I've been working on that elusive instrument rating for awhile now, but I still haven't come up with a very good solution for my view limiting device. I need to wear glasses for reading (charts), but otherwise I see just fine. I wear progressive lenses (for presbyopia) that vary from a diopter of...

Can anyone point me to an oral exam guide (internet preferred) for the CFII? I see lots of stuff for IR but no one seems to publish anything for the CFII specifically. Looking for specific questions on teaching techniques. -Robert

I actually posted this in another aviation newsgroup in which I actively post all the time but didn't get a reply... I assume because of the crash in Manhattan got everybody's attention. That being said, I'm still hoping for some insight from the more recently trained. ==== cut begins...

Hi, I'm studying for my IR and having some trouble in calculating the outbound times. Has anyone got any easy way of calculating the times.

'Spin Doctor' Bill Kershner dies at 77 Pilot, flight instructor, and aviation author William K. Kershner, 77, died January 8 in Sewanee, Tennessee, after a prolonged battle with cancer. He soloed an Aeronca Defender from Clarksville, Tennessee's Outlaw Field - a grass strip at the time - in 1945...

So my IR checkride is approaching, and the thing I'm the most sketchy on I think is the weather charts. I'm fine with TAF, METAR, and other textual, but I guess it's because I can't find all the exact same graphics on DUATS/DUAT that they use on the FAA exam (prognostic charts, etc). Even...

KAUG AUGUSTA STATE 04/001 - WAAS LPV WAAS LNAV/VNAV OTS WIE UNTIL UFN This Notam has been posted, well, since April. No one seems to be sure of what it means. Translating the abbreviations into English is easy enough. The Notam basically states that the LPV and LNAV/VNAV approaches are out of...

I'm curious, how does one controller secure a direct clearance through mulitple other controllers' areas? Sometimes it seems that after a handoff the receiving controller doesn't know what your clearance is (but certainly must have that area available for you). As a typical example, I was flying...

Flyers, For absolutely no reason, except that I want it, I have been taking Multiengine lessons (including Multi-Instrument and Commercial). The flight school has a Piper Seneca I (PA34-200) circa 1973. It fly's like a flying Bulldozer on Codeine (sp?). It's a beast...really. The controls...

There is confusion in regard to which "twilight" times are used to define night flying. What would be wrong with a change to the FARs that say something like "Flight occuring an hour after GPS-indicated sunset time and an hour before GPS-indicated sunrise is defined as night flying"? (The...

I just noticed this today: AIM 5-2-2. Taxi Clearance Pilots on IFR flight plans should communicate with the control tower on the appropriate ground control or clearance delivery frequency, prior to starting engines, to receive engine start time, taxi and/or...

Are ADF's required outside of the United States? I had a demo flight in a new Mooney Ovation2GX the other day. Quite a nice airplane, by the way. Afterwards, looking at the price list, I noted an ADF add-on for the Garmin G1000 panel as $15,500 (it's a Becker ADF, for those who are interested;...

1. Vectored for the VOR 27 at Oshkosh in pouring rain, broke out and saw the runway after I got established but before I started my descent, cancelled IFR to help the guy behind me, did a visual descent and landed on the green dot. 2. Vectored for the ILS 24(?) at Muskegeon, descended on the glide...

Do I read the aim right that the special flight rules airspace over top of LAX is actually still classified as a VFR corridor? And secondly, are there any other vfr corridors in the US? Stan

If you file to a VOR direct, can ATC clear you along an airway instead, and expect you to look up the airways? In other words, how important is to carry an enroute chart if you don't plan on using airways?

I came across an interesting IFR Departure Procedure recently during some training and I wonder if anyone has flown it before and/or if anyone else has any comments. For those who are AOPA members, here is a link to the MRB (Martinsburg WV) Trixy Two...

What is the reasoning behind the required course reversal in many approaches? It's hard to believe that I will be safer flying the racetrack and then the approach to the runway than simply flying to the IAF and proceeding inbound - especially with GPS guidance. I have no problem flying the full...

Anyone currently flying with a KNS-80 please contact me directly. Thanx. Bob Gardner

Long CX IFR at 7000 Controller comes on "say Altitude" My response "7000" He says you show 300 feet lower and gives me the altimer reading. I confirm. He says "turn off you mod C" I comply.Look at my GPS which is at 7060. I go down 50 feet the gps stays at 7060. I go up 100 feet the gps stays...

Anyone IR without having actually flown in IMC? My checkride is around the corner and I've no actual IFR yet. I'm itching to experience it but the damned weather isn't co-operating (seemed the same way with the PPL!). Iain