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...

On Saturday I had my first opportunity to fly solo in actual since my IR checkride. One of my biggest concerns since getting the rating was how I would make my first entry into actual without the benefit of an instructor at my side. With about ten hours of actual during my training I had always...

October 23, 2004 12:00 1.6 hrs. (1.0 actual) First solo IFR, 2 approaches in actual! A warm overcast day with a slight breeze. Everything was reporting broken skies from 2200 up to 8000 where it was supposed to be overcast. A few patches of blue sky here and there made the "occasional IFR along...

We did our first LPV approach in a turbine Bonanza at OSH today, with my buddy as PIC and me acting as the safety pilot. His plane is equipped with a Garmin 530W/430W combo, with GDL 69A and Stormscope, along with TCAS. His autopilot has roll steering, and made all of the course and approach...

Hi folks, It's been over a year since I got the rating, and aside from popping through the coastal stratus a few times, I never used it. Well, yesterday I used it. 1.5 solid hours in the clouds. There was a front passing through Northern California. But it was all layered stratus stuff, the

Y'All, I am reworking my IFR instructional program for a very special student and would appreciate any student/instructor suggestions before submitting my entry. Gene Whitt

August 22, 2004 12:30 2.2 hrs. (.4 actual) First flight after my IFR checkride, with actual! For one of the few times in my brief aviation journey, I had a plane reserved and hoped for cloudy skies. Not the towering, throw-down-fire-from-the-heavens kind of clouds, but a benign overcast that I...

Written passed today! Pretty good score but I just realized I made a stupid mistake on one of them - oh well. Time to sit back, relax & take it easy...on no, wait, study for the Oral.....argghhh. Iain

An enlightening experience first of all. I figured since I had just got the second 'I' on CFII, and since I have given plenty of regular dual to Private students, I wouldn't have too much of a problem. The guy I flew with is working on a phase of the WINGS program and wanted several hours of hood...

First commercial flight of Ocean Airlines, the new all-cargo airline from Italy. The flight was operated with their first B747 230F registrated I-OCEA. You can find a selection of pictures taken during the offloading at Luxembourg (including cockpit pictures) under http://decker.antoine.free.fr

I played hooky today from work & went flying in our club's 172. Flew a GPS approach into Litchfield, IL (3LF) down to the minimums. Finally saw the runway about 1.3 miles out. Very cool. Got about 1.1 total today. Wheee! --

I got my IA on June 2nd. June 17th I took some friends up and I poked through a puff of a cloud. It was IMC but only about 0.01 hours but it counted. :) Well today I was flying back to the bay area from up north. SQL was reporting scattered at 2500 and I wanted to shoot an approach with my...

Today was the first time I've ever been established on approach, in actual. A bit unnerving if I say so myself. Partly because it's been a month since I've been able to fly. We (another instrument pilot and I) started down into La Grange (KLGC) after we were cleared for the approach and had to...

Yesterday, for the first time since I got the instrument rating 5 years ago, I had to hold for real. It was a reposition flight from Mobile Downtown to Pensacola to pick up an Angel Flight. When I checked the weather at home at 6am, fog was reported everywhere on the central Gulf Coast - the...

A fine example of the quality results of Tarver Engineering work. As singed off by John Tarver with applicable 8130. http://www.aart-jan.net/images/aart_in_vliegtuigwrak.jpg photograph courtesy of Aart-Jan, (its not tarver in the pic, it's Aart's father inspecting the fine work completed by...

A fine example of the quality results of Tarver Engineering work. As singed off by John Tarver with applicable 8130. http://www.aart-jan.net/images/aart_in_vliegtuigwrak.jpg photograph courtesy of Aart-Jan, (its not tarver in the pic, it's Aart's father inspecting the fine work completed by...

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and find the nearest aiports to that city. Yahoo's SmartView will find larger airports (I'm guessing those with airline service), but it misses the smaller...

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and find the nearest aiports to that city. A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to use to locate the nearest Shell...

Hello all... I was looking through the online instrument procedures, trying to find a VOR/DME RNAV approach to do the flight test portion of my KNS-80 IFR certification. They aren't that prevalent, and I'm in Virginia, but basically equally close to WV, KY, TN, and NC, which spans a number of sets...

I know I can find them at various web sites, please don't bother to respond to tell me about them. Here's what I'd like: given an airport identifier, say "KLHZ", I'd like an programmatic, algorithmic way or a table lookup to find all the NACO approach chart URLs,...