Aviation Forum / General / Aviation / November 2005

I am submitting this entry to solicit information and/or advice on how
to continue.   My desire is to fly professionally as a pilot.  I have
not yet decided into which category of commercial aviation I wish to
follow (airline, corporate or bush pilot).  I have attended two schools

The Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) is the
only computer readable file of data about airports, navaids, waypoints and
airspace available to developers and users of free or cheap flight related
computer programs, or web sites.  For a year now, we've been trying ...

I read a report about a local airport with this statement:
"With existing Instrument Landing System (ILS) technology, inclement
weather, such as fog,  is not a material obstacle to commercial service
operations."

I'm wondering if anybody in the group has flown behind
http://www.mc.com/vistanav/index.cfm ??
It looks pretty interesting.
Jim

We were discussing Engine failures in single engine aircraft with a constant
speed propeller..
Not catastrophic but more like fuel starvation types, where the prop keeps
windmilling..

Paraphrased from Sport Aviation this month:
Hitting a Canada Goose exerts the same force as dropping a 1000 pound weight
10 feet.
Yikes!   That would make mince-meat out of ANY GA aircraft.

Up till now I have been using the /G Flight plan equipment suffix. I
have IFR rated GPS Garmin 300XL + Narco 122D VOR/LOC/GS. But with the
cost of Jeppesen $kybound service "skyrocketing" (30% jump in one year)
I plan not to update the card full time and use GPS for VFR only - I am

Is it possible to purchase a one-time update to the 430 database using the
Skybound adapter?
I don't fly enough IFR to require a current database year round and I'd like
to just update it during certain times during the year.

I've flown with the Bose X in my pal's Navajo (he has two up front and
two Sennheisers in back) and love it. The thing weighs nothing and the
sound quality is fantastic (esp with the CD player piped in). My bitch
is they're twice as much as the next cheapest ANR headset and by now

During day one of my 2000 Saratoga's annual today my mechanic and I observed
the following problem.  If anyone has some experience with this or they have
a mechanic that has experience with this I would love to hear about it:
Here is a description of what we are observing:

I found this on the FAA "Pilot Medical Certification-Frequently Asked
Questions" page and I need to know what this disqualifying condition
means: "Coronary heart disease that has been treated or, if untreated,
that has been symptomatic or clinically significant."

CHECK THIS OUT!
Download the video at: http://www.flynik.com/HHJuniors05.wmv 
-Nik

We're supposedly heading for Lansing, MI, so spend a few days with my
sister.  Given the wonderful weather on the lee-side of Lake Michigan at
this time of year, our fall-back trip is to Minneapolis, to visit Mr. and
Mrs. Montblack for a day or two.

I generally never post links to things like this but this video clip is
an exception... I think it's a 737, and its landing gear proved to be
much stouter than I'd ever have expected it to be. Yikes!
http://www.jokaroo.com/extremevideos/badlanding.html

Yee-hah!  Don't get too close to this whale...
Change in Rules
Needed for Wake
Of Big New Jet