Recent content by coma24

As luvflyin' implied, these "what would you do" scenarios are made so much harder when pilots use vague/sloppy phraseology. Assuming you were on a random route at the time, ATC would need to provide an altitude to maintain until established on a published route or segment of the approach. In the...

I realize this is an old thread, but the service simulates the NAS as much as possible. VFR is supported just as much as IFR. Did something give you the impression that it was oriented more towards IFR? There's a whole series of graded VFR flights here: https://pilotedge.net/pages/cat-ratings

I guess my experience was different....I used simulation for a very, very long time prior to starting real world IFR training. I found the differences to be trivial. I experienced spatial disorientation once while enroute at night...that was memorable but obviously incredibly easy to recognize...

OBS mode to the rescue.

Didn't happen to me at all during training or the early days, but it absolutely did happen once many years into having my ticket. It was a night IMC flight...some sort of windshear yawed the plane from outta nowhere just as I was leaning over to pick up something from the right seat. First and...

I don't know that I've come across any CNF's that are not in standard GPS databases. The practical difference is that they're not readily accessible to ATC, or are depicted on their scopes.

I have to disagree on that one. That really only works if your IAS = TAS, or something very close to it. Up at 8k-10k, that's really not the case where IAS might be 165 and your TAS is 190kts with a GS of 190. That's not a 25kt tailwind. The Garmin 430 does have a utility page, though, where...

Right, but that was not brought up as the core issue causing confusion...it was the fact that the distance flown was >50nm and was planned that way from the outset. Where is the ambiguity for the OP's scenario?

Where is the ambiguity? Genuinely curious.

It could only be more perfect if the OP asked about cost sharing while they were at it.

Been flying the same platform for about 14 years now with a decent amount of time in IMC. My total AP time in nearly a decade and a half is probably around 90 minutes with nearly all of it in VMC for testing purposes. Having 3-axis trim certainly helps. The elevator trim is SUPER granular, which...

You can log the approach. You can log the time as PIC as the sole manipulator of the controls. There is no requirement for you to be ACTING as the PIC to log the approach, or to be able to log it as PIC time. If the safety pilot is ACTING as PIC, then they can log PIC time as well since they...

I've been vectored in Class E airspace while flying VFR in the NY area quite a few times, usually just north of HPN while descending westbound towards N07. There's a bunch of arrival flows there which can cause an issue. In this case I believe it was for the LGA arrivals. I was somewhere between...

JEB, pop-up IFR within the same tracon as your destination is a slam dunk, very easily handled by the controllers. Regarding the hypothetical VFR departure from VIS, picking up the clnc airborne from scratch with Fresno tracon, that works in most parts of the country, but there are places like...

Agreed, I shouldn't have used the word 'expected' as it conveyed the wrong impression. It is a full-on clearance, but you're departing without an IFR release, albeit with the blessing of ATC. Contrast this with KCDW which apparently has an SOP that fully prevents them from allow you to depart...