Recent content by thegazelle

This should do the job

There is a bug with ios 6 and FF, and location services. Apparently external GPS devices are having problems communicating with FF. It's very frustrating, and has pretty much rendered it useless as a moving map for me. I just found out they have a procedure to work around this, but have yet to...

You might want to watch this video on YouTube, it discusses some of what you're talking about: Defcon 17 - Air Traffic Control: Insecurity and ADS-B

Someone else might come up with something more elegant, but a rough way to get this done would be to get Foreflight as suggested, and create waypoints manually, or using lat/lon points to do so. Unless you can find a way to import waypoints into Foreflight, putting them in manually is going to...

Sporty's laminated charts $16.95 No complaints other than price. Durable, won't rip, and can use a dry erase marker without issue.

Agree 100% with Al. Picking your DPE might be easier said than done though. I was warned by multiple people about the on staff DPE at my school. When I investigated using another DPE, I was told that the school wouldn't allow me to rent a plane to do it. If I wanted use their plane, I had to use...

My IFR knowledge is pretty limited, so please forgive me. If you had to go missed at KVLL, you would navigate via GPS to PSI. True statement?

For future reference: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ In a pinch I would recommend a smartphone app.

Here's a webinar I found useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFY9CC2NLxs

Looks like they added 2000 AGL since I checked it earlier. Doesn't show up on the site though...

Call me Nancy Drew Downloaded the shape files, XML contained exact lat/long coordinates. 33.1758332436221, -96.7247222222222 Put those into google maps. A nursing home! Sounds innocuous enough, but those old people hate airplanes. Searched McKinney news, and sure enough...

Can you post text information that accompanied it?

The real time AWOS site they have is pretty slick too: http://216.201.244.214/

Count your blessings. The reason they have dash mounted cameras is because insurance fraud is ridiculously rampant. Example 1 : BMW stops in traffic and backs into vehicle behind it Example 2 : Guy throws himself into a car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQdW6yS5o4&feature=youtu.be