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We’ve had a great flying adventure so far… let’s see if we can get home today. Welcome aboard! Wayne, GeezerGeek Pilot

Gary, thanks!!

I try to avoid pre-booking hotels for single overnights... and with a good dose of luck on this trip, it worked out. Thanks to you both, and I'm very pleased that you enjoy the videos. Wayne

Some challenging weather with a good deal of convection in the forecast. Will we make reasonable progress toward home… or divert short? First a plane ride for loved ones, and then we start our return to California. Welcome aboard! Wayne, GeezerGeek Pilot

Yesterday we made it halfway. As we awake to clear skies in Oklahoma, the question is: Can we reach our final destination of Charlotte NC today? Welcome aboard! Wayne, GeezerGeek Pilot

Thanks, John... lunch would have been cool. After visiting with my sister (87 yo) and her family and departing well before Ian, I'm now back home safe and sound in Santa Barbara. Ping me if/when you're out this way! Wayne

A family urgency has us departing in the morning for Charlotte NC. In this Part 1 of a 4-part series we do some initial planning with ForeFlight Trip Assistant, prepare tentative routes and flight plans, and fly the first day’s legs to Winslow AZ and Elk City OK. Welcome aboard! Wayne...

Agree 100%... "It's a tool, just like your gauges", and I'm super happy that I have ADS-B Out&In (plus TAS) as a supplement to my eyeballs. Oh, and my traffic displays are up at gauge level, not heads-down in my lap. Wayne

@asicer... on the Vision Jet, although we frequently have Vision Jets visiting KSBA, I don't believe we yet have any based here. The concern with "blinkies" is the inadvertent Direct-Enter-Enter when the blinking waypoint in the FPL isn't the intended active waypoint. I have seen this...

Let’s see if we get an opening in the marine layer today and make it into Catalina. Welcome aboard! Wayne, GeezerGeek Pilot

As @Lycosaurus says... plus if you already use ForeFlight, then when you're on the ground ForeFlight provides Internet traffic of all hits in the vicinity (via a feed from FlightAware) including the ability to view the traffic in 3D.

The system generates the "vertical" magenta needles (it's actually a chevron VDI on the PFD) by a real-time "drive and drive" calculation of a segment "glidepath" assuring that you reach the next waypoint at exactly the assigned altitude. There's a bit of a description in this video on Modern...

@luvflyin , no, the FPL includes all the stepdown waypoints and their corresponding altitudes. The pilot upon being cleared to the first waypoint (and cleared for the approach) simply activates VNAV (and dials ALTS to the FAF altitude)... and the FD/Autopilot then does ALL the stepdowns (there...

Correct me if I'm off here, but it seems these temperature-related problems can be (and prior to the chart updates, could have been) avoided with systems supporting VNAV (i.e. modern digital autopilots/flight directors): such that all the segments outside the leg leading to the FAF are flown...

Just a pilot; not an instructor... however, what makes the most sense to me is a sequence: start with #1 -- the classic dive-and-drive then add #2 -- the "stabilized approach" ... and if the IR student happens to ask, "What's this VNAV stuff about?" -- and you're flying with modern avionics...

Today we’re flying with Ken, fresh from his Discovery Flight and eager to start his journey to becoming a licensed pilot. Welcome aboard! Wayne, GeezerGeek Pilot

@asicer, good observation :)! For me, I actually miss most the lack of recline adjustment in my DA40... in cruise, I'd like to recline even further back ;) (newer DA40s and DA42s do have recline).

@kicktireslightfires, Wonderful job!! Agree 100% (approx 150 hours in a Skycatcher; most of that in the mountains)

Just a general recommendation wrt "going Direct to a FAF"... ATC should never instruct this, and if they do you should say "unable, request vector to intercept outside the FAF" (or request direct to a waypoint outside the FAF). As Mark notes, the Direct to FAF will work laterally as it would...

Throwing 3 paracords in your flight bag (as just-in-case tie-downs) is not a bad idea.