If you were to grade the FAA today 9/14/2006 what would you give it? Do you think the FAA should be privatized and self funding rather than a empire building tax whore? I give the FAA an overall grade of D 1. Technology Innovation F 2. Air Safety oversight D

Hello I have some questions about the ATC-flightplan and how to fill it out. 1. Field 10, standard equipment ILS means localizer AND glideslope, right? DME is not part of standard equipment, right? 2. Field 10 R means RNP. Do I need to write e.g. R5 for RNP5? Or is no value needed? (is

: Quick Easy Cash : LOTS OF CASH, FAST AND COMPLETELY LEGAL, THIS REALLY WORKS!! : THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY!! IT WORKS!!! BUT YOU : HAVE TO FOLLOW IT TO THE LETTER FOR IT TO WORK!!!! : A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came

Hello, My and my slow airplane are based at San Carlos, CA. Got up this morning, looked out the window - the whole bay is blanketed in coastal stratus. We get a lot of mornings like that. Having gotten the rating last year, it sure would be nice to keep proficient. The usual IFR practice run...

Back in 1998 when I got my rating, rec.aviation.ifr was beaming with activities. There were at least a dozen new threads getting posted every day. Where is everybody? I know GA flying is down but the traffic drop in r.a.ifr is a lot worse than say r.a.piloting. Maybe we all became dumber after...

Anyone give me a clue of the approach configuration of R172K? For instance, now I use 100kts, 15inch, 2500RPM with no flaps for the precision approach (ILS) for the training but it is not stable and too fast for landing after DA. I insist 90kts is good speed for the approach level and the...

Weather radar. Which weather radar are you using for preflight? NOAA, AOPA, local news facility? Or any others? I am sure there are many of them. Hank

A question about something that I guess I just didn't get enough info on during my instrument training. What exactly are you looking for when looking at a radar image. Are you trying to avoid all returns? Is an area of just green ok? Any other things in particular to look for?

I learned something Friday night while getting in some night solo time. I called Whidbey Approach for a few minutes of flight following and possibly clipping their Class C, and the controller annonced radar contact, and then issued a squawk. I hadn't given my position (I wasn't too sure where I...

My understanding is that radar coverage in western Canada is fairly sparse, but what about at the higher altitudes, say FL 220 and above. Thanks for any information. Bob

With help from the people on this newsgroup, I'm happy to announce that I passed my IPC! One thing that came up on my flight was that I didn't announce that I was entering holding and my altitude. The 2006 AIM 5-3-3 a. 1. (f) requires reporting to ATC, whether in radar contact or not, "The...

When I first learned the memory aid for required documents, it was "ARROW". When I inquired why sometimes I saw "AROW", I remember being told that the second "R" was dropped because while flying within the USA you don't need the "Radio License". I glanced through the FAR/AIM and couldn't quickly...

We just got "climb and maintain 18000" yesterday, which is why I am here now. I content that a clearance to 18000 means using local altimeter, while FL180 would use 29.92.

Hello All, Hoping some experts/old timers might help me on a basic Radio Range question. I understand the principle of merging the A's and the N's to get the on-beam signal. I have been told that, while originally this merge created a continuous, uninterrupted tone except for the station...

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We've been getting RAIM errors in Southern and Central California with our GX60 in the past couple of months. The unit recovers in a minute or so and there doesn't seem to be a pattern (e.g. in a turn, special altitudes) to the failures. Yes, I know about the earlier discussions of RAIM error and...

Is there a site that provides online RAIM predictions for the US? I know that Flight Service is supposed to be able to provide this, but it would be nice to have another source. Barry

I've been doing most of my GPS flying with a CNX-80, which doesn't seem to suffer from loss of RAIM. Last night I was flying with a GX-60, and got a RAIM warning when commencing an approach. The GX-60 manual isn't real illuminating on what you're supposed to do at this point. Presumably,...

According to the advertisement I just saw, a common source of weather information will be airing a Storm Stories episode on GA airplanes that try (but fail) to fly through blizzards and other weather on Monday (7/21) at 8pm/ET. ugh.

I was bored this morning, so: I wrote a Random Hold Generator. If you go to http://www.tripacerdriver.com/cgi-bin/randomHold it'll show you a list of 15 random holds you can fly. Refreshing the page will give you a new list. You can print them out, draw them, figure out the entries, and then...