Recent content by Phil Verghese

Yeah there's going to be a lot of things that are different. Some will be good changes, some maybe not so good, but that's all part of the adventure.

Yup, don't want to base the airplane too far away from Mountain View. It looks like RHV is going to be our new home base, and we're going to try to find a place to live that's in the neighborhood of Mountain View and RHV. We're planning to rent for a while, and there's a couple of places in...

Thanks Gary. Hope you and Mary have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.

That would be great Chris. Thanks for the offer!

Thanks everyone! The local advice is much appreciated. Part of our house hunting trip during the first of the year will also be airport hunting too. I'll definitely check out SQL, PAO, RHV, and HWD. Lots of folks recommended RHV, so that's now the first airport on our short list. I think Half...

We're moving to the San Francisco Bay Area next month, so we need to figure out where we want to base our Mooney 201. I'll be working in Mountain View, and we'll be living somewhere near there. Not sure exactly where yet -- the house hunting trip is in a few weeks. I'd like to get opinions and...

I'm working on getting all the Angel Flight organizations on there. Unfortunately, each Angel Flight group is independent so I've got to find the right technical contact in each organization to get an electronic feed of available missions. I have sent messages to each organization listed as...

Sure, Grant. Feel free to let them know. Glad you find it useful! Phil www.pfactor.com

Thanks. It's updated automatically once each day. There's a little note that tells you when the last update was right above the map.

I'm an Angel Flight pilot, and one thing I have wanted was a way to see the list of available missions plotted on a map. I wanted to play around with Ruby on Rails and Google Maps anyway so I put together a web application I call AngelMap that does just that. It gets a feed of available missions...

Hilarious! I found this link to an extended version of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWuVabQiCw Phil www.pfactor.com

If you don't have an HSI, the best technique I've found for dealing with the reverse sensing on a back course is repeating the mantra "I am the needle." That works well for me. I don't even think about the reverse sensing, just which way I need to adjust my heading to move the needle back to...