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Title says it all. The approach in question is the RNAV 17 at KMPV. The approach has an LPV DA, an LNAV/VNAV DA that is about 100 feet higher, and an LNAV MDA that is higher still. The LPV DA is NA by NOTAM due to trees close to the airport perimeter, evidently affecting clearance on the missed...

Yesterday I had to have my car towed to a local garage after it failed to start outside a Montpelier laundromat. Though it looked like a failed starter, the likelier cause is seizure of the A/C compressor clutch bearing. The symptom for the last month has been a loud chatter under the hood for a...

So as reported earlier, I am fully ADS-B compliant now. My last PAPR was without errors, and traffic is displayed without any hitches on my GMX-200 MFD. Soon after installation, I called Sirius XM to suspend my Aviator Lite subscription for the GMX-200. Since I was still getting weather...

Lest we begin to think man is more powerful than Nature, December 26, 2004 is a day that should remind us that we are not. Those who survived will not soon forget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami This was a monster, third largest quake ever recorded...

I picked up my plane today after having a GTX-345R installed. Avionics shop claimed to have ground tested the installation and everything checked out good. I pulled a PAPR on my flight home and was shocked to see that the Flight ID check was 100% fail. Everything else looked good. I was puzzled...

Does anyone know what that abbreviation stands for? I encountered it in a UUA PIREP for LLWS: MHT UUA /OV MHT FINAL RWY 35/TM 1455/FL006/TP B737/SK OVC006/RM LLWS +/- 8 TO 10 KTS ON FINAL, BRAM

So I finally got my GMX-200 back today after being sent out to Garmin in late August. The issue was intermittent spontaneous rebooting, nearly always preceded by the ownship "jumping" around on the map, sometimes by hundreds of miles. It happened much more frequently in warm weather than in...

I've been waiting for an opening at my avionics shop to install a GDL-82, but the shop learned last week that that unit is not an option for my plane if I want ADS-B in displayed on my GMX-200, because my current GDL-90 will stop receiving ADS-B traffic sometime in March 2020 due to...

On a recent long cross-country at 9000, running LOP, I noticed an increased smell of what seemed to be exhaust in the cabin; however, my Aeromedix CO monitor read zero. The smell lingered for a couple of days until I aired the plane out today, then took it up to see if the problem would recur...

I spent most of this afternoon at the airport waiting for the forecast of plain IFR, and not LIFR or VLIFR, to come true so I could go out and shoot some approaches in actual. Here is a sampling of the METARs from earlier today: KMPV 071611Z AUTO 34006KT 2SM BR OVC001 11/11 A3028 RMK AO2...

Over northern Vermont right now Foreflight on my iPad shows several Airmets: for IFR, Icing, Mountain Obscuration, and two airmets for Turbulence. On my iPhone it only shows the Turbulence airmets. Same area. What gives? There does not seem to be a setting to display only certain airmets...

So I did a fuel run down to 2B3 today. Conditions were pretty good VFR on the way down, with scattered to broken at about 3500 MSL, but on the way back the clouds started to form a solid deck and lowered, and I felt I was going to be forced to scud run to get back VFR, so I called up Boston...

The subscription series from PilotWorkshops that is. I'm considering subscribing and just wanted to solicit opinions from those who use it or have used it.

While driving, that is... on an iPhone running iOS 11.4.1. Complaint: it doesn't work. Spam calls come through as readily as if DND wasn't activated. I had one just yesterday while I was trying to listen to NPR on the car radio. Yes, I was driving, about 35 mph. When I stopped to block the...

So my phone rang just now. Of course, as nearly always, it was a spammer. In the process of fishing the phone out of my pocket, the random presses of the power and Home buttons resulted in the phone declining the call. Wonderfully fortuitous! Well, no. When I pressed the Home button to unlock...

Just wondering if anyone knows of any good apps that have come out since the last time this was discussed... that are actually effective? These a$$#o!es are driving me up a wall... no less than 3 in the last 20 minutes. That's way above my usual 7-10 per day rate. They are, as usual, all from...

Let me preface this by saying that as far as I'm concerned this is purely hypothetical -- the FAA has NOT sent me any letters asking for more information. In fact, other than a notice of registration renewal last year, I haven't gotten ANY letters from the FAA in over two years. And I have no...

I'll be posting this question to Cardinal Flyers later on, but for now just wanted to relate what happened today and ask a couple of questions. I was going to make a fuel run to a field about 50 nm south, but upon takeoff, when I raised the gear handle... nothing. I'm sure I heard/felt the...

So it is cold here in Vermont, about 19F today with a stiff steady wind out of the north. I asked the FBO owner to plug in my Reiff heater last night in preparation for a flight this morning. It was plugged in all night but was out on the ramp by 0730 this morning, and I ended up not getting to...

The avionics shop can't fly me back today but the plane is ready to go, so I was thinking of taking a short fuel run down to 2B3, but this NOTAM caught my eye: !BGR 01/326 2B3 RWY 18/36 REDL OUT OF SERVICE 1801142001-1805312359 I checked the P/CG for REDL but couldn't find any entry under the...