Jack Cunniff wrote: Did you ever wonder what an airport environment would look like before you got there? Sure you did, it's part of preparing for a flight. I know this sounds like spam, but I'll bet that folks are really going to be impressed with Google's new Earth viewer, downloadable...

About a year after I started the initial training I finally passed my checkride last week. The cross country hours took me forever to build up. I finished that off with a nice flight from Hawthorne, CA to Oakland to see the Dodgers play across the bay. The oral went perfectly, it was only about...

"Yossarian" wrote in message ... I was using a Frasca 141 sim today with an instructor when this question came up. Fullerton CA (KFUL) VOR-A approach. At WILMA on V64, flying the full approach. Do you need to...

Here are some "general" tips for safe, single-pilot IFR, gleaned from Larry Bartlett's refresher course. These tips do not represent the "meat and potatoes" of the video course, but are thrown in at a couple of points as generalities. How many agree with these : 1) No Single-Pilot, single engine...

I have an old Square D Kollsman 3 pointer altimeter that I think it's about 50 or more years old and seems to be in working condition. The body is about 2 13/16 diameter. The label on the back says part no. 371K-05 The three altitude pointers give the usual altitude readout. The little Kollsman...

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Peter, I have been flying with an Artex 110-406 for the last six years. about $2400 to install it at the time. Michelle Peter wrote: I am the UK-based owner of a US registered aircraft, and to comply with the FAR requirements for an ELT I have installed a relatively cheap Artex dual-band...

At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix, or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For example, your direction of flight makes a parallel entry appropriate. You cross the fix and turn outbound. Should you report then or wait till...

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?

I have a GTX327, and it has a squat switch which is used to switch from ground to air modes. Maybe your 330 has the same. You may not need the GPS connected to the 330... I am no expert, I am reading this out of the manual. By the way, I am interested in making a remote switch for...

KVUO To KAST Well, After getting my instrument rating 2 months ago and just playing local in my 150 getting used to Popping in and out of the clouds totally different than the hood I decided it was a good day for a real IFR X-C not a very far one but ceilings were 1,300' local and 2,500' at...

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...

Worldwide, the 121.5/243.0 MHz ELT signals will no longer be detected by the SAR satellites. The following references will explain it better than I can, but here is the first line of the text from the URL: "The International Cospas-Sarsat System will cease satellite processing of 121.5/243 MHz...

I was going to send this as an email to Roy, but then I realized there might be value for everyone in the response, and maybe Roy wouldn't mind sharing with the whole group. Roy, If I'm not mistaken, you instruct in a club with a fleet of GNS480s. My partners and I are about to install a GNS480 in...

My $.02-- FS2004 is good enough for procedures and scan. Don't bother buying a yoke or pedals. Use a cheap "gamepad" type controller with thumb-joystick (instead of a grip/wrist joystick). Go to "user controlled weather, advanced" and turn turbulence to max, both on the clouds panel and the...

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I just installed a GDL69A data link with my 530, which works great. It gives Nexrad radar as well as graphical METARs, and superimposes the information on the basic map pages. It is also supposed to provide text metars, but this will not be available until "sometime in the future" Worst, I have...

I was just reading Don Brown's latest (6/22) on avweb: http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/189944-1.html This column is about NORDO IFR procedures. I like Don's columns and find their nitpickiness to be consistent with safe flying, if a little bit annoying. But in this column, two things stuck out...

I was taught that, if I needed to file an IFR flight plan in the middle of a trip, I should contact FSS first to file and get clearance, then contact ATC. On the other hand, I hear frequent references in rec.aviation to pilots who just contact ATC directly. Does this depend on how busy ATC is -...