Recent content by DesertNomad

I should have said northern Nevada. Yesterday they said today would be not so gusty but it was 5G15 for much of the day which beats the 15G30 that it has been.

You’d be waiting a long time for a checkride in Nevada if you wanted a day without gusty winds.

Well, it seems like a software bug. The software upgrade was done for free under warranty, but now to troubleshoot it, the dealer charges $150/hr and will only take me back to 20.24 "at my own risk". The only reason I bought the GAD 13 was to get wind on the map page of the 750xi. I guess I...

SO... I am getting wind and temperature on the G5 from the GAD13 so that part works. I am also getting wind on the wind page in the 750xi. The CAS must be coming from the G5, but before I installed the GAD13 this page worked via the temperature probe on the JPI830. Right now I am not sure where...

I have a 750xi, dual G5s, GAD13, and GTX330ES. A friend at the local Garmin dealer updated mine today to v20.41 with the data cards at my hangar. Now I no longer get wind in my configured map corner, though it still shows in my G5. Garmin support said the dealer needs to pull the unit out to...

I teach part time out of NV Flight in Reno, and we could do it. www.nvflight.com We use Cherokee 180s.

I fly the RNAV 20 frequently with IR students. The missed is a full 180 degree right turn with terrain all around. Sounds like a classic got-slow, stall-spin. Perhaps the airplane was never cleaned up, and had ice, but the visibility is almost certainly a factor. It was snowing last night with...

Your insurance will be directly related to hull value. A $600k plane will cost more than a $100k model. Liability is more related to number of seats.

Those guys in the Migs have countless hours of training, but what they didn't know, was that Doug Masters listens to rock music, despite Chappy's pleas. RIP Chappy.

I was sitting in the flight school office one day with the flight school manager, when another CFI and his student walked in from a flight. The student says to the CFI, “Are you going to call that number they gave us?”. Fortunately it was a joke.

My instructor once told me, “if you can fly straight and level at 7540’, you can do it at 7500’ too.”.

I am unlikely to sign you off for your checkride unless we have been in the clouds together. You need to find a CFII who will get you into IMC. I am in Nevada so we usually have to go to the Sacramento area to find it. I also do this late in training when the student is proficient enough to...

Possibly Piper PA32T C-FBWH as reported on another board. RIP to all onboard. :(

With Roswell, RARA could still be RARA. I learned to fly in Reno and will miss the races being here.

The whole “call ahead” needs to go away. We don’t have to do that to walk or drive across the border. I have written to my Congressmen, but nothing ever changes and the people I vote for never win. Sigh.