RussR

I feel your pain. Now that I have to get a first class medical every 6 months, it's easy to remember, by referring to online records...

The way he told me the story (and my memory of this could be extremely inaccurate, it's been several years, so please correct me if you...

Yes! Thank you, I can't believe I forgot that one. In my defense, while I was typing this my daughter was lobbying me to have pizza for...

This is one of those "fun" CFI scenarios that I might break out once in a while to see how well a student can bring together all the...

I'm not sure why anyone would replace any of those on anything other than "on condition". It's not like they are a safety-critical part...

A whole lot of working pilots. Not rare at all.

I met him at Sun N Fun several years ago, got to talk with him for a while. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy, big supporter of the...

30. (In the US)

Right. Or some other "fun" car that's completely impractical for daily use. So they're driven on the weekends, pretty much like most kit...

I doubt this was a real clearance (especially since FIXIT is not an approach fix), but your point about ATC-delayed descent is taken...

It's a bit easier to spot on an IFR chart by looking for the brown blob.

Look at the Big Bend area of Texas, say, West of 6R6. There's 14500 Class G down there. There's another block in Western NM. Maybe a...

I'm not refuting anything you say, but I will point out that the SFO GLS approaches were just published about 4 years ago.

I’ve seen that one. It’s doable but tends to be noisy. And inefficient. The one place I have seen the technique work is in the traffic...

There are GLS approaches at only 3 airports in the U.S. - EWR, IAH, and SFO. The minimums for these approaches, as of right now, are...