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Oops.. message got cut off.. After completing run up one needs an additional clearance to the departure runway as there are jets entering and leaving the taxiways. It was an interesting experience.. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

I was at KSNA recently and hadn't been to a busy class C in a while. Ground asked me to taxi to "Runup". I didn't realise at the time that the runup area is half way down Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

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I tend to agree. The crab is aerodynamically no different than normal flight. The slip configuration has a different drag coefficient and whether the difference in energy dissipated due to a longer path or a different drag value is a simulation exercise.

Darn, I have been stupid. :mad2: The answer is of course (c)! The headwind component significantly reduced as wind went from 270 to 180. I was somehow thinking of going from an initial 0 headwind to a 5kt direct xwind. The difference between the slip and crab has to do with the drag difference...

How did you get a higher ground speed if your track is 270 and the wind is 90 deg from your left (180)? You will need to turn slightly into the wind (lets say heading 265), losing some ground speed. If you put this into a calculator and reduce your TAS to something really small, you will see the...

Hardware (IC design). For about 25 years.

Both (b), but can't tell for sure if slip or crab/kick will be more "efficient". Intuitively, the slip seems to be more efficient from a drag point of view hence closer to the original landing spot.

I had the experience of flying for about an hour or so in solid IMC when returning from Seattle to the SF Bay area. There was no auto pilot, so one had to be focused on instruments. I could not climb out of it due to icing (around Thanksgiving). Reaching middle of Oregon, it began to clear up.

I am sure Tesla could provide a lighter and more powerful motor to Pipistrel.

Shoes and jeans for me from flying the airlines to my own plane. No exceptions.

I have not been able to find the old approach plates online, but the GTN-650 simulator still has the waypoints. It is LBH-MASGD-1300 (MDA) - BTG. The MA procedure seems to be a climbing left turn to BTG VOR, just like the current RNAV approach. The altitudes, I am not so sure. The MDA appears to...

I was the one speaking about both the old NDB and the current RNAV approach. The GTN-650 simulator has the old NDB approach - so one can see the fixes, but no step-down information.

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I flew the RNAV approach a week ago. There are quite a few obstructions one has to be careful about. The circle to land is tricky for 25 (left traffic) due to the bluff close by on downwind. Fltplan didn't have the approach georeferenced for some reason. I wrote to them and they plan to fix it...

Try Cameron Park (o61), even more fun than Auburn! Troutdale, OR has a bluff pretty close to the runway (less than a mile away) and it seems to be right at the down to base turn on 25 (left traffic). It is just 400 ft below the pattern altitude. I was pretty surprised by that. This was what I...

The GTN 650/750 simulator still has the 07 NDB-A LNAV overlay approach. The FA course is 062 deg. I guess the missed approach dictated it to become circling with high MDAs. It also certainly would have interfered with the PDX traffic from the looks of it.

Troutdale, OR (KTTD) is a circling RNAV. Possibly due to Portland International being so close to the west and similar runway alignment (East/North is high terrain). So KTTD has a 019 deg for the final approach course with circle to land either 25 or 7.

Quite impressed with iFly. Lots of useful features and they don't nickel and dime you like Garmin for geo-referencing or Safetaxi. But unfortunately I have all Garmin avionics which work well together but don't work with other apps/hardware.

Metam is a very good weather app. Has a widget which will give you the weather at your preset airport on the phone directly without having to open the app. You can access all kinds of weather charts both US and international. It also as a route feature which gives you weather along the route...