http://ronsvideos.fliggo.com/video/uIgc0dP9 This video was shot in a Cessna 206 taking us to a game reserve in South Africa. Watch the fuel gage in the upper right corner.

Several times, while under IFR flight plan and radar services, I have been vectored to intercept the localizer and the controller was late in turning me into the localizer. This usually happens when I need about a 90 degree turn to the localizer. I have decided not to wait for his vector and just...

I made my first big IFR mistake. I fixed my intermittant ADF with only a few more hours of training to go until my checkride. My glorious plan to label it INOP (making it an expensive combination multi-channel timer and partial panel heading memory aid) has been thwarted by a little tuner cleaner...

When being vectored, and ATC says your 4 miles from X, I noticed occasionally that they state the wrong X. They confuse the FAF with the IF. For this reason, I tell students to never rely on ATC's distance statements to make a descent. How often do others see this?

I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your IFR rating. Just curious.

Today was the first time I've ever been established on approach, in actual. A bit unnerving if I say so myself. Partly because it's been a month since I've been able to fly. We (another instrument pilot and I) started down into La Grange (KLGC) after we were cleared for the approach and had to...

ples list your most usefull weather sites for use in Flt planning thanks

I'm planning a trip for mid-May from WHite Plains, NY (KHPN) to Santa Fe, NM (KSF). I'm wondering if anyone here has made a similar flight and has any advice for me. I will be single-pilot IFR, will be flying a Beech Debonair and am planning to file for a TAS of 165kts at 10,000'. I've broken the...

Ok, I admit to making all three of these mistakes, but: On "meet the press" one of the guests suggested that Senator McCain was considered the most likely candidate for Republican Nominee for 2008. Would McCain, the presdent be able to carry out his "final solution" of user fees for general...

Peter wrote There are various documents such as the cert of airworthiness, and (for an N-reg in Europe) the FAA radio license, which some say need to be carried in original. The Radio License doesn't come from the FAA, it is isued by the FCC. Bob Moore

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...

Here's a whacky question. I just flew my 250NM IFR x-ctry. The last leg was IMC, bouncing along at 5000'. So the question I have is, do birds ever fly in the clouds? There are many birds at my home airport (KFIT). I got enough stuff to worry about during an IAP, I'd hate to get a bird strike...

Yet another GPS substitution question... It's a given that you can't use GPS to shoot an approach labled "ADF blah" unless it says "ADF or GPS blah", but how do the alternate rules really work? The regs say that I have to have an approach that I'm equipped for other than GPS at the alternate...

Flyers, For absolutely no reason, except that I want it, I have been taking Multiengine lessons (including Multi-Instrument and Commercial). The flight school has a Piper Seneca I (PA34-200) circa 1973. It fly's like a flying Bulldozer on Codeine (sp?). It's a beast...really. The controls...

KAUG AUGUSTA STATE 04/001 - WAAS LPV WAAS LNAV/VNAV OTS WIE UNTIL UFN This Notam has been posted, well, since April. No one seems to be sure of what it means. Translating the abbreviations into English is easy enough. The Notam basically states that the LPV and LNAV/VNAV approaches are out of...

'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...

Wait! He can use a GPS in place of the ADF on that approach. Isn't that correct? Rich Raine www.eraine.com "Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message ... "Gig Giacona" wrote in message

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...

I have a question about some nuances of the Bendix/King KAP 140 autopilot. Since the ink is still wet on my IFR rating (actually I have not even gotten the new one in the mail yet!) I am working on a personal "post checkride" syllabus. Part of this self training is to fly different routes on an...

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). ...