Recent content by Buck Rizvi

I installed an Avidyne IFD550 (plus Avidyne's ADS-B in/out that they threw in with the deal) into my Piper Cherokee Six 300. I didn't cut my teeth on Garmin, so I'm not biased and like Garmin gear. I stopped flying in '94 and started up again only a couple years ago when I got my instrument...

Yes. X-plane 11 works great with Oculus Rift + touch controllers. A fast gaming pc is needed for good perf.

Good stuff. I’m keep flip flopping over using VR with PilotEdge. Even though I can bring my iPad with Foreflight into the VR cockpit, it’s still a hassle to try and manipulate it. I own the RealityXP Garmin 650 and will check out the RealSimGear device. Another reason to not go VR! :-)

Amen to that. And when you add touch screen to the mix (which I couldn't live without now), the big screen is a bigger deal for fat, jumpy fingers :-)

Hasn't been my experience with Avidyne, but I'm only 1 year in with my IFD550/AXP340/SkyTrax100 bundle. I just called Avidyne support today and a tech rep phoned me right back. No upsells so far. I agree that Garmin has great support, too.

Thanks, Ted. I'm a Virginian and got my PPL at the Quantico Flying Club (no longer there). I flew over the baby mountains there back in Oct and miss it. There's a good article in this month's Flying Magazine about getting comfortable with forward slips. Something even the majors do. I know that...

Totally. I've not been practicing enough circling approaches because the LPV and ILS approaches to DA seem more fun.

You'd think with my Hershey Bar Six I could land on whatever's directly below me by pulling power :-)

My circle back around to 32 was just fine and what was called for. My mistake to get greedy and dive for RWY 32 from the FAF.

I fly a Cherokee Six 300. My normal approach speed is 100 kts. The mystery is solved: I should have been flying to MDA and made a lap in the pattern, not go directly for the runway from the FAF. Notes for next time! :-)

Ah, duh! I realize my mistake. I decided on making a visual approach at the FAF straight into runway 32. This GPS-E approach was only meant to set me up to hit the MDA of 8140 for circling, which is essentially what I did by going around and entering the normal pattern. If I was targeting the...

I thought that applies from the final approach fix and, in this case, to the circling MDA of 8140.

I flew by Aspen last week. Very calm day and I was itchin' to add it to my bucket list. I've heard the landing fees are painful, though. Last time my meager Cherokee Six was in a sea of private jets was at Teterboro. She's still recovering from that ;-) By comparison, Steamboat Springs airport...

It was a beautiful, calm day today so I decided make my first trip ever to Steamboat Springs (KSBS). I donned my oxygen and flew flight following at 14,500 with the intention of doing a practice approach on the RNAV (GPS) E. Everything was just dandy until I hit the final approach fix at the...

@Glenn C I read a review of the Garmin GFC 600 (vs. S-TEC 3100) in "IFR Magazine" that was installed on a 340. Garmin got the nod. Strange they don't have the 310 on the list!