HondaJet: Not A Steam Gage In Sight

Larry Dighera schrieb:

They usually had some sort of fuel gage.

They usually had a wrist watch, just as every pilot should. (Lesson 1:
Never trust the fuel gauges, always calculate your estimated fuel flow.)

Agreed. It is vital to carry portable comm and nav equipment on IFR
flights. What is VDF? I presume the 'DF' refers to direction
finding, but what's the 'V' stand for?

VHF Direction Finding station. Or, in plain languge, when you talk to a
controller, his radio displays the direction from where those
electromagnetic waves originate. Just "request QTE" (or QDR or QDM,
whichever you prefer (Q-codes, anybody?)), and you know on which
"radial" from that ATC facility you are. (I don't know about the USA,
but here in Europe pretty much every ATC facility is VDF equipped.)

Stefan