Recent content by Bob Brown

Good idea about the tapes. If I demand them I am sure the FAA would be obligated to produce them. Never heard of the term "sea lawyer." I am not looking for free legal advice because I have a friend who is an aviation lawyer if I choose to involve him. I posted a question as to the proper...

There was a follow me truck on landing which lead me to the T hangar and the driver said"call the tower." Probably should have ignored the directive but just thought i would thank them for the green light. They did mention they diverted other traffic to deal with me and warned I might hear from...

FAA is citing no Regs. Just said you should have left the airspace. They want me to sign a letter acknowledging a violation of Charlie airspace and then take Wings credits and attend in person Ground School 101(some type of ground school). The FAA stressed this would not go on my record as a...

Exactly. I just forgot to squawk 7600, but I was probably in view of the tower on downwind when the radios went dead. The plane is based at this field and the controllers know the plane and some know me. The FAA wants remedial training, but if they want to educate me fine, but not waste my...

I agree 100%; but FAA says I should have immediately left the Class C airspace because I should not have been in Charlie without working radios (despite I had been cleared into Charlie before radios went dead) and I disagree. Any thoughts on other resource materials which could provide guidance...

Intention was to land at Class C airport and the approach controller knew this. Radios were dead; could not receive or transmit. Forgot to squawk 7600, but entered pattern, flew standard pattern and on final received steady green light - safe to land, and landed.

What is the proper procedure for landing at a class “C” airport if you have communicated with approach control, are lawfully in the class C airspace, but have not been handed off to the tower, and you lose your radios as you are approaching to enter downwind to the active runway? Would you...

Thanks for the responses. I believe I am OK with a non-TSO radio installation, even if it replaces the OEM radio in my certified aircraft, because a non-TSO radio compiles with the CAR 3 and the TC which only specifies the radio cannot in and of itself be hazardous to other components in the...

I have a 1947 Stinson108-3 with a TC under CAR, not Part 91 (or any other part). I have concluded I can save a few hundred dollars by installing a non TSO radio (such as an “experimental” approved radio like a Garmin 200) with no problem from the FAA, but that I need an A&P/IA to “sign off” on...