Recent content by Chrisgoesflying

Or create your own company and give you the job you want ;-)

It’s 900 nm runway to runway for me.

I’ll second this. I do Florida to Ontario in Canada in the Comanche. About the same distance. I don’t have the tip tanks. I stop for fuel once on that trip. If i had the aux, i could do it non-stop, but probably still would have to stop as someone (and that someone may very well be me) on the...

I counted 3. One is at an airport that doesn’t allow training and if I go there, even for a missed approach, they’ll send me a $1,000 bill. That one is the nearest. The other two are ~100 miles away. One of them also has landing fees, about $25 per landing including training. The third one, same...

I have not fact checked my CFI but last time I wanted to do some simulated instrument training, I suggested to do some practice approaches. He said, sorry can't do with your equipment. He said we'd need a GPS. I asked what happened to my good ol' 1960s technology and he said all the airports in...

So that would be VOR navigation? I did consider this as a "backup" especially since I already have all of those on the plane, VOR, DME and they're working. Having said that, I don't know if they would be "legal" as a backup. My CFI said that this equipment would get me into only 1 airport within...

I get that. This is why i want the best unit possible as the primary unit. what i’m really trying to figure out is, how necessary are two gps units. if it’s just a Canadian legal requirement due to the large frozen tundra we have further north, i’d rather spend on a nice primary unit and go with...

I have a SL40 in the plane right now. Was keeping that one as a backup com. GTN650 + 175 might stretch it budget wise.

I was thinking a Garmin 650 as primary and then something cheap as secondary. What about a Garmin 175 as primary and a 400 as secondary? Would those two be worlds apart from a usability standpoint in case of an emergency?

Hmm, my plan is to have a very capable WAAS GPS unit as primary. The secondary unit is really only there to fulfill legal requirements. How common are GPS failures? I would imagine that even with a failed GPS, with IFR reserves one could always get to some place where a visual approach is...

I am in the early planning stages for a panel upgrade on my Comanche, including making it IFR ready so I can get my rating in it. In Canada, one of the requirements says: For the plane to be IFR legal, it must have: (j) sufficient radio navigation equipment to permit the pilot, in the event...

I doubt they'll be sold in the U.S. They're on their way out of the country. We have a huge problem with stolen cars in Toronto. None of them end up for resale in Canada but instead are shipped to foreign lands overseas. I'm sure there are dealerships in Dubai or elsewhere with mostly stolen...

This is almost like one of those “spot the difference in the pictures” game. The designs are very similar. I have a hard time preferring one over the other.

Tone and facial expressions are important. Just based on your written account it's almost impossible to know if the guy is racist (i.e. major jerk), just your standard jerk, or a not very funny guy who tries to be funny. This pertains mostly to his "stall" question. When it comes to the "winning...

In my case, I would be more worried if I had the wrench in my hand lol.