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A few times when flying to an airport under a class B shelf on FF, I eventually get handed off to an approach controller who will then start vectoring me towards my airport and almost always it is a vector and altitude that will put me into the Bravo. Most of the time I will get a "You're...

This is a question for those of you who live up where the temperatures struggle to get above freezing. Why? :D No seriously my question is how do you handle flying somewhere for the weekend? Do FBO's up there have places where you can plug your engine heaters in? Do you rely on heated hangars...

The discussion on setting up custom holds in the G1000 got me thinking: Just how common are holds these days? I fly quite a bit commercially and it seems that at least in the airline world that your flight is more likely to be delayed or slowed down instead of holding at the destination. In GA...

I just got back from a trip to Vegas to spend a day at the CES show and thought I'd share my experiences getting in and out. There have been a few threads in the past about whether to go VFR or IFR so hopefully my experiences will help others asking that question. I flew in on Thursday and...

A couple of weeks ago I made plans to pick up a friend at 10 AM at another airport nearby (about 35 miles away) and to then fly elsewhere. I checked the weather and the pickup airport was VFR and the final destination about 150 nm distance was IFR so I filed an IFR plan from the pickup airport...

I fly a fair number of Angel Flights and as part of the process the passengers sign a waiver and release of liability. I'm a PPL and just fly for pleasure. So this brings up a question: If it is advisable to get Angel Flight passengers to sign a waiver surely the same logic applies to other...

So enough time has passed that I can now tell this story. :lol: No, I didn't do anything illegal or something like that. Maybe just a little dumb. I will be the first to admit that I've done plenty of dumb things in my life. The plan is as I get older that I will do fewer and fewer stupid...

Just a theoretical question :D How would one go about doing this? I was thinking the best way would be to find a way to customize an existing autopilot unit. It should be possible with an android GPS device to control and dynamically sequence the autopilot. For sh*ts and giggles let's say it is...

Hello everyone. I hope this is the right place to post this question. I had an interesting discussion with another pilot today. He told me about a time where he didn't have a RNAV approach loaded in his system (I don't know what he had he didn't say) but he said he just used his iPad and...