Recent content by Lon33

Skycatchers at Corsair at KVNY. Ditto what bluesideup said about “quick” checkout.

Alas, it won’t. Only software purchased through the Xbox store can be installed on an Xbox. That is a huge difference between MSFS for Xbox and MSFS for PCs. RealSimGear products need their own drivers, and those are not available from the Xbox store. Apparently it is not easy to get software...

It’s good that you didn’t know it. That means you’ve never tried to fly when your fuel tanks were empty.

When I fly, my buddy uses his iPhone to watch for traffic and it works fine for us. Because I’m flying, he has both hands free and is able to hold his phone and use his other hand to pan and zoom. When he flies, I use my iPad Mini to watch for traffic and I prefer that to my iPhone. In both...

|Also, what add-ons can be purchased to change the equation in any way? Very few add-ons work on an Xbox. Most work only with the PC version of MSFS. This is so even with software add-ons, because ALL software for the Xbox MSFS must be downloaded from the Xbox store, and not all MSFS software...

I recently bright an Xbox and MSFS, because I wanted the satellite images that X-Plane does not (easily) provide. The Xbox images are remarkable, but otherwise it has been a disappointment. Even though MSFS is four years old, it’s still full of bugs, about which Microsoft and Asobo have been...

This, I think, is the explanation for what you’re feeling. Your post was not a “rant.” It was an honest and healthy acknowledgment of where you are right now. All of us will give up flying some day. I ask myself not only when, but also “why.” The best answer, I think, is that enough of the...

The weather in LA at the end of Sept has been good in past years — a little hot even at the coast and sometimes windy, but otherwise VFR. This Sept, though, has had several MVFR and even IFR mornings at the coast. For rentals, consider Proteus at KSMO. It has several Pipers.

Others may have been using their GPSs to make the crossing. The waypoints are SMO (on the north end) and VPLSR (on the south). edit: Wayne’s post went up as I was typing mine!

This is good advice, especially because you’re so young. No point in rushing your education and then having to burn time while you get to be old enough to be an airline pilot. Also — and I say this seriously — college years are the best years of many people’s lives. Why skip or rush that phase...

Your thought about Sling in Torrance is a good one, and you are right about what it has available in the way of planes and instructors. I rent there regularly and it’s a first class operation. The instructors there all are CFIIs, and they did their training and checkrides there, so they know...

Good advice, in my opinion. In 12 years of flying, I needed my handheld only once while in the air. But it was in my flight bag in the back of the plane where I couldn’t reach it. Can’t imagine what I was thinking when I left it there — except perhaps that I had never before needed it. Since...

Good. Glad to hear it. But that still leaves the question: how and why did the plane pitch forward, tail over nose?

How would that happen? I don’t think that kind of plane has a brake on the nose wheel. Am I wrong about that, or did I not understand that you were making a joke?

[Musta been the 50. As I recall, those were not Freeway legal.] Mine was a Honda 150. It was freeway legal (as I recall), but not freeway rideable. When it got up to any speed at all, it transmitted every little bump or groove in the street right up to my spine. It was like riding a bucking bronco.