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  1. chucky

    SFO is gettinga new tower

    From the Chronicle I rather like it. Now I just need to try to swing a tour of the old one before it closes.
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    N747NA - pictures of a unique 747

    NASA's SOFIA observatory, a modified 747SP (ex United, Pan Am), is visiting Ames this week, and I got to take a little tour of the aircraft yesterday. It's not often my career and my hobby come together like this, so I'm really geeking out over this. I figured I'd post some pictures here...
  3. chucky

    The clouds aren't safe any more

    I'm allowed to fly in them, all by myself, as of yesterday morning. The oral went very well. The first part of the flight portion also went very well - departure, vectors, climbs and descents, tracking a VOR inbound and outbound, course reversal, unusual attitudes. Then the DME arc I started...
  4. chucky

    Color photos from around D-Day

    If this has been linked here, I missed it, but I think some folks here might find these photographs interesting (especially since there's a Thunderbolt and a Lightning in there). Life has some color photographs taken around the time of the D-Day landings, both in England and in France. I didn't...
  5. chucky

    Long instrument cross-country clarification

    I'm getting ready to take a flight to satisfy the requirement for a long cross country, from 61.65(d)(ii): My question is about the distance requirement from part (A) - is this the point-to-point distance between the airports for the flight, or is this the distance actually flown along the...
  6. chucky

    renting in Palo Alto

    I'm going to be spending a few weeks in Palo Alto next month, and I'd like to take some time to fly. I've scouted out KPAO, and the last time I was up there I visited the Sundance Flying Club, which did seem to meet my needs rather well, but I'm wondering if people have thoughts on other...
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    for the astronomy nerds here (NA)

    I really loved today's xkcd. It's really a shame how seldom stellar evolution is worked in to jokes.
  8. chucky

    considerations for animal transport

    I may have the opportunity to do some animal transports in the not too distant future, and seeing as how I much prefer flying to driving - and that I'm willing to do much longer legs in the plane than in a car - I was thinking about doing them by plane. Since I know a number of people on this...
  9. chucky

    Aircraft re-registration in the media

    A story on NPR about re-registration. I think they do a reasonably good job laying out why the FAA thinks this is necessary, and why most aircraft owners don't.
  10. chucky

    N90 is awesome

    Just got back from my first real instrument lesson in a little while. I've put in some time with safety pilots and a few short trips in actual IMC (before the weather turned cold and bumpy) but it's been a while since I've been under the hood with an instructor. Today I knocked off the last...
  11. chucky

    handheld GPS mount

    I've got a little Garmin G96C for use in the cockpit. I don't really use it much, though, since I don't usually need it and it's a bit of a pain to keep in my lap. I mainly have it for backup - particularly now that I'm flying actual IFR, I want something to show me where I am and help me get...
  12. chucky

    I really like flying

    Up near Poughkeepsie... First non-training flight in a little while - just wanted to go see the fall colors. For the first time, the total in my PIC column is greater than my Dual Received column. Also, I took up a passenger who's only prior experience with GA was a family friend who...
  13. chucky

    actual

    So I got my real instrument flight in this morning: New Haven (HVN) to Barnes (BAF) and back. It was forecast to be an ideal 'first dip' sort of day, marginal VFR improving as the morning wore on. Low enough ceilings to need an approach for the let-down from the enroute portion, not so low as...
  14. chucky

    controlling obstacles in IAPs

    I've got a question about controlling obstacles and instrument approach procedures. The airport I'm doing my instrument training at, New Haven (KHVN) is served by one ILS approach - the ILS-02. The Cat-A straight-in minimums are 297/50. The TDZE is 6, so that's basically a DA of 300ft, and...
  15. chucky

    wait, what?

    I have nothing intelligent to say about this story. It made me laugh, though.
  16. chucky

    VOR error question

    Is there anything that could cause to independent VORs on the same plane (I assume same antenna) to have the same error - in the specific case I'm thinking about 10 degrees? That is to say, they both read about 10 degrees off from what the GPS reads out. This came up recently, and I'm rather...
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