Hi. How do the new glass cockpits (Garmin or Avidyne) indicate rate of turn, and also whether the plane is slipping or skidding? I know we can do the simple rule of thumb sum for standard rate turns, giving the approx. bank angle for the speed we're using, but we're all trained to check the...

Ok, it's coming up to that season, and was vividly demonstrated when I got hit by hail driving through Watertown last night. I drive a lot between Rochester NY and Ottawa Ontario, and Rochester NY and Whitby Ontario, and frequently those drives are in good VFR conditions except for that band...

Fellow Aviators, I was flying on Tuesday from N14 in NJ to Baltimore-Washington Airport. I was going IFR because of the Washington ADIZ. When I called McGuire Approach for my clearance I was given the route and all information except my release, void and advise times. They said to call back...

I have just finished two concurent aircraft learning programs 1)Getting my instrument currency back. doing some paractice, taking a IPC. All done in a round dial 172. 2)Getting checked out in a G1000 182. I've finished the King G1000 VFR and IFR course and spent about 6 hours in the G1000, ...

The other day I shot the VOR approach into SMO for the first time in low actual. I've often looked at that approach as one of the most difficult I've seen published so it was interesting to actually try it. The weather was 008OVC with something like 3sm HZ. I touched down about 3/4 down the runway...

So here's a question I had never thought of until getting my instrument rating and owning an IFR-equipped aircraft: how long should records of VOR checks be retained? Do they need to be retained at all? Can the FAA come to me and ask, "Remember that IFR flight to SLO you made 2 years ago? Show...

With all the talk about the GNS80 and the Garmin 430 having VNAV and LAAS capability, I would like to know something. Are there any actual approaches in use that one can fly, today, that use these features? Do you get vertical guidance from GPS derived altitude or is it vertical guidance from...

Consider the following FARs, § 91.126 Operating on or in the vicinity of an airport in Class G airspace. b) Direction of turns. When approaching to land at an airport without an operating control tower in Class G airspace- (1) Each pilot of an airplane must make all turns of that airplane...

Liberals HATE America wrote: Alas, Orville and Wilbur Wright are today pigeon-holed as "dead white males" whom we are supposed to ignore, if not deplore. The author is sadly misinformed. I couldn't care less about "white" or "male". However, "dead" is a Bad Thing. I certainly expend a...

There's not a lot in the user's manual about how to set up a non- published hold using the Garmin 430W. Lets say you are on a flightplan with SBJ VOR as one of your waypoints and ATC needs you to hold on the SBJ 160 radial right hand turns one minute legs. Is there anything to simplify this...

I'm looking to gain information about preferred routes, interesting/cheap refueling stops or siteseeing opportunities, or any other pertinent information (weather/notams/etc.) for my round-trip flight at the end of this month (July 2003) from the Los Angeles area to Chico (northern California). ...

Departing Lancaster the other day, I received an odd clearance. I was cleared from the airport to the Lancaster VOR, then East Texas VOR... It was that first leg (Lancaster Airport to Lancaster VOR) that confused me. The VOR is on the field. I have little choice but to go past it as a trundle...

Got an odd clearance the other day, on climbout from Santa Monica (IFR but in perfect VMC): "climb and maintain 6000 when direct Ventura". I took this to mean that someone would later clear me direct VTU, whereupon I would climb. However I never got such a clearance, and later an evidently nervous...

I had a my two-year transponder/static system check while visiting my mother in San Antonio. When I departed, I noticed the airspeed didn't come up like it should. I attributed this to shifting winds and assumed I had a slight tailwind. Then in cruise, I did my normal operating performance check....

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I noticed the thread about "Crossing a stepdown fix high" got quite a bit of debate. One of the topics in much of the discussion centered on stabilized approaches verses dive and drive. I was initially a skeptic on using CANPA, but I have come to believe that it is a better way of flying...

I got into a discussion with an non-pilot MD comparing a professional degree versus flying. My background, BS and MS from the top 2 bioengineering programs in the US. (note, I put *much* more weight to experience over letters after a name including my own). Flying-wise, I have a PPL and about 33...

Yesterday I flew a cessna 172 in the hard IFR. When I penetrated apparently a heavy cumulonimbus rain cloud area, the VSI and altimeter started to oscillate and bounce +/- 250 FPM (ALT oscilated 200~300 ft up and back). The rate of bounces was about 3 to 4 Hz (3 to 4 times per second). It lasted...

http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0711/05320LDA19R.PDF Suppose I am approaching the KANAN NDB IAF from the south, maintaining 2500', which nav aid do I use to track 001 deg outbound? When I first looked at the chart I assumed it would be the CCR VOR 001 radial, but on closer...

Hi, Does the ILS Critical Area sign apply to the localizer or the glideslope antenna? Or is this is a dumb question? CCR (Concord California) 19R has a localizer approach. No glideslope. It has an ILS Critical Area sign. I read recently that ILS equipped fields require the ILS critical area sign...