Recent content by flyingron

You can take the boy out of scouting but you can't take the scouting out of the boy.

I found that going on the high fiber, low fat diet did nothing significant with my cholesterol. Working out and losing 50 lbs did a much better job.

Yeah, they sent me a bill for my PO box and then another even though I had mailed them payment (and they had cashed it). I complained via the website and they sent the inquiry to the wrong (next town over) PO which had a runaround trying to verify my identity because my name didn't match what...

10:1 glideslope is 5.7°. Most planes will not make the runway without power trying to maintain a 3° glideslope. But again, nobody lands here without getting further than 200 feet from my house. Many air carrier airports have approaches that take you less than 500' from vehicle traffic...

I'm going to suggest we not go down the Trent Palmer rathole here. TP even by his own story (which the FAA and many others find suspect), HE WAS NOT LANDING. That's distinct from your supposition that you were flying the pattern to a landing. If you had to maintain 500' from every...

What makes you think there is a FAR violation? I start a descent abeam the numbers and continue it around the rest of the pattern. The minimum altitude rule 91.119 begins: Except when necessary for takeoff or landing,...

It's an industry term.

The program used to be simple and effective. Now, it is mainly inscrutable. Anything that you have to take a course to figure out how to take courses is doomed.

Do you want to still have hearing when you get further in your career? You don't need top of the line, but you do need something that provides good attenuation. Your best bet is to go somewhere (Oshkosh works well) where you can try several on your head.

Does it say "NOT USABLE FOR ANY CLASS AFTER 6/25" or "FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL NNN-NNN-NNNN" ? Those are the usual signs of a special issuance.

Half-arsed landing followed by half-arsed go-around. Really, once you have a bounce like that either close the throttle and ride it out or put the power to it, assume climb attitude and go around again. Trying to modulate a bad landing is just going to end up with more dynamics in your...

NyetJets

A VOR is an entirely analog device. The radial is defined by the relative phase between two signals. There are an infinite number of radials.

Forget AOPA. They won't give you useful advice. What you need is a good HIMS AME who will do a pre-application consultation with you as to what you are up against. The devil is in the details here.