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Yes! My mechanic is based at the Santa Paula airport down in Southern California. So I fly down there at least once a year. The flight school there seems to think that proper radio procedure is to say something like "Blue and White Cesana over the " local landmark that out of towners are...

Well, it tells someone who's also 10 miles to the South that someone else is in the vicinity and heading towards the same place and that it might be a really good idea to be extra aware. Saying how many minutes out doesn't help there. A couple of weeks ago, I flew from San Jose to...

Sure it was a honeybee? If not, unfortunately, you don't even get the satisfaction of this. Yellowjackets, wasps, bumblebees, hornets, etc. don't have barbs on their stingers, so they can sting multiple times. Honeybees? In high school I worked outside multiple times and had them crawling...

Thought for sure this was photoshopped. Seems like a real thing:

Nope. Thursday night landed on 8R. Departed Friday morning (That's when I took the pic of the Super Guppy) also on 8R. El Paso is a neat little airport. Seems fairly GA friendly. I'm guessing you're based there? From Airnav, looks like a lot more GA planes based there than my...

By any chance were you trying to intercept the glideslope from above?

Wasn't there an RAAF F-111C that had to make a gear up landing because one of the wheels had fallen off? Wonder if this is a picture of that one just before touch down. [edit] Yep, looks like the one. Same tail numbers. Story here: http://www.pigzbum.com/crewroom/movie.html

Yeah, that is abundantly clear. Still wish there were a way to filter out the dreck in the briefings. Do I really need to know that airport A's taxiway lights are OOS when I'm planning a day flight to airport B 50 miles in the opposite direction? Sure, have that info available in case I...

Ohhh really???? I don't think so! May have to report this![emoji23]

Thanks. I got a response from Garmin within about 20 minutes of my sending the email. I don't believe in revealing the contents of someone else's email so I'll just paraphrase here and say that they acknowledged getting a lot of feedback from users on the new format and that they plan to make...

That's certainly better than the GP version. Still, (and I realize this isn't a GP issue at all) there's a lot of junk in the NOTAM section, isn't there. And the whole thunderstorms in the Florida panhandle and Great Lakes region still irks me. Seems like the briefing and NOTAM system could...

Yeah, I had looked for that. I couldn't find anything...

My email to Garmin gpfeedback@garmin.com. Will be interesting to see what they say. Hello, I want to give you feedback on the new briefing format in Garmin Pilot 10.4.0. Let me begin with a definition of "brief". noun - a concise statement or summary adjective - of short duration...

We always have our life jackets on when making the transit over to Catalina. Seems like good risk management to me. The ones that have a CO2 cylinder to inflate are compact and fairly comfortable.

Oh, and for the same flight as you showed, from KMIA to KRDU, the new briefing is 121 pages! And these briefings seem to take a lot longer to load.

You're showing the old (and,in my opinion, better) briefing. The new briefing in version 10.4.0 is a continuous thing without collapsable sections. As a test, I got a briefing for a flight from KSJC to KRHV, a flight of only 5.5nm. The briefing is 66 pages long! Kinda violates the name...

That is truely awful. 100+ pages, and the METARS are all in the translated format. Much more difficult to scan. Completely agree that there needs to be a way to get backthe old format.

Licorice jelly beans? To me, the only thing worse (jelly bean wise) are the coffee flavored ones. Can not stand those! Yuck. Of course I have had only one cup of coffee in my 54 years. Awful, nasty, vile stuff! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Overnighted at El Paso on a 2 day trip from Tennessee back home to California. I've read about the Super Guppy, but I've never seen it before. Turns out it's based at El Paso. What an amazing looking plane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Definitely the tone is set by the person writing the discussion. Some are chatty and informative and seem to be written with the assumption that the reader is not a meterologist. Some, on the other hand, are filled with jargon. Both types are useful to get a general idea of what's out there...