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I'm not worried about that. :) Nobody will ever use ADFs again since GPS is dominant, but I always thought that NDB approaches were a...

What I'm trying to say is that the goal of a NDB approach is to fly a direct line from point A to point B, and that line is a radial...

I think we're saying the same thing. Wherever the NDB is you try to fly on a radial to or from that station. The bearing relative to...

I'd suggest that an NDB has radials as well. You just have to do more work to find which one you're on. ;)

In some cases that may be true, but in most cases it's the reader not reading it clearly.

That's it. People will often cite the regulation in the notes, which I think can be helpful when an examiner is reviewing the logs...

You are reading things into the regulation that aren't there. Nowhere does it say that you must cite the regulation in your log entry...

Flying Ron said that happened years ago. Am I mistaken in believing that a few years ago they did away with the query about being rated...

. . . sprinkled with a large dash of wishful thinking - not a particularly good recipe for making a commercial pilot.

I think if it was trolling it wouldn’t be so disorganized. I’d probably go with willful ignorance.

"They" don't need to check if there was a passenger. They only need documentation that it was solo, and solo doesn't mean the only...

I think when you look at cases of inadvertent VFR into IMC where an emergency was declared there are very few violations processed as a...

My wife learning to land my Cub, flying with my original flight instructor from 50 years ago. .

Worse yet, they have to be done perpendicular to your course or you won't get to your destination.

Just to be clear, none of those items require annual inspections under the authorization of a federal agency. If you own a $100,000...