How do most of you pilots set up a flight plan and what nav-aids doyou use.

Bob Nixon wrote:
On Nov 10, 6:10*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Bob Nixon wrote:
The UART that I used to install back in *73 was a yellow colored
snap
-
on or Velcro battery powered emergency location crash transmitter
box.

Aha! Perhaps you mean AN/URT beacon set radio, right? As in this:

http://www.tpub.com/1ase2/43.htm

To me, UART means "Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter" and
was a handy chip to have when one wanted to convert serial bit stream
to parall
el
byte streams and vice versa (as in modems and such.) Sure beat wiring
together (and debugging) discrete TTL chips to accomplish the same
thing.

I must have gotten those acronyms messed up over the years, How about
ELT for emergency location transmitter?

Works for me.

In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

Another question would be; these days, a VHF radio, GPS unit, UART &
maybe a transponder would be all that would be required for a VFR
flight.

As Mike Nash said, you don't need any of those things if you stay out of
certain kinds of airspace.

While I enjoy the sound of "Nash" and am not complaining at all, I would
like to point out that you've added an extraneous N.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

"Mike Ash" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

Another question would be; these days, a VHF radio, GPS unit, UART &
maybe a transponder would be all that would be required for a VFR
flight.

As Mike Nash said, you don't need any of those things if you stay out of
certain kinds of airspace.

While I enjoy the sound of "Nash" and am not complaining at all, I would
like to point out that you've added an extraneous N.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

Oops.

Sorry, Mike.

--
Dan

T182T at 4R4

Bob Nixon wrote:

My question is; when you file a flight plan nowadays is it mostly
using a GPS box or do many of you still use VOR stations to
triangulate your course or ADF for that matter.

Thanks, Bob Nixon Chandler, AZ

An instructor turned me on to a free flight planning/weather brief
site: http://www.fltplan.com

Give it a try with a start point and end point and it will give forecast
winds at altitude waypoints etc.

Brian W

"Bob Nixon" wrote in message
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The only nav-aids he has is
a GPS receiver-display and a required UART G force tripped box flying
out of now civilian Williams AFB. If he flew closer and or higher
toward Phoenix Sky Harbor airport he would be required to also have a
transponder so that the Sky Harbor GCA could track his airplane and
altitude and he'd have to tune his VHF radio to the GCA when in
..

If he is flying out of Williams Gateway, he is under the PHX Mode C veil.