Hi Folks- Please forgive what is probably a simple question regarding GPS approaches. I am new the the /G world. I was out flying my 182P today to do some practice approaches. The airplane is equipped with a GNS480 and I have a Garmin 296 on the yolk. I was buzzing around NW of the Salinas...

What determines the boundaries between airspace managed by an en-route ATC center and an approach or departure center? I don't see any clear indication of which is which on sectionals. There are boxes saying who to contact for approach, but nothing that shows where the handoffs between terminal...

Due to a business meeting, I will be flying from NY to Miami, Florida in a few weeks. In looking over the en route charts, I see a lot of MOAs, restricted, and prohibited airspaces throughout Florida. Also, my destination is Kendall-Tamiami (KTMB), which is just southwest of Miami International...

I'm curious what Instrument Rated members of this group use for personal minimums for takeoff and landing for single engine aircraft. The question is prompted by a recent flight where the takeoff conditions were 200 ft + 1 mile. That's lower than I've ever done before, and it occurred to me that...

I fly from KLAX to KLAS, using the FMC to handle most of the flight. With the routing I put in, the FMC decides on some default altitudes and includes required altitudes for the arrival and departure procedures I select. Part of what it does is to create a descent schedule from the nominal cruise...

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...

If you look at the radar plots at NOAA's site here http://radar.weather.gov/radar_lite.php?product=NCR&loop=no&rid=cxx there is no prediction for precip type, just the value of reflectivity is given. At Intellicast...

So let's say I'm inbound to Teterboro from the west, doing 250 kias below 10,000 in descent. Atc gives me a radar vector, and clears me to maintain 4000 feet. 1, Do I need to slow to 200 kias at some time? 2. I'm considering that I may well be less than 3000 feet AGL (or is 2500 the magic...

Is there a formal discussion of these various approach minimums? I looked through all the obvious places (AIM, GPS manuals, AOPA articles), but I haven't found a comprehensive discussion of these. Example: My understanding of LNAV/VNAV is that it has a barometrically generated glideslope. That...

Here is my experience with the release version of Vista64 Ultimate so far as it relates to Jeppesen, FSX and also Garmin. Vista is available as a developer's subscription on Microsoft's MSDN right now. I downloaded Vista64 Ultimate from MSDN and installed it on a new machine I built. My old XP...

'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...

Subject line says it all. If so, what was your impression?

InFO Information for Operators U.S. Department InFO 07001 of Transportation DATE: 1/5/07 Federal Aviation Flight Standards Service

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...

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:31:32 -0000, Jim Logajan wrote in : Larry Dighera wrote: The rec.aviation.stories newsgroup is not for follow up discussion, so it may not have been the right forum for this thread...

This one is just funny: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/13_2a/briefs/Stealing_From_Peter_To_Pay_Paul_194158-1.html Why is it funny? Because Tracy is, or was, the only airport I know that LOCKS and SHUTS DOWN their card activated fueling at night, making them practically useless for a fuel stop...

I am sure someone in this group can answer this question. When using a Garmin 530, without WAAS, will it output Roll Steering commands when flying a DME Arc ? Thanks -- Roy Piper Archer N5804F

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...

If it becomes impossible to respect your descent schedule, is it permissible to ask ATC to give you a hold temporarily so that you can descend in the hold pattern until you're back to your planned descent? If so, is this a fairly common procedure, or very unusual? I'm thinking with respect to...

I'm going to add either the GNS 430W or GNS 480 to a Beach Bonanza and am wondering if any of you who fly with these GPS units have a recommendation? I'd like a very capable IFR GPS with integrated NAV/COM abilities, which I'll couple to my S-TEC 50 Autopilot with GPSS. Both the 430W and 480 are...