Aviation Forum / General / IFR / January 2008

I have flown into Rhode Island several times, and always file direct.
However, as I begin to approach the area (about 150 mi out) ATC gives
me ammended routing. My problem is that I am unfamiliar with the
navaids/airways in that part of the country and it adds a lot of

My understanding is that the missed approach procedure cannot start
until the MAP is reached. Now here's my stupid question- what if I
royally screw up the approach early on i.e.  get full scale deflection
on the the VOR/localizer; should I keep going and hope I can find the

A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged
individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial
group identities.
The collectivist mindset is at the heart of racism.

Do any of you fly into KADS with a Garmin GPSmap 496? I'm getting a false
terrain alert when flying the Rwy 15 ILS and am wondering if anyone else has
this problem. I'm working with Garmin to resolve this, but so far what they
have suggested has not solved the problem.

Does anyone know what happened to the FAA's proposal to increase the
requirements for instrument currency to include departure procedures
etc? Is the FAA still pursuing this?
-Robert, CFII

We have upgraded the Garmin 430 to WAAS in our homebuilt.  We have the
Garmin talking to our STEC autopilot using its ARINC 429 roll steering
commands through the STEC GPSS interface.  In the old 430 non-WAAS
unit, even if you selected an ILS approach on the Garmin and loaded

I had the upgrade installed a little while ago and it seems to have
impacted my screen.  After the radio has been running a while, I
notice that when I change pages, the previous page seems to have
'burned in' to the screen for a few seconds and gradually fades away.

Anyone flown IFR into CLT in a piston single?  I've got a commercial
flight leaving CLT next month.  I'd be flying in around 4pm on
weekday.
Thanks!

Yesterday's IFR trip to Tunica.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykh_3LmkRwE
Video will give you a flaver of how I run my shop in my ship.
Note, omissions in video lead to "technical errors" so view it as

Instrument Approach and Airport/Facility Directories Library and Flight
Planning Software
Aviator Trip Pack:
1.   Develop your own custom library instrument approach procedures and

It looks like rec.aviation.ifr is downing in a sea of "MI5
Persecution". Is there nothing that can be done to stem this tide? In
the old days I would just killfile the person or a regexp against the
title, but this is actually hard. Besides, I'm using Google to access

FAA OUTSOURCED AIR CONTROL VIDEO
The FAILED Aviation Administration saving a few dollars..
(WITH YOUR LIFE)
http://themainbang.typepad.com/blog/2007/12/when-air-traffi.html