I took the guy who taught me to fly fixed-wing for a round robin of legs in the R44.
Brandywine to Butter Valley (for lunch), ok.
Butter Valley to McGinness ok.
On the ground at McGinness, I try to get the 430 to accept 0P2 for Shoestring airport (near VINNY intersection). It didn't know 0P2 from beans. OK, so it knows Vinny, we can fly there and resume navigation.
But first, we have a 496 in the ship which I really don't know how to use yet. So we two superpilots play with the 496 and finally successfully input 0P2. Guess what? The 496 knows all about 0P2!
Now it just puzzles the hell out of me that a high-end panel GPS doesn't have the airport in its database, and the portable one does.
We did have a great flight, though, which included a pass between two ridges where the Appalachian runs just north of Hamburg, PA (and an overflight of Cabalas as well).
Brandywine to Butter Valley (for lunch), ok.
Butter Valley to McGinness ok.
On the ground at McGinness, I try to get the 430 to accept 0P2 for Shoestring airport (near VINNY intersection). It didn't know 0P2 from beans. OK, so it knows Vinny, we can fly there and resume navigation.
But first, we have a 496 in the ship which I really don't know how to use yet. So we two superpilots play with the 496 and finally successfully input 0P2. Guess what? The 496 knows all about 0P2!
Now it just puzzles the hell out of me that a high-end panel GPS doesn't have the airport in its database, and the portable one does.
We did have a great flight, though, which included a pass between two ridges where the Appalachian runs just north of Hamburg, PA (and an overflight of Cabalas as well).