Looking to go visit at Corpus Christi, I used www.fltplan.com , with an artificially long fuel burn time to check out the direct line route from Altus OK to the Gulf - and I saw a red ring on the sectional view of the direct line. It was flagging a Notam good for two or three days in a weeks time...

With the disappointing performance of FSS briefings lately, this weekend I tried filing an IFR flight plan through DUATS for the first time. I couldn't seem to find the correct syntax for what I know is ALWAYS the first thing leaving my home airport: "Farmingdale 3 Departure, radar vectors...

A friend just asked me what code to file with his KNS-80 RNAV. I told him that I thought it was /I but that I usually filed /A with a KNS-80 because I didn't want ATC to surprise me with an RNAV approach or some kind of weird RNAV routing. (I don't use a KNS-80 often enough to be really...

I am filing a flight plan 750 NM. I have 3 fuel stops appr venly spaced. I have 48 gallon usable and burn 11 gph. I could make this trip with only 2 stops, but choose 3. I save about $100.00 by landing at places where fuel is less that the big airports. Many of my pilot friends tell me that I am...

I just bought a FlightStat Fingertip Pulse Oximeter as an added measure of safety when flying at oxygen altitudes (with oxygen, obviously). Anyway, the device does not really come with any guidelines on threshold levels below which you should be concerned. 1. A little background reading suggests...

Is it possible for a "flight of two" to file and fly an IFR flight plan?

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I just returned on a flight from San Juan to Orlando and our flight level was 300, including a portion over the mainland. Since then I've been listening to my aircraft radio and routinely hear flights assigned FL320, 340, etc.. It was always 2000 feet separation with levels 290, 310, 330, 350,...

What Flight level do I fly when given the following ICAO's SOBRA Y180 BITBU Y181 MAKIK UY181 DEMUL UA24 BUB UL608 LOGAN (RFL330) FEVIK UN870 MAXIR UN853 MOLUS UN871 KUDES T163 PSA (FL246+)

Is there a proper phraseology for reporting leaving 33,500? The AIM doesn't say; it always assumes you're at a whole number flight level.

VFR flight with flight following round robin from Gulfport MS to Fairhope AL to Philadelphia MS to KMBO with ATC communications http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDj7QYCow88 3 hours flight compressed to 10 minutes. Question for any ATC controllers; Why didn't the type of aircraft and destination...

So far, every time I come out of ROG and request flight following to it doesn't matter where, I get a discrete squawk that allows departure to hand me off to Memphis Center, or Dallas, or Kansas City. Coming out of LIT however I've never been given anything except a local code and then about 15...

Our airport (KAXH Houston-Southwest) had a LOC-DME approach. According to the airport management, the Feds came in a shut it down because the equipment was so old that they couldn't test it anymore. New equipment was ordered and installed, etc. etc. We are now waiting for the FAA to flight test...

Today's 1.6 hour flight to the Northeast practice area compressed to 4 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CzHdoNw-E Every IFR pilot should do this this type of flight at least one time in their flying career. I would still be flying had the clouds not evaporated :-)

I just picked up a used U-2. It's quite a hoot to fly, but I'm having some trouble. Maybe you can help me out. 1) When I go cruising above 60,000 ft I cancel my IFR clearance. Then I buzz around a bit. But how do I come back down legally? Obviously I need an IFR clearance to decend back down...

After 21 years of being instrument rated, I flew my first SID this week. Departing KPBI on Thursday afternoon, bound for the first fix, LBV (LaBelle VOR). Normally, I file NO SIDS OR STARS in the remarks section. This time I forgot and they gave it to me.

Please understand that I am a geezer, and getting crotchety in my old age. I have Summit Aviation's CD-ROM that includes just about every piece of paper issued by the FAA...regulations, AIM, PTS, ACs, etc etc etc. I have searched this resource for two words: flair and flair. My Webster's Ninth had...

I can't find any guidelines on the type of fixes or waypoints to be included in the routing description of an IFR flight plan. I presume you can use things like VORs and (?) airports, as well as airways and anything indicated on IFR charts or procedures. But can you also use VPxxx waypoints or...

I haven't heard a peep from anyone in aviation about this, but now it appears the Northwest can't survive without a NASCAR track, and yesterday the finalist was announced. Marysville, just a hair south of Arlington (AWO). From the...

I too had my first experience in IMC yesterday. I got my ticket last summer too and have kept current but haven't had a chance to go solo. I was going to go from Indianapolis Executive (TYQ) to Capitol City in Lansing Michigan (LAN). The weather was 1000 OVR until 50 miles north of TYQ and then it...