Recent content by FlyingPennyPincher

Can anyone provide a recommendation for an attorney to represent a private individual in a matter regarding maintenance and logbook records relating to a personal aircraft? Thank you in advance.

The rule is half your age plus 7.

A thought for everyone on the monetary side who's in the "you're throwing your money away" boat: Let's say a Non-WAAS GPS can be installed for $3,000 and you get 0% at resale. Let's say a WAAS GPS can be installed for $9,000, but you get 50% value back at resale. In the Non-WAAS example you're...

Wait... what? Either you're precisely incorrect, or I need to go back to the drawing board, or I've misunderstood your post. My understanding is that a non-WAAS GPS (or WAAS GPS) doesn't require ground-based backup to fly an RNAV approach. Along these lines, what WAAS does get you, however...

Where's the king of POA to tell us how smoke is never that bad?

Thank you for the concise and clear answer! I'm aware that LPV is out with non-WAAS. But can I fly to LNAV minimums on a chart that has the little WAAS in the upper left hand corner? KMTJ has an example of that. Same with KSUN (which if anyone still cares, is 4 miles in smoke as I type...

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Denverpilot, you're being a dick, you're not answering the question, and you're wrong. Pop open foreflight and click visibility. There are a lot of airports that are IFR or marginal VFR RIGHT NOW in smoke, and if you look into them, most of them don't have ground-based navigation but they do...

Dude... do you even read these posts or are you just trolling? Like I said from the beginning: there are no ground based approaches to the places I generally fly. And its not that I can't just seem to find my way around and need some help navigating with a VOR and a tablet. It's IFR flying...

Grrrrrr.... Yes, my point exactly. Believe it or not, we go IFR in smoke reasonably often and really margin VFR where I'd rather be IFR in smoke all the time.

Okay, got it. It worked for you once, therefore I should do it too. I guess you haven't read my posts about smoke and visibility being my primary concern.

I don't understand this thinking at all - there's still a ton of utility in non-WAAS *as far as I can tell* and I'm waiting for someone to give a concrete reason why that's not true. I know the conventional wisdom is WAAS - that's why I asked the question - but other than the unsupported issue...

Hey everyone... For someone who owns a plane, I'm finding that I'm an incredible penny-pincher when it comes to upgrades. Wanted to get your thoughts on putting in a non-WAAS 430. I have a basic old round-dial 206 IFR certified but with no IFR GPS (and no ADS-B out - I'll come back to...