Recent content by gfunc

Easy peesy - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.9. If Mr. Moneybags was extra nice I'll get me the Concorde and an Avro Vulcan. I'm never normally nationalistic/jingoistic, but us Brits have made some damn lovely aeroplanes in the past. Perhaps throw in the DHC-1 Chipmunk and Dassault Rafale for...

Here's some from pics from my flight up to Lake George. NY yesterday. The lower Adirondacks are really at peak colour right now. Looking NW into the Adirondacks: Over Lake George at 5,000ft: I hope these links work! Cheers, Gareth.

Wow! Thanks for all the responses guys! It looks like the whole process is pretty straightforward - I'm going to bring a couple of pax and force them to take hundreds of pictures as I'm sure I'll be too busy watching for traffic throughout. Does anyone know if it would be seen to be rude or...

Hi Folks, I part motivated by another forum post and nagging friends I'm looking at flying the Hudson VFR corridor in the next few weeks. I aim to fly from north to south, do a quick 180 over the Verrazano bridge and return north. I guess I'll need a pit stop at Westchester before returning...

Thanks for all the tips guys! On a related note, what is the legality approaching a private owner and flying their aeroplane in return for operating costs? I understand in the UK (where I'm from) that people have been 'sidestepping' certain rental regulations by the renters buying a minuscule...

Hi folks, I wondering if anyone knows of a good way to come across rental aircraft in my local area? Google is as good as the user, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of any listings websites or similar? I live in Albany, NY (about a mile from the threshold of RWY01) but I've only come across...

My money is on a computer/data problem. If you look at the radar imagery on the RAP site it tells you if the display is in precip or clear air. At time of typing the archive is still available - you'll see only about a third of them are in clear air mode. If I remember correctly the night of the...

Something about turning head-on to faster traffic or people joining downwind makes me nervous, even in a controlled environment (class C). I always prefer to extend downwind and most of the controllers at ALB seem to concur. I've only been asked for a 360 once here (on the dead side of the...

I think maybe you're right about that one - I've checked a few archived radar images ( http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/radar/ ) from different sites and they seem to swith to clear air mode at the same time for a few frames. When I've been in NWS offices I've found that the individual offices...

This is a phenomena known as anomalous propagation (or anaprop) which is caused by temperature inversions bending the radar beam back to the surface. It tends to happen under high pressure conditions at night. Unlike ground clutter, which is stationary in nature it is hard to filter since it is...