Recent content by BarryJI

Funny, you're not the first to suggest this.

Yes, that's what we are likely to do but given the very large amount involved, financing might enable us to spread out the payments.

First, thank you for your help and advice; it's much appreciated. My two partners and I are staring down the barrel of a needed avionics upgrade for our Grumman Tiger at Santa Monica Airport. We feel we must get it all done in as few stages as possible but it's likely to cost us $60k. Can...

Very helpful responses, many thanks. I am astonished by how much easier — and probably safer — it will be to navigate in and around California’s challenging airspace, terrain and sometimes weather with this (to me) new combination of GPS and Foreflight/iPad. I like to learn things thoroughly and...

I'm retraining after a long layoff. I want to be able to confidently operate equipment in the aircraft that I'm not accustomed to. I'm good with tech but I don't want to be learning how to operate GPS and moving map and other digital nav aids only in flight when I could perhaps get...

A little over-emphatic, I think. Of course I understand your point but a lot depends on the kind of flying one does. For me, it’s all fair-weather, low-stress VFR. I would never rely on an app for all flight-planning, navigation and situational awareness; I am too experienced for that. I think...

These responses are very helpful, many thanks. I am comfortable with tech, so, given my lack of comfort with math, common sense suggests that I should do this sort of thing with ForeFlight ASAP rather than trust my own calculations. A part of me wants to be able to understand it well enough to...

Thanks, guys. @woodchucker, I’m not a student pilot but a Private Pilot with ~400 hours VFR in type and a lapsed IFR rating. I stopped flying 20 years ago when child #1 arrived and have just started retraining. I’m in Southern California. I am trying to be competent in all aspects of old-school...

First post, thank you for your hospitality. Eventually I will probably manage to drive the calculations using the C-172 POH into my thick head but I am struggling; math is my weakness. Does anyone know of either a computerised process for calculating these numbers (there's no such category in...