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I want to find a 2-person kit or commercially built ultralight floatplane (or better yet - amphibian) than can be broken down and trailered. I have relatives with an up-north lake cabin and I want to be able to take a small floatplane up there to tool around. The simpler the better; open...

A flight I often like to do with new passengers is the 'Detroit Loop'. A large circle around Detroit Metro's airspace that takes me right over downtown. I've done it dozens of times, but while flying down the Detroit river I will often 'bust' Canadian airspace by a couple of hundred feet or...

I'm going to be moving into a hangar at a different airport soon. The new hangar is older, dingier and smaller than my current one, but it's cheaper and way closer to home. There's going to be a 4 month long overlap, and I want to use this time to prep the new hangar. The concrete floor is in...

I took my Vans RV-10 up on its first flight this past Saturday. I was talking to ATC on their frequency and to my father on the ground with a handheld tuned to 123.45 ('fingers'). Mostly I was keeping my father informed as to what I was doing and how the plane was behaving, but 10 minutes in...

Just now I re-traced the flight that started all this on SkyVector (it was a 45 minute VFR flight), and when I hit the Brief button I got a data dump that, when I pasted it into MS Word, was 76 pages long. I'm sure the Pontiac VOR inop info was in there somewhere, but it was buried under an...

I have another potentially unrelated question. I've heard a couple times in this thread of 'some radials not working' or 'become useless' on VORs. It was always my understanding that VORs propagate signals in all directions, that all radials work or none do. Can VORs have blind spots? What...

I probably do.

Russ R - it's the Pontiac, MI VOR. Ravioli - It was my hope the WX briefer would let me know things like this. Apparently these notices drop off after a while. And it's okay, I've come to expect a little snark when posting on this site.

Today I made a VFR flight to an airport I've never been to. To keep my nav skills sharp I decided to fly the route old school using VOR vectors in our club 1972 Skyhawk, keeping mu iPad and GPS as backup. I called WX Brief just before takeoff and got a weather briefing, and nothing significant...

Wow! That was an AWESOME article! That just moved my understanding of ATCs forward by multiple step. Thank you.

That traffic is usually scheduled airline flights, Boeing 757s and Airbuses circling thousands of feet above me. I'm typically at under 2,000' AGL the entire flight. I should probably qualify my original question by saying that I'm still a fairly low-time pilot (just cracked 100 hrs) and have...

I live in the Detroit area, and when I take friends and family on airplane rides I fly this standard route around Detroit Metro's class B airspace. I'm never in controlled airspace at any point and there usually isn't much traffic. It's been my habit to ask for flight following from Detroit's...