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Re: Visible moisture, below freezing temperatures, but no icing. How is this possible APR911 - I really enjoyed your discussions but I think the correct spelling is "thermogodamics".:D

I always liked this one (for selected passengers:D). I stole it from someone on the internet a few years ago but I don't recall who it was. Important Passenger Boarding Information Welcome aboard this non-commercial flight in the vicinity of S.E Mich. We will be departing shortly and with any...

I built my own based on a concept that was used at one of the flight schools during my primary training. It's basically printed on two sides of an 8.5x11 sheet then folded in half. After folding, the back page is the preflight, the front page is in-flight checks, the inside front is the...

Depends on what kind of flying I'm doing. Most of it lately has been taking friends and family for a joy ride within 50 miles or so of home. For most of that I don't really need a chart or VOR. Just look out the window and go where I want to go. I already know where the Class B, C, and D...

I don't have a 172 checklist in this format but you can easily modify the attached Excel file. I like this format because it folds in half so the pre-flight is on the "back" page. Of course, you just turn the thing over when doing the pre-flight so the pre-flight checklist is facing up. (duh!)...

If you do cancel, don't forget your next learning experience - keep watching the weather to see what it really does.

Yeah, just slightly heavier than a 172:rolleyes: I, too, got 0.3 in my logbook the day I got a ride in it.

Looks like a trick question to me.:rolleyes: It seems to me I'd still be in Class E airspace for the full time the rocket was flying.

I think it depends. Are the students members of the club and, as members of the club, part owners of the planes? If so then I don't believe 100 hour inspections are required since the "owner" is supplying his/her own plane.

Actually, although they try to keep things to 3 degrees, VORs can be off up to 6 degrees according to (a) one of the guys in Oklahoma and (b) what I've found on the charts. When I told them I found one that was off 10 degrees they were surprised but said it was possible due to backlogs. This...

Great to hear that Naviator is using that! I hope more of the on-line apps are starting to do the same but I can assure you that many of them weren't a few years ago. Worse yet, most of them gave me some really arrogant responses when I contacted them about the discrepancies I was seeing and why...

Another possibility I haven't seen mentioned (and very few seem to be aware of) is that many on-line planners use the VOR to establish magnet north and that can easily be off by up to 6 degrees (FAA tries to reset them when they get that far off) and I've seen as much as 10 degrees. I don't...

Is this classic internet communications issues? I'm sure some of those "40 hour" comments were tongue in cheek (at least I sure hope so) but I'm not sure about all of them - not a single smilie anywhere.

But that can go the other way, too. Very often on our long runway (7500') I land short on purpose to reduce my taxi time. See 23L at KYIP - if there's a good head wind I can sometimes make the turn off on G (the white taxiway in the Google Earth link attached - 900') or, at worst, make a 180 a...

Well, this is likely to get rather long so I'll apologize now. Some think using flight sim for VFR practice is a waste of time, others find it useful. I found it very useful initially but now that I have many hundreds of hours on it and a couple hundred in the real thing, it's still useful but...

Something doesn't look kosher about those charts. Many of them seem to show far more sun at the beginning and end of the month than at the middle of the month. The overall seems reasonable but the details just don't look right to me. Am I reading them wrong?

I didn't know it was up yet either. And I'll second #2 on this post. When I first saw this a long time ago I decided to opt out because so many airports I could afford to fly to had already been claimed. Maybe I missed something but there didn't seem to be much point in going there again...

Jumpin' Jehosophats! (don't know if I've ever used that expression before) You're learning how to fly the airplane but not learning how to fly! Get your ticket then go out and learn how to fly. I chose my own solo cross country destinations and none were to airports I'd been to before. In...

+1 And she's always in a better mood after we land. (No, not because she survived another one of my landings - because she enjoys flying.)

The load factor is only a contributing factor. It makes the stall occur at a higher airspeed. But it won't spin if you are coordinated. The spin part only occurs when the pilot tries to force the plane around the turn by using more rudder without increasing the bank thus causing the inside wing...