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"Dive Away From Wind?"
from ginnyw
wrote 3 years 10 weeks ago
Hi, Doug and Jeff! My old retired Navy instructor told me always to keep stick back in the Champ, as the prop wash was always going to be more of a factor than the tailwind. Just feeling what the plane wants, I have never felt I should put stick forward. I always taxi really slowly in this plane; one could outrun it easily. We have some howling winds here, but those aren't Champ days:)
What the iPad Ain't
from ginnyw
wrote 2 years 42 weeks ago
I've been using mine for a few weeks, for both VFR and IFR. I feel just fine about leaving Big Brown and Flight Guide at home in a drawer, and have cancelled my chart subscriptions. I'm using ForeFlight, plus the NOAA weather and Weathermeister for reference. It's easy to navigate, and has great screen visibility. The touch screen is a delight compared to pushing buttons. I have a WAAS navigator (480) but no weather in the plane, and no weather service on the iPad - it's WiFi only. But it does what I need as an EFB, and it's a nice toy besides. The subscription came out way cheaper than the total of all my charts and books, too.
ginnyw
Arizona Tragedy: Superstition Mountains Crash's Sad Lessons
from ginnyw
wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago
Why the heck wouldn't a pilot ask for a climb through Bravo? It doesn't take any time, and there is no prefiling necessary and no burden on the system. I'm sure this is common in this area, and the controllers familiar with its necessity. Up here in the woods there are quite a few guys who would die, and have died, rather than talk to ATC. But a bigtime pilot in a Twin Commander should know every trick to get out of Dodge.
I started flying at KOAK, and we were taught to ask for a Bravo climb regularly - easier on the incoming traffic and the controller, as well as our little planes.
ginny, 2WA1
AeroNav's Epic Fail: Blame it on Steve Jobs
from ginnyw
wrote 1 year 22 weeks ago
I should think it would be pretty unwieldy to charge an individual user, since we're not buying the data from them directly. And what happens to "users" like Jepps, who are modifying the gov't data and selling it in their own proprietary format?
And these guys need to do some research to pin down their numbers, anyway, or they'll be over-and under-charging. I also think it won't be long until someone figures out a good hack of whatever system they choose, and we all start swapping our data around. Or someone out there knows how to produce the data we use independently of the government. No one knows what happens in your cockpit but you. Just another way in which we are likely slowly to slide away from certification, one plane at a time, until the Feds have lost control of GA.
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