Recent content by Steamflyer

Reasonable advice because in about 80% of the country (geographically), the initial fix and the one beyond that is the destination airport. GPS is a game-changer compared to VOR airways of the past - direct it is. DNA along the coasts of course.

Look towards the end of the runway, feel the ground effect, use the runway edge for alignment, and work it on. Alternative, for full stall, “don’t let it land.” When it does anyhow after running out of elevator, there you go. My guess is that landings improve when one has mastered the bit...

^^^ Yes Current or former 121 pilots can be very instructive, particularly for IFR. I do the same when can.

Same here. However, we learned in 150/152s, then 172s, and were adept at keeping the nose wheel high off the ground in the flare, only to be gently and controllably lowered to the grass. See less of this today, which could account for the prohibitions on grass - the nose gear is a fragile flower...

Andover Flight Academy at Andover/Aeroflex (12N) in NJ. Damian is chief instructor but all are good. About 1800' of grass parallel to a paved runway. From J-3 to Stearman available to learn in - only tailwheel may use the grass runway. Harrison Ford and and James Brolin trained there. Picture...

That seems like a number almost related to the number of certificated fields with scheduled service (from memory it's in the mid-500s, though of dominated by some 30-40 principal airports of course, which do also have ILS). Here is the actual status of runways with LPV (the lowest minima...

Is there a diagram for high altitude take-offs in the POH? If there is, you'll probably see that they recommend a much higher prop speed that 2350. You can use the same diagram/table for power setting for max performance climb at the respective altitude you climbed to, as opposed to took off...

Guess that's why YMMV. Do use a ventilated mount, but after 3000 hours with iPad/FF, seems good enough. Don't look at the screen constantly and admit that with darkest glasses it might be a tiny bit dimmer than ideal, but works well enough. Years ago used to give customer support feedback and...

The overall Apple experience is so good, it invites captor-captive syndrome. Why anyone would not be in their ecosystem, have no idea. Seamless across iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Everything just works. I guess if you are "gamer" (other than Xplane12) you might need some Windows/Android solution, but...

I’d tee in an external gage and see what it reads (on the ground) as a start.

I think you are absolutely right, but pretty sure I've gotten it on the initial clearance sometimes. Certainly had it yesterday when picked up a pre-filed IFR flight in the air.

Before you replaced the accessory case and oil pump, what was the oil pressure in the engine (the one that was hard to keep primed, but presumably you ran it at least once). Those appear to be some fairly low oil pressure readings. FWIW I have run Phillips X/C 20W-50 in a C-85 (very similar to...

It is not uncommon to get a clearance that ask "can you maintain your own obstacle and terrain clearance to xxxx feet?" I assume but don't know the altitude is their MVA in the sector where the strip without approaches is located. How you do it is up to you - if it's socked in to the ground...

Short answer, given longer already, is no. You are to TRK directly to the waypoint. The HDG you need to stay on that track is for you to figure out. An HSI makes it much easier. So you need to rejoin the original line; sounds like you were about a mile left or right of course. If the...

Fly IFR a bunch more. Even when it's clear. Occasionally it'll take you a bit longer, but you'll learn the system. Often in NorCal, SoCal, and NE, you'll get some convoluted updated route back from ATC. Great, plug that in and start flying. Often they'll trim much of it off, saving you time...