Apple is well-known for exercising iron-fisted control over it's walled-garden platform, and I won't buy their gear.
The near-monopoly they enjoy in aviation is unearned and toxic.
I just noticed that the Garmin Aviation GTN750 trainer is showing a FS31 waypoint as the FAF on the KLNS VOR 31 approach.
I'd never noticed this before...although I admit I'm really only hitting a lot of VOR approaches for the first time due to checkride prep. It's been suggested that this is...
Yeah, my third-class expires at the end of the month, all my data for this round is entered but I didn't pull the trigger on it yet because I don't have the exam scheduled. I tried to get on yesterday to run the validation but the app was hung and unresponsive.
It sure smells like a year-end...
Listening to ATIS (or AWOS) before surface movement is smart. But ATIS is intended to reduce controller workload and radio traffic because tower is required to ensure landing and departing aircraft have winds and wx. If you're not landing or departing, they don't need to verify you have the...
Still down. The system has been around long enough that it shouldn't have end-of-year problems, and the leap second is long-gone.
I'll bet they're getting hammered with people needing 3rd class who foolishly believed FAA when they said repeatedly and publically that they'd have PBOR2...