Recent content by river_rat

Sounds like a good plan. You might want to consider following the 210 to the 605. You can follow the 605 all the way down to KSLI. It can be hard to pick out landmarks in the LA basin expecially at low altitude.

The SLI VOR is on the field that makes it easier to find. It's big and not too hard to spot. Use flight following and/or stay above 2500 ft and you don't have to worry about FUL. Also LGB is nearby and also easy to spot so don't get them confused.

This is where we used to go at Havasu http://www.havasusprings.com/ They have a so-so restaurant on site. Havasu City is about 30 minutes away and Parker is about 15 minutes away.

I have to start by saying I have never used any of the VFR routes through LAX but the Mini route says "LAX must be in a west traffic or over-ocean configuration". Landing over the ocean isn't going to be happening unless there is a Santa Ana blowing. I can't figure out if that statement is...

Sometimes they hold jets on the taxiway between 19R and 19L, if you are landing on 19L check that area and stay above the jet blast.

A 060 heading from the pier will get you headed in the right direction until you see the airport. If it's not busy you will probably get right traffic for 19R, if it's busy you will get "cross the tower at or above 1200 ft enter left downwind for 19L, contact tower on 119.9" pattern altitude for...

Probably dropping sterile medflys, if you didn't get any on your window you weren't that close :D http://video.pbssocal.org/video/2343925483/

Sunrise is good, that is were I rent. You will probably need to do a Catalina checkout while you are doing the aircraft checkout. greg

You had better luck with Raspbmc then I did but like I said in my previous post openelec was much better for me.

Update. I did some reading so I tried openelec for the Pi today and it is much better. The menus are smooth and it never randomly reset. It did lock up a couple times trying to use airplay to play a video but that may have been because I didn't have the settings in XBMC correct because it...

That's the first time, after that it boots in under a minute.

256MB

I borrowed a Pi and tried it last night. There seems to be 3 versions for the Pi, I loaded this one http://www.raspbmc.com/ Very easy to load the Memory card from a windows machine. After you load the memory card, you install it in the Pi and turn it on then wait at least 30 minutes...

Nate, If you get bored you can go to http://forums.vwvortex.com/forumdisplay.php?574-Automatic-Transmission-Forum and read about everyones automatic transmission problems. Don't know which transmission you have but VW uses Aisin a lot and those are not made in Germany. From my reading the...

12/30 is the main runway for the Jets and IFR traffic. 25L is normally used for inbound VFR traffic and pattern work. You can request either but it may be easier to setup for the left pattern for 25L and you may have to go to Signal Hill to enter the pattern.