Recent content by flyingcheesehead

There was a naysayer in an eclipse group on Facebook afterwards yesterday, and there were a number of interesting responses to him about how it's different to be in totality, and how it affected various people. Here was my response: "There really are no words that can adequately convey the...

A gal by the name of Kendall Rust captured American 2246 crossing over the totality in Jonesboro, AR: Cool! That was originally going to be my destination, but I switched for several reasons. Had a very nice conversation with the airport manager there, though. Ditto on us being fortunate to be...

That airframe, prototype 001, F-WTSS, is still in once piece at the Musée de l'air et de l'espace at Le Bourget airport in Paris. I wonder if the NSF has the $$$ to get it airworthy again. :D

Which FBO is charging $120? Or is it both? Guess I can cross that one off my list. The ad doesn't start until about 3:20, so it's worth starting the video at the beginning. Pretty dang cool. I wonder what happened to that airframe. Er, I wondered for a few seconds before I looked it up. Turns...

Any. It could be FEW or there could be a single cloud in the sky, but if it covers the sun at the wrong moment you miss it.

There is a ForeFlight Content Pack available for this too. This has selectable layers for 4 minutes of totality, 3 minutes, the full path, and markers with times that the totality starts and ends...

This is Princeton, KY in 2017 (4,099 paved fwiw) about 2 hours and 40 minutes prior to totality. It was pretty packed, but the airport was very well prepared and had plenty of help marshalling and stacking the arrivals 2-3 deep along the edges of the ramp.

So, KAP 140 doesn't have VNAV, and the only vertical guidance function it has is for the glidepath on the approach. You could theoretically, maybe, put it into Approach mode well before the TOD, but I think there is an additional flag that gets set when the navigator is on an approach, so I...

What autopilot do you have?

Oooh, what a winner this guy is. He gets ordered not to fly his plane, he moves it out of state (and flies it back anyway). But, blatantly disobeying a judge's orders doesn't generally go over well. Looks like they added 1 count of first-degree felony contempt of court and 8 counts of...

Sorry I ended up getting there so late! I missed @TangoWhiskey and @SixPapaCharlie and probably some others. Big thanks to Grant for saving me some food! I flew the plane in after the airshow, and it was somewhere around my 35th-40th Fisk arrival. While I timed it such that I'd be one of the...

This! It's an excellent spot, and I'm glad we'll be in everyone's arch pictures. :D

Thanks for the sweet treat, and the demo! The automatic video sync overlay function is super cool!

It's in Google Maps as well.

Didn't read my whole post, didja? ;) The TL;DR is that in many cases you can get away without the cellular and not be missing much.