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osvolant
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Flying Guest Opinion: Transitioning to a Paperless Cockpit
from osvolant
wrote 1 year 42 weeks ago
I really like Foreflight on my iPad, but I am a little leery of using it as sole source for maps. I had it "temp out" on me a couple of months ago while descending towards my destination. I was using the Bad Elf GPS (I have the internal GPS also, which seems to work just fine) and had it charging from the aux power outlet. Perhaps that increased the internal temp? It was sunny in the cabin but the OAT was only 67F. I have a plastic kneeboard-like device with folding cover which seems to allow air space around the back of the iPad.
I agree with the above comment on polarized sunglasses in the cockpit. I couldn't read my MFD display at all if I wore polarized lenses. For fishing they are great.
For the Love of Meigs
from osvolant
wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago
The pressure to close SMO has little or nothing to do with "bureacrat's idealogical whims" and everything to do with land developers who would sell their mothers to get their hands on developable land in hyper-expensive southern California. They are pressuring the City Council to close the airport. The other arguments are merely a smokescreen to justify it to the clueless general public.
As others have stated, Meigs was a great asset to business travelers going to McCormick Center or downtown destinations in Chicago, as well as a reliever for Midway and O'Hare, and a location for ATC to coordinate traffic along the lake shore. Da Maire destroyed it for his own reasons and used "security" scare tactics to rationalize it to his own electorate.
Fly & Dine: Chicago Executive Airport (KPWK)
from osvolant
wrote 1 year 4 weeks ago
From the south, PWK is kind of a pain to get to, due to ATC vectoring.
Are Flying Clubs Changing the Game?
from osvolant
wrote 25 weeks 5 days ago
I belong to a well-run flying club based on a bucolic grass strip. We have 40 members and 4 planes ranging from a Champ to an IFR certified Cessna 182. Dues are $60/mo., buy in is $1200, and wet rental rates range from $56 to $129/hr. Even though I now co-own another aircraft, it's worth it to me to be in this club just to fly a taildragger low and slow, off of grass, not to mention the social activities and friends I have made thru the club.
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