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The really sad part about Alaska 261 is that if they had stopped trying to fix the problem earlier, they might well have been able to land it -- of course the crew didn't know that. A quick recap for those who aren't familiar, ASA261 was a MD-80 that had the horizontal stabilizer become...

Call flight service. Get a briefing. Specifically ask about TFRs. If they fail to tell you about it, ASRS. They can still violate you. At which point (as much as it will cost), lawyer up and let it play out. You may still get a suspension, but I suspect it's much less likely.

I really like the cirrus setup and flight performance. The side stick is incredibly ergonomic and promotes good flying practices of keeping one hand on the stick at all times, even during AP operations. However, it is probably not the best airplane for a new pilot. In particular, the earlier...

I strongly agree. Not every plane will have an autopilot, obviously. If a VFR pilot wanders into IMC, the autopilot (if they have it) is the single best tool available to them. I actually worry about this in my own flying. When in actual (very rare now that I live in Arizona), I typically use...

We're in Vegas for CES and we were thinking of taking our sales people on a helicopter tour. I've heard some disturbing things about maintenance and general safety policy of some of the operators in the past. Can anyone recommend someone trustworthy. On another note, if anyone else is in...

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But does that apply to the published RNAV routes (T and R)? That is, if a center / approach had a radar outage, they could still legally clear aircraft (with appropriate GPS) to fly an RNAV route, couldn't they?

Briefly back to the autopilot question: Barring any limitations on the usage of the autopilot, keep it connected until you transition to visual flight. There's a non-trivial chance that you're going missed. At which point, you'll be applying power, cleaning up the plane, flying the missed and...

Wow! What amazing illustrations. ~ Christopher

In general I prefer to be in a real plane as opposed to a sim, however, my own ability to fly DME arcs is almost entirely due to Microsoft flight simulator. Obviously, it's no an approved device, but I was absolutely horrible at DME arcs until I spent a bunch of time practicing them in FS. Since...

Jeanie, I'm getting close to biting the bullet and doing this as well. Let me know how it goes for you. I've been practicing some approaches from the right seat, and it's somehow harder to do the scan looking across the cockpit than looking in front of you. ~ Christopher

Costco has 1 15KW delivered for $3K for the next month. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?Prodid=11665706 Hell, instead of the almost $6K for 20KW, you could just get two of these. ~ Christopher

Once you've flown with AOA, you'll have a really hard time going back. Instead of looking at airspeed on final, you just fly the AOA.

Nope. I use nano to set up ifconfig, and them yum (or apt-get if I'm unlucky) install emacs. On those rare occasions where I have to load VI for some reason, I end up with a bunch of cruft in the file from trying to figure out what to type to close it. ~ Christopher

Ron, yeah, looking at the rule I guess that makes sense, although, from a purely practical perspective, it would make sense for a CFI without an -I to be able to train a non-instrument CPL student for exactly the same reason it makes sense for PPL. For those of you with -I, how hard is it? I've...

Dude!

ZOMBIE! But, since I own zombieswantyourbrain.com, I'm allowed to contribute to keeping this Zombies alive. Also, since I just read this thread in it's entirety, I fell like I deserve some kind of award (or at least a couple hours of my life back). ~ Christopher

Hawthorne (KHHR)? It's practically on the grounds of LAX. There's an FBO on the field you could probably work something out with. http://airnav.com/airport/KHHR

I would train in the 172. I love the DA-40, but it is a somewhat more challenging plane to fly. Once you've gotten your PPL, I expect it should be an easy transition for you. The other advantage of the DA-40, as a cross country machine is it has a great ramp presence -- the FBO you're visiting...

Congratulations! Too bad about the CRUZ (PiperSport). I have a lot of time in various iterations of that aircraft, and it is hands down my favorite LSA (I've even done an 8 hour+ non-stop in it).