Recent content by ksarrowpilot

Ah memories... My first plane was the first Sport ever made, N2319W. I bought the plane when living in San Diego in '95. I flew it from Oceanside to Burnet TX, then up to Gardner Kansas. VFR the whole way. No GPS. No autopilot. Last leg to Kansas was in 48knt headwind. That plane is a slow...

I departed from 3CK in IMC on Sunday. I called the national number, and they gave me the phone number for the local ATC to call. Called them. The guy was very quick to provide back a clearance with void time if not off in 10 minutes. Gave me a heading direction on take off. Took off, went...

I'm a new Cirrus driver too. We have an '05 G2 and I just logged my 20th hour. Our gauges by the throttle quadrant have been very accurate, but one thing I've noticed is that on climbs and descents, if you have 20 gallons or less in the wing, the level drops drastically. It's accurrate in...

Perhaps more importantly... The pilots are still flying too. Sold my 1968 Arrow in August, partnered with a friend last month to buy a 2005 g2 sr22. It's a fantastic airplane. Don't buy into any of the negative hype. Go find one to fly for yourself.

I'm working on my IFR rating and have a question. How does one determine which clouds are OK to fly into? The weather yesterday in KC had many layers of clouds from 2500 agl up to FL400. See the attached photo. No clouds were showing up on radar as no moisture and no lightning was present...

A friend and I are considering the purchase of a newer turbo charged 182. I have never used supplemental oxygen and do not know the process for bringing along a bottle of oxygen and a mask. There will be times when I want to fly over 12,500 for over 30 minutes. I suppose I could ask my flight...

Actually that's the way I was instructed to fly it VFR almost 20 years ago, but like ihenning said you can legally cross at any altitude in any direction. I used to rent 172's from Sunrise aviation at KSNA, and they wanted you to turn north and fly up the coast to the Queen Mary while climbing...

Are there any drawbacks to keeping a tanis/rieff heater plugged in for an extended period of below 32f? Like three or four weeks of continual heating when you are hoping to fly anytime, but may not be able to?

I was in the same boat with my 1968 Arrow, which came with an Apollo G65 approved for enroute, but not approaches. A garmin 430 install quote was more than $8000 last year, so I opted to rent a 172 for $145 an hour to "learn" gps approaches and use the arrow for LOC, VOR, ILS. A good...

Go to www.faa.gov and download the FREE instrument flying handbook. It's concise and does a great job telling you what you need for the test. It's a large PDF file. If you have an iPad, you can save it to iBooks by clicking in the top right corner and you can read it anytime you like.