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Hope none of you were planning to fly IFR or Night VFR or with the autopilot any time soon... https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/0/AA5F59E4A5CFCD91862585D3000C5F0C?OpenDocument&Highlight=2020-18-51

Qantas is testing out a 20 hour flight. The test includes medical monitoring of the passengers(and crew). I'm thinking if you have to go that far that maybe it's not such a good idea for a flight. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49430711

In a story which gets weirder by the day. I had a prop strike, my engine was taken off, sent to the overhaul shop, during the prop strike required work(Lycoming) they found other issues so I paid the additional cost, over what insurance covered for the prop strike, to make it a full overhaul...

Just for fun I just made a quick conversion of all of the FAA MVA/MIA charts that were in AIXM format: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/mva_mia/ Into KML Format: http://www.chartbundle.com/mvamia/ Not all facilities have MVA or MIA charts in AIXM so some are...

So, I figured I'd ask the collective wisdom of the Internet on this one. Since Google doesn't seem to be helping. I was coming home today, back to KCVO and the local AWOS-3 is out of service and I'm not sure if the FBO acts as unicom, but they were closed anyway. I needed to fly an approach. 2...

Just curious if any of you have an agreement with your employer to allow you to fly yourself on company business in a plane you provide(rent or own) and can share the agreement. I'm negotiating with my employer right now to get it approved so I can fly to customer sites when it makes sense...

So, anyone headed out? If I can finish the stupid door seal next weekend I'm thinking about flying in Thursday afternoon/evening, camping, and then trying to get out before the airshow Friday. Edit: Well, door seal still not done. It's installed but needs some tweaks so the door actually...

So, my new part-travel job starts in 2 weeks and so I can maybe, finally justify a plane. Of course, I'm also planning to move to Oregon, so I have to move first and then buy the plane so California doesn't come after the Sales/Use tax without going through a bunch of hoops. So, not nearly as...

Because we had one of those rare sunny days here in Southern California I decided to take my tablets out into the back yard for a photo shoot. The contenders were: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, Google Nexus 7(2013), Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, Apple iPad Mini Retina(Mini 2), and the Samsung Galaxy...

Since I'm probably the last one to actually carry any paper I haven't seen this posted yet. I received a letter today from FAA AeroNav letting me know that once my current chart subscriptions expire I'll have to buy them from one of their Chart Agents. The interesting thing is it's not obvious...

So, I was thinking the other day that with the EFB apps having scratch pads where you can write notes down, maybe the next step is to integrate something like the Lightspeed FlightLink stuff so that it can continuously record and have a button to quickly play back the last n seconds. Of course...

So, I flew a fair distance today and Garmin Pilot kept crashing. So I switched to anywhere map, pulled up the plate for my destination, tuned in the ILS and.... nothing... As I was about to go through where the ILS was supposed to be I just had approach clear me for the visual since I had the...

Mostly about vendors and their stuff. The FAA's chart tax is still moving forward but no one seems to know exactly what form it will take or when. I'm starting to think scanning all the paper products might not be such a bad idea. (What if the FAA started taxing digital downloads and no one...

So, after hours of work I'm happy to announce a document on the basics of the GDL39 protocol as provided on the Bluetooth interface. The upside is that it's pretty simple and does almost all the ADS-B and FIS-B decoding for you(no 6 bit alphabets or random lat+lon encoding) The downside for...

So, I heard the announcement for the Jepp for Android App and installed it tonight. First on my rooted tablet, which it doesn't allow. Then on my Samsung 8.9 where it promptly crashed. I'm really getting the impression Jepp just doesn't care at all about the individual consumer. I liked Jepp...

So, I spent a few minutes today adding a boring new feature to chartbundle. An easy way to directly link to an image for an approach plate(will try for A/FD later maybe) http://www.chartbundle.com/qc/ is the description, and then after qc/ you can put whatever you want to search for...

So, I finally got around to taking my Motion CL900(Windows 7) tablet flying today. I put a full write-up on my blog: http://sdwflying.blogspot.com/2011/10/motion-cl900-in-cockpit-review.html But to summarize: Good tablet, it's larger than I'd really like, and the on-board GPS is deaf as a...

Well, I finally received a letter from the FAA about their digital product changes, some of the wording is a bit interesting. The preamble is inviting people to a meeting in December about the changes, this is what they say the background for the change is. So, basically, they want money. The...