Aviation Forum / General / IFR / January 2006

I just became the proud owner of an auction radio, a King KLN 89B GPS
reciever only, sold without tray or antenna.
I was curious about how interchangeable the trays are between the KLN
models.. say.. is the connector on a KLN 88 loran tray physically

Is there an on-line directory of TACAN locations? For example, the FAA
lists on
http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/LID/A_B.htm
a TACAN on Bald Mountain Nevada, with designation GBM. However, there

All the approach plates for Aspen are marked "Procedure not authorized
at night" (presumably a result of the G4 crash a few years back).  And
yet there are commercial flights scheduled to land as Aspen at night.  
How do they do it?

I've never seen the/a definitive answer to this question:
Are there any negative legal ramifications of using IFR plates obtained
from, for instance, the AOPA website, so long as the plate is current
(they're now printing the date range of the plate's validity in the

Did a short trip yesterday from MWC to OSH with the gf, just to go,
about 3PM.  Was planning on cruising at 3 to avoid ice in the clouds,
which were not far about that at all.  Briefer tells me there's an
inversion aloft, and the freezing level is at NINER.  Cool, great!

    I am a VFR pilot and I currently have a 96C in which I loaded some 700
user waypoints, neede in Italy to find VFR reporting points and
airstrips. My new club's airplane will have a Garmin GNS430. I contacted
Garmin in order to know if it would be possible to load waypoints