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A follow-up... I’m using an iCom A25, I’m 1.6 miles from from LaGuardia and purchased an MFJ1717 antenna. My purpose is to listen to LGA ATC/Pilot exchanges to improve my communication ability, and while I’ll listen to the radio, LiveATC puts me to sleep. The bottom line is that I was getting...

Your second example is really common in the New York area. As you say, it gives more precise temperature and dew point information. For me, the question is whether, how and to whom (I’m assuming airliners) the more precise data is useful. The mystery for me is the point of SLP, included in the...

According to the press releases, the aviation side appears to have gone with Yaesu.

Okeydoke. Donald Trump couldn't have said it better.

Can’t do. I live half the year in New York, part of it in Paris, and the rest on a salmon river in Newfoundland, where I not only hear accordion and violin folk music but respect it. And your point is?

Your neighbour to the north, the one that actually entered the war immediately instead of pretending that it wasn’t happening.

My country entered the war in 1939. Yours?

Well it’s certainly a pity that you don’t seem to know that expressions like “steam gauges” and “glass cockpit” make no sense outside Garmin marketing material. And it’s also a pity that you have apparently decided that anyone who doesn’t use the expression “airspeed alive” is wet behind the...

Some radical ideas: What’s wrong with the plain English “airspeed working” or “airspeed good” or “speed gauges good”? I’m sorry, but people outside the US do manage to fly airplanes without the idiotic expression “airspeed alive”. There’s a highly competent German commercial pilot on YouTube...

There’s this concept called irony. That aside, the word “paroxysm” in the phrase “he fell into a paroxysm of laughter” has become so common that it should be understood by anybody at roughly junior high school reading level.

I need a CFI to learn how to fly a plane. I don’t need a CFI to teach me how to speak in plain English. I especially don’t need to learn how to speak in plain English from people steeped in jargon. Interesting that that proposition has apparently hit a nerve.

It’s news to me that one is supposed to be so enthralled with flying that one is supposed to leave one’s views on plain language behind, although that is clearly what happens to people who jump on the jargon. I think you’ll find that people outside the U.S. are able to express the concept...

You’d lose the bet. And this is not the only jargon phrase that grates on me. I also refuse to say “airspeed alive”, which sounds like a line from a 1950s grade B movie :) We all have our pet peeves, and pilot jargon is one of mine. As a student pilot, I would already love to see a moratorium...

The Bluetooth is great for pre-flight and transferring data between the radio and the iOS/Android app. In flight, options would appear to be limited. I need to confirm this, but my understanding is that the main headsets with Bluetooth can receive via Bluetooth but may not transmit. If that’s...

If you read my second sentence, you’ll see that I said that the iPhone is a GPS source.

I want my GPS position in the event of a forced landing. My iPhone is one source, but I like having it on the radio. I also like the Bluetooth functionality that comes with the new Icom radio, nav version.

My understanding is that Motorola and Yaesu parted ways in 2012.

This is the elephant in the room that none of you want to address. Did they get on board knowing the risk? The risk that you acknowledge existed and that exceeded what you would tolerate? Or were they not entitled to know the risk? Because the fact is, four ordinary, reasonably intelligent...

Just want to suggest that people think twice about ordering directly from MFJ. Sounds attractive, if only to benefit the maker, but six days after ordering they sent me an e-mail saying that the antenna is "backordered" and that I should expect a wait of up to four weeks. This morning, I told...

You're dating yourself :)