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How many of you still rely on a handheld microphone and the airplane's speaker instead of a headset? Bob Gardner

When I select "Search Forums" and enter my username the program says it never heard of me. Other forum functions work just fine. Bob Gardner

Go to www.asa2fly.com and click on Resources, Updates, FAA Knowledge Tests, to see questions updated in February/March 2017. Bob Gardner

How do I email or PM a fellow POAer? I don't want to start a conversation that includes third parties. Bob Gardner

The default font size is pretty small for these old eyes. Also, there is a lot of vacant space in the middle of each space that could surely be used more productively.

Maybe everyone but me has seen this already, but the current definition of known icing is now in AIM Table 7-1-8. Takes "forecast" out of the discussion. Bob Gardner

Show of hands, please. How many of you are flying/training in a plane with steam gauges for flying and GPS for navigating? Bob Gardner

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-16/pdf/2015-23265.pdf

Not a word about METARs or Skew-Ts, this book is for people serious about learning how today's weather observing, measuring, and prediction system came about. Starts w-a-a-a-a-y back when early man stopped thinking that storms were caused by angry gods and moves forward through the development...

Now that Cap'n Ron has left POA for the red board, I have to wonder if anyone pays attention to this provision of the Rules of Conduct: "Personal attacks are prohibited. This specifically means any text/post that is blatantly attacking another person on or off the forum, especially in a...

According to the survivor of the Bonanza that crashed in the North Cascades (as reported in this morning's paper), the pilot's wife was navigating by "using a tablet so that she could see the mountains. Then the GPS failed and....". The survivor said that they were in the clouds and when they...

Would anyone who flies a technically advanced airplane in South Florida PM me? Thanks. Bob Gardner

Changing required VOR and NDB approaches to "ground-based." This will make it easier for instructors and examiners to do their thing without flying all day to find a specific kind of approach as more and more procedures fade away. Bob Gardner

Back at the end of February there were some posts about the status of the VOR system. We had known about the FAA's Minimum Operating Network Plan since late 2014, but why mess up a good story" http://tinyurl.com/n9v3wz2 This URL will take you to the current situation: VORs are being...

Do you file I or Z (composite flight plan in the old days)? There is a note in http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/fss/AppendixA.htm which is not a pub we look at very often saying that "U. S. Domestic automation systems cannot accept a flight plan that begins under VFR and...

With ICAO flight plans coming in October, it is time for all pilots to register with LockMart to take advantage of the many services they offer...they are really into smartphones and other digital wonders. Bookmark their site or put it on your desktop. Take a few moments to look at all of the...

but not until October 1, 2015. The Feds are discontinuing the protected use of 122.0 and the assignment of specific briefers to the Flight Watch position and will simply include 122.0 in the list of FSS frequencies. Pilots will be able to ask weather questions of any briefer on any FSS...

This change is effective in 45 days. No public comment. Sec. 61.65 Instrument rating requirements. * * * * * (i) Use of an aviation training device. A maximum of 20 hours of instrument time received in an aviation training device may be credited for the instrument time...

If any of you are using the 2015 ASA test prep books, go to www.asa2fly.com, Resources, Updates, and download the October 2014 updates. Bob Gardner

Two Norwegian scientists have just won the Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine for identifying brain cells (in the hippocampus) that serve as an internal GPS...allowing the mice involved in the experiments to be...apparently...aware of how far and in which direction they have traveled from a...