Aviation Forum / General / IFR / July 2006

July 12, 2006  FAA Preparing to Give Away Annual Pay Raises
Again
Today we learned that the FAA is again planning to spend the
.1% of the annual OSI they held back from the January pay

Decision time:  I have a choice of a 2.5 hr leg and a 1.5 hr leg,
refuelling in Saginaw MI, or a 3.0 hr leg and a 1.0 hr leg, refuelling in
Muskegeon MI.
Advantages of Muskegeon:

Please understand that I am a geezer, and getting crotchety in my old age.
I have Summit Aviation's CD-ROM that includes just about every piece of
paper issued by the FAA...regulations, AIM, PTS, ACs, etc etc etc. I have
searched this resource for two words: flair and flair. My ...

About Belfort Instrument Company:
Belfort used to be a leading provider of weather instruments to the
government, professional meteorology and aviation markets. Key
words: "use to be." They never provided any wind sensors to the Wright

I was checking out in a Civil Air Patrol 182T the other day and the
check airman pulled the power on me.  No big deal, but then he
demonstrated how the glide improved when the propeller was pulled to
low RPM.  No one had ever showed that to me before.

 A friend of mine is thinking of going to Peru...does anybody know of
a good web site for researching Peruvian Airspace?
thanks

This is great footage from the landing of a Jet-Airplane by JET BLUE
with Landing-Gear Problems. The Landing-Gear is positioned sideways. It
is amazing to me what this tires and axles can withstand without
falling apart and the pilot is doing a great job too :

I seem to remember live lightning maps being available, similar to radar
maps but showing lightning strikes.  However I can't find them.  It
seems they would be quite useful for preflight, and as an onboard
weather too.  Anybody know where these are (or if I'm just ...

In a Belfort Instrument Company press release
(http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb139374.htm) dated July 8,
2004 (two full years ago), Belfort announced FAA Approval of their
DigiWx AWOS product even though the only thing FAA Approved at that time

I recently learned that VOR can be "calibrated" or adjusted to take
into account any error discovered at the 30-day check.  For example, if
you need to set OBS at 44 to get centered CDI on the 42 radial from VOR
on airport checkpoint, and 219 to center CDI on the 222 radial, then

This is for an N-reg aircraft.
Aircraft: a standard piston single.
P1 seat: a pilot legal to be PIC under VFR.
P2 seat: a pilot legal to be PIC under IFR (but no CFI/CFII rating).

I have a student looking for some affordable software which will simulate
1. Flight in a C-172
2. ATC communications
I'd love some feedback and recommendations.

Last weekend I flew IFR Paine to Eugene.  I filed V23, but was cleared
to the west along OLM V165 UBG V495 CVO EUG.  Similar routing for the
return flight.  I asked each controller (except Seattle Approach) for
vectors EUG direct when able, but each controller said they needed to

Do the two VRF cross country trips required for the commercial rating (2 hrs,
100 nm min, one day, one night) have to be dual? FAR 61.129(a)(3) seems to
imply that it should be dual in the statement:
"20 hours of training on the areas of operation listed in 61.127(b)(1) of

Is it possible to use cities as waypoints in flight plan and how?
The only way I can make a city as a waypoint is by using panning function on
the map - point to the city and then press "direct to" key.
Or it is some kind of safety feature - not to alloud to use cities as