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During my last flight, the tachometer started jumping wildly around the dial, then went to zero. No change in the engine sound, so possibly just a broken cable, but I put the plane down as soon as I could. I am trying to get it looked at by A&P asap, but currently I am not really sure what the...

I am going through my plane logbook, which includes older entries that are not mine. There are some entries which seem to indicate trips to airports (3-character identifiers), but which are not coming up in my search (AirNav, and a few others, eg the FAA lookup). I presume that these are...

This has been driving me a little batty today, since I cannot find clear explanations. In the attached screen cap from New York sectional, I am comparing 2 VORs: Hartford (HFD) and Norwich (ORW). Question 1: Both of them are indicated by their symbols as VOR-DME, yet the text in the Norwich...

Hi all: I am planning a trip east to west and will need to stop for the night somewhere in western Mississippi. I am crossing the Appalachians just to the north of Atlanta heading southwest to Texas, and so Jackson area is convenient to my planned route of flight. I am considering going into...