Aviation Forum / General / IFR / January 2006

Can one do the six approaches and holding in VFR  to maintain currency
without a view-limiting device or a safety pilot?

I have started on practical IFR training in the real world.  (Vans
RV-9, hopefully RV-10 soon; mostly glass cockpit.)  I do ok on
precision flying, but I would definitely like to practice patterns,
approaches, etc., at home before I go.  just too few approaches per

In my Cessna 421C, the pilot-side airspeed indicator reads 6 nts below
the co-pilot-side airspeed indicator.  When I pointed this out to a
mechanic, he said that it was "within toleraance."  He said it was
possible that one was 3 nts high and the other 3 nts low and so both

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/national/21airport.html?oref=login
If you're not registered to read NYTimes articles you may not be able to
access this  -  maybe someone has a more user-friendly source for this
article.

Looks like Jeppesen is finally dropping their prices on JeppView and no
longer penalizing for convenience.   Thus, over the next week I am going to
switch from the paper Airway Manual and that time-consuming, every two-week
amendment filing service to JeppView.

Here's a new website you should checkout if your looking for aviation sites
or to increase traffic to your site: www.aviationbillboard.com

I am getting ready to start IFR training next week, and there are a
couple of questions regarding holding that I have been pondering.
(Searched through here already, but couldn't find the answers...at
least spelled out for me ;)

I'm transitioning from Jepp charts to NACO. One useful thing that Jepp
seems to produce that I can't find on NACO are IFR area charts for the
smaller cities (e.g. Seattle, San Diego). Do `guvmint versions of these
exist?

Can anyone recommend a couple of flying clubs at either airport?
Sincerely,
Sean

The installation of the GNS530 is complete. The learning is just begun. But
since I now have equipment which allows it, what is the likelihood of
receiving 'cleared as filed' if I file direct to a destination a few hundred
miles away?

I think I just got my money's worth of the Beech Proficient Pilot Program.
(BPPP)
Last week, 3 of us where trying to get to Kissimmee from TN but Florida was
closed off due to a line of severe thundershowers across the state.  Waited

Just bought the complete system.....installed all of the software....got the
system to report xm weather 4 hours of a 27 hour flight from PYM to FTG and
back to PYM.
How is everyone else's experience with this system??

Seeing several recent posts on icing situations, I was struck with a
curiosity of how much a part of watching for ice accumulation becomes a
part of your scan, for those of you who have flown into potential icing
conditions.

I am pleased to announce the beta launch of a new on-line instrument
approach plate service at http://siap.awun.net/
This service collects all the plates you need for a trip into a single
PDF file.  Try it out and let me know if you think it's useful.  

To All:
Re: Removal of the FAA AFS-800 Part 61 and 141 FAQ web site
Last month the FAA cancelled the AFS-800 Part 61 and Part 141 FAQ's.
Evidently the reason was because the FAA Public Relations folks, the creator