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Super easy. You can either file the TEC route as spelled out in the Chart Supplement and out the TEC route in the remarks, or you can ask at a towered airport for the to input one for you - that works anywhere besides SBD, for whatever reason. You will always use a TEC Route. TEC Routes are...

The CD frequency at MYF always works, but I don't remember a time when it wasn't just going to the ground controller's headset. They usually tell you to switch. The Soledad departure has been around a while, but you're right about quick releases. Even in IMC, because the pattern pounders...

It depends. Some airports just are more conducive to airborne clearances, while others you really want to get on the ground. Two things in that picture that nearly never get used, in real life: 1) That Clearance Delivery frequency and 2) that departure. No one asks for it, no one uses it...

In that case, buy my E33 Bonanza and do much better.

I understand this situation. I've even had this situation and, of course, assured my destination didn't require an alternate. That said, most of my flights are not in this sort of situation and I also prefer to make a fuel stop if I will not land with 60 minutes of fuel.

I'd imagine you can get that if you can climb high enough. Big MVA between the SFV and LHS.

It is very silly to have an ILS and an LPV with the same minimums and the LPV requiring higher alternate minimums. This would be excellent news. I guess the growing activation of LPV approaches outside the US and Canada is helping this. I file an alternate even with VMC predicted. It...

My experience in a Hershey Bar PA28 is definitely that airing on the side of higher speed was a good thing - and keeping power in until very close to the ground like a twin actually makes a huge difference in yoru landings. When I was flying a hershey bar Arrow, I found that it wouldn't mind...

I mean, who would want to work busy traffic for the low pay? A lot of the retireees who work contract towers want to work part time and the contractor is probably telling them they can't, due to staffing, so they just say forget it. Also, it isn't like SQL is in or near quite as nice an area...

SCT's MVA in that area is like 2100 or something, so 1300 was definitely a problem. His descent wasn't particularly gentle toward the end. I still don't get why he was so fixated on avoiding BUR's airspace. The airplane has radios and a transponder - use them.

Here in Southern California, IMC for the whole flight means it is probably raining. That may or may not involve bumps or drafts, but it is certainly a workout to hand fly without some kind of automation to back you up. I did it several times back when I was getting my instrument rating, though...

The tops the next day were around 2400, which is pretty normal. Those hills aren't particularly dark in that area, and the whole valley was lit up. He appeared to have flown South around the BUR Class C, which would have taken him directly toward the layer.

The advantage the autopilot would have given him here would be fessing up to his problem and getting an emergency approach into CMA, which would easily get him through the layer. That said, it would not have saved him in this situation where he was trying to scudrun in the Santa Monica...

I think it had an autopilot, but the autopilot was INOP. The airplane did not have synthetic vision, AFAIK. Still, the VFR chart will tell you all you need to know about that little slice of the world. Either way, the flight path and the ATC audio suggest to me that he was 1) trying to avoid...

In SCT or NCT airspace, good luck with direct anywhere, unless you're route is on the periphery of various airspace. Same with New York, Chicago, DFW, etc.

Doesn't sound fishy at all. I'm a lawyer and I've had courts mess up where they mailed things to, and that's when they have my address and name on pleadings and can double check with the State Bar. That they're allegedly mailing notices to an out of state resident at who knows what address when...

They don't have a manual wheel. No electric trim means a grounded airplane. They are not unflyable with runaway trim, in either direction, however. I doubt it. Access is easy enough to correct.

Driving is safer in Germany than the US, despite over 60% of highway kilometers having zero speed limit. They also have a lower BAC (.05 - most Germans stick with a single beer or glass of wine if they are driving, if that). For the OP - I'm not going to lecture you. I don't know you specific...

What I don't get is why you can use Bluetooth to directly transfer to a 375, but not a 650/750. I get that Garmin wants to sell overpriced cards, but come on.

If you decide to go the STEC route, I have a 30 with GPSS coming out of my Tiger later this year.