Aviation Forum / General / IFR / April 2005

Letter found in FAA ATCT breakroom
Funny
Protected Class or the Subtle spread of Perversion?
In the famous fable the “Emperor has no clothes”, all in the “Village”

In an earlier subject, Jeppview vs. paper Jepp Plates, I was waiting
for my touch screen to arrive so I can use it to display
JeppView/FliteDeck moving map.  Anyways, it arrived on last Tuesday,
and I went to airport to hook it up, and took it for a ride.  And it

(clipped off a blog 4/16/05)
Ponder this thought?
You have in ATL a new tax funded 5th runway with giant new FAA ATCT just
to see the fifth runway plus huge layers of additional FAA Air Traffic

I just noticed an interesting problem with the Instrument Rating PTS.  It
says:
Aircraft and Equipment Required for the Practical Test
[...] GPS equipment must [...] contain the current database.

time for me to renew my Jepp service.  I usually get the California
Express for $144 per year.  Generally the work that I have to
do is not that bad.  My friend is going to be starting his
IFR training soon and I was thinking maybe the two of us

I saw an approach mistake the other day that I've never seen before.  We
were flying the VOR-A @ 12N (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0503/05026VA.PDF)
and were a little off course (in good VFR conditions).  My student looked
up at about the right time, saw a runway, and went for it.  ...

Question for the controllers here:
The KMIC VOR-A is a pretty vanilla approach.  The FAF is the Gopher VOR (GEP)
about 5 miles north of the field.  The missed procedure is to go back to GEP and
hold north, left turns -- depicted as a dotted race track on the plate. (The FAA

I am reviewing the requirements for a commercial pilots license.  There
are two that are perplexing me.  I ask it on the IFR forum simply
because it is the one I am most familiar with and folks here seem ver
FAR knowledgable (sorry if this is not the best place for it).

Getting mixed up about runways and airports can happen easily, as Roy's post
shows, and it happened to me Friday.
I was picking up an Angel Flight patient at Jacksonville Craig (CRG).  The
weather was VMC, I already new from a NOTAM that 14/32 was closed, and the

I've searched the threads on Google, but given the emerging technologies
involved, I'd be interested in any thoughts or recent experience that
anyone can provide regarding the in-flight satellite weather in
particular.

I just wonder if there is a place where you can check which is the last date
changed were made to a Jepp approach chart of Low-Altitude Enroute Chart.
Our club has 49 / 50 enroute charts, that are supposed to be current (last
changed Jul 04), but I found out a frequency was wrong. ...

Howdy,
I fly a Cirrus SR22, an all-electric plane.  It has dual-redundant power
busses, which makes total electrical failure unlikely, but if it does
happen in IMC it can really ruin your day, so I'm thinking about a

When entering an ATC region, we often get an altimeter setting, usually
at some fix.  So for example, when entering the Chicago center ATC
region, they say something like, "Midway altimeter is xx.xx."  I have
some questions.

Well Newps,
The bids have come out for displaced Flight Service controllers to enter the
terminal ATC environment.  Looks like KBIL is one of the places they will be
selecting into.  I don't see a single ARTCC on the list, just ATC level 6,7

Got a little memory jog in the April 2006 Designee Update...other than
"Basic Instrument Flight Maneuvers," there is nothing in the 2004 (latest)
PTS about timed turns OR compass turns. Nothing. Nada. So instrument pilot
wannabes need not be concerned about demonstrating either ...