Aviation Forum / General / IFR / February 2008

You All Can See Photos Here!!!
http://www.internationalferryflights.com/Africa_182_Diesel will update when
I have time and recive more photos...
Going to Be Busy Next Few Weeks!!!

Quick follow up on my IFR to CLT in a Piston Single.
Thanks to the group for the info - it was quite useful.
Took the trip starting last Thursday - used CLT ATC's web site to time
my arrival during a "slow" period.

I have a question from a friend.  Her daughters have nut allergies.  She
wants to know how long it takes from cruise (41K?) to a gate from the time
they notify the crew of a medical emergency (e.g. anaphylactic shock).
Obviously it depends on their proximity to a suitable airport ...

There is one week left to comment on this onerous and fatally flawed
FAA proposal that may cost as much as $17,000 per aircraft with
little to no benefit to the GA community.
My website at StopADS-B.org/ADS.htm gives details.  You can also

When flying a VOR approach in which the FAF is defined by the VOR, is
it appropriate to start the descent to the MAP, or next stepdown,
immediately after overflying the VOR or should I wait until I have
positive course guidance for the final approach segment?

I've got a Seneca III, well equipped with King of that era.  When they came
out I added a KLN-90B.  I understand that King announced the KSN770 & KFD840
last summer but looking at their web site and looking around on the internet
doesn't yield much information.  Anyone given any ...

One annoyance of the 430 is that activating an approach will
immediately set a course for the selected IAF (assuming RV not
selected). What I would like to do is append the approach to my
current flightplan so that I can transition en route to the approach

Just finished my first logbook and my first entry of my second logbook
is today.  It all started in 2001, hard to believe it's been seven
years.
I have compressed those seven SHORT years to 3 minutes, 1 second, a

NEWARK (CBS) --  There was another near mid-air collision at
Newark Liberty Airport Wednesday, forcing the Federal
Aviation Administration to call an emergency meeting on the
matter.

There is a very old rumour here in Europe that it is illegal to keep a
non N-reg aircraft in the USA for more than X months.
Nobody I know has been able to find a reference to this.
Does anybody here know anything about this?

Here's an interesting internet find (full of facts) posted January 31,
2008:
Belfort's NEW Motto:
" Quality you don't want at a price that will alarm you"

We all know the FAA has gone to some lengths to create some wistful,
humorous or otherwise place-significant intersection names. BOSOX outside
Boston, RIBBS, MILLER, LYYTE - some less funny GRAVE, SORRY -
How does one suggest an intersection/fix name to the FAA?

I flew with my boss for steak at Harris Ranch last night in his A36. On the
way, we got to talking about GPS systems. He's got a Garmin 396, and was
telling me that it (and the 496) would talk to the GNS430W the same way as
the GDL69A, complete with showing the weather on both ...

I've been working on that elusive instrument rating for awhile now,
but I still haven't come up with a very good solution for my view
limiting device.
I need to wear glasses for reading (charts), but otherwise I see just

Today I departed out of RIL as a passenger on a Citation V Ultra being
flown under Part 135.  Despite the winds and terrain favoring a
departure from runway 26, we departed runway 8.  One of the consequences
of this was that we needed a 5500 foot ceiling, which we darn near