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I just bought a new 1 year subscription for my IFD 440 for $220.00 using two discount codes. AOPA 10 percent discount and another Jeppesen 50 dollar discount. The regular price is 299 for nav data. I had let my subscription lapse a couple of months while I was busy with fall harvest. Kind of...

Are you required to wait 8 hours after drinking a non-alcoholic beer to fly?

I really wanted to take my wife on a flying vacation, making multiple stops across the country from Kansas to the east coast. I realize this is pretty open ended, but I am curious about suggestions from others about cool places a pilot, who may not make a trip like this again, ought to stop at...

My memory may be bad but it seems to me that if you go past the 2 year transponder check, you can still legally fly but you have to shut off the transponder. Is that correct?

Is this common? Is it a problem? I am really curious what peoples thoughts are on cell phone usage while in the air and if you have used it, is it very often successful, especially at what altitudes.

So my question is, is it possible to safely set up and run lean of peak in a normally aspirated engine, say a Lycoming 0-540 with constant speed prop if you only have a single egt and cylinder gage? (one of each) The guy I talked with at the fly-in said it could be done by quickly pulling...

If I wanted to fly in and camp, is the camping area on the opposite end of where your plane would tie down, or would you be able to tent somewhat close to the plane? For those who have flown in and camped, what is the layout there? Is it realistic to be able to not need ground transportation...

I had a trip with three legs on three different days. Each day the barometric pressure was lower than the day before. In checking FlightAware, Each day's flight showed a different altitude variation. The day with the highest Barometric pressure, the first day showed my altitude about 300 ft low...

I was going to post this under the post Ryanb started but thought maybe it should be it's own thread. I am fortunate that I have been able to fly in nearly all sectors in the United States, and I am absolutely amazed at how great our air traffic controllers in this country are. I can honestly...

I am looking for stories where you were less than prepared for a circumstance, or lacked knowledge, or maybe just didn't quite have the skills you needed at particular point in your aviation career. What did you do or how did you recover? My first was my long solo cross country when working on...

I have been debating to post this, but I guess it could serve as a learning tool for others. One change however is that the tools we all have are much different today than what was available to me back in the mid 1990's. My best friend and I had spent a week in Oshkosh at Airventure, and were...

I commonly depart IFR from a non-towered airport. I can reach approach control or Center easily shortly after takeoff. My question is does ATC prefer I call them on the ground for the clearance by phone or do they prefer that i pick up my IFR clearance Airborne. Also, if it's a severe clear VFR...

I talked to a pilot yesterday at a fly-in who told me about an incident that happened to him a number of years ago. He was flying VFR on an airway that was going to clip the edge of Class B airspace. He was receiving flight following and was talking to Tampa approach. He said he wasn't...

I posted a reply in flight training about the cost of check rides, and after I posted it, I thought it might be better posted here under a new thread. I would love to see people post stories about someone who has been a "hero" in your eyes, as far as aviation is concerned. Here is mine: My...

I have an stec 50 autopilot that does not hold altitude well at all. When I set it, I think it may be working, but the altitude will drift. Most of the time it enters a very very slow climb. after about 5 to 15 minutes it is about 200 feet high. Also I have a vsi that is reading incorrectly...

I have a Piper Comanche with a 2 place softcom intercom. It works okay, but the problem is that whenever we fly with others we can't easily communicate. We are planning on going to Oshkosh this year with another couple. Is it possible to incorporate a portable intercom with my panel mount? If...

If you have an expired gps navdata on an Avidyne ifd440 or 540, can you still legally fly IFR filing /G if you are flying to an airport with an ILS or a VOR approach? You would be flying en-route GPS but VLOC approaches. Doesn't the Avidyne also receive VOR/VLOC/ILS signals? Those would not...

We just installed the Avidyne IFD440. I think we are going to like it a lot, based on the 2.4 hours we have flown with it so far. We were disappointed in one thing. The shop that installed it, did not know anything about the ability to monitor the standby audio frequency. I read somewhere...

With 20 months to go, I am looking at needing a new transponder and probably mode c encoder. I am not ADS-B compliant. I also do not have waas gps. Including install costs, what is my cheapest option? Is it the Appareo Stratus ESG or the Garmin GTX 335, or is there a less costly install and...