticipate proposing an RFD concerning the 4 moderated groups in the rec.aviation.* hierarchy in the first quarter of 2007. The four groups a rec.aviation.answers, inactive since February 2002 rec.aviation.announce,...

Hey guys, I am a fim believer in the edm 700 I have used it in about 4 airplanes (182 210 421 barron) I find it easy to use and highly reliable. I wish that I could give you some info on the EI product but I just have no experience with it. As a professional pilot I fly nearly every day and I am...

I had a strange experience with our CNX-80 earlier today. Heading back into HPN, we tried to bring up the approach frequency 126.4, and discovered it wasn't in the database. There were the normal secondary freqs (120.8 and 124.65), but no 126.4. Then I looked up DXR (Danbury, right next...

Where has Steve gone?

One of my two non-WAAS Garmin GNS430 database cards has somehow died and remembering to pull the only one from my unit to bring home and burn has become risky, so I am looking for another spare card. There are a couple on eBay but I thought I would at least see if any of you here have spare, old...