Recent content by Jmcmanna

Sorry I’m late, did you do this? I worked a guy who did exactly this a week and a half ago I believe...came up from Indianapolis, did the skyline, then back to Indy. If it was you, you talked to me and you did everything perfectly.

Configuration changes at big airports change traffic flows all over the surrounding airspace. If the local “big” airport was landing in one direction, you’d get a certain route....then 5 minutes later the supervisor comes around and tells everyone “we are switching to xxx configuration” then a...

My ATC facility’s IDS (information dissemination system - the computers we use to pull up approach plates, etc...) reboots and defrags on the mid shift every night. 486 processors. This isn’t Podunk Approach, either.

What TCAS says and what is “legal” per the 7110.65 are not the same thing. In class B airspace VFR and IFR traffic is perfectly legal to cross paths with 500’ vertical separation, but the IFR airliner gets an RA every time it happens. I don’t have an answer for OP other than closely spaced...

Like @radarcontact said, the spacing requirement is 2 miles increasing to 3 within one min after takeoff. The 3 miles doesn’t matter if you get an immediate diverging heading. If you were on a 2-mile final while the heavy was rotating at 140 knots (and increasing), there really isn’t going to...

Sorry, late to the thread. I have a 1973 model (built in 1972) Arrow...I am just across the state line at BUU. Insurance for me this year was $1645, but I bumped my hull insurance coverage to $100,000 since I put a new engine in last year. The book says to rotate at 65mph. I get a much...

This is an educated guess: A lot of turboprop/Jet aircraft’s airspeed indicators start at 60 knots, so at 80 the needle is alive. It is also usually well below V1, so if there is an issue (like the CA and FO’s air speeds don’t match), they have time to safely abort the takeoff.

Yes, that is what I am saying. There are two ways that VFR flight following are put into the “computer”. One is into the overlying ARTCCs system. If the aircraft’s beacon code isn’t dropped within a certain distance from the destination airport, it is flagged as overdue and SAR is initiated...

California was bankrupt at the time too (I got an IOU for my state tax refund in 2007), so him paying the bill himself makes sense!

Statute? No. What actually happens? They treat it exactly the same way as if you didn’t close your VFR flight plan.

Once they say “radar contact”, they have an obligation to the pilot. If a pilot getting flight following decides to just squawk 1200 and stops talking, ATC is supposed to make sure they actually landed safely somewhere. It’s a CYA for the time one does that and then crashes somewhere, a...

Actually, he used NetJets! No idea who paid the bill; him or CA.

Speaking as a controller, Arnold used to commute from SMO to SMF daily M-F in a G-IV. Every morning at 8am they’d be off, and they’d arrive back at SMO about 6pm.

Just writing to also say that Bendix blows. When I bought my Arrow it had a KSN 770 already in it. Aside from being not a good product, their customer support department for that product was one guy who couldn’t come up with a reason that it would suddenly stop working for a few minutes at a...

If you wanted to upgrade anyway, you’d love the 440. I thought the Garmin 430 was the bees knees for a long time. Now I have an IFD-540 and couldn’t imagine having to go back :D