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Let's see... It's quicker, smoother, more precise... Not to mention, coordinated. But, hey - if none of that matters to you...

Sure. Now someone's told you it's not impossible.

Since you're responding to a student pilot, I feel the need to beg to differ or clarify. I think the only legitimate use of "rudder-only" is if a person is not proficient with making small adjustments in IMC and tends to overcorrect. For a person who is proficient and can make small adjustments...

When you use the term "non-WAAS", do you mean "non-approved"? Your query makes much more sense to me if that's what you mean. From what I'm hearing, it sounds like you are talking about an airplane with conventional nav, no DME, and an Aera unit. So it is a "\U" equipped airplane...

I'm not sure I'm following your scenario but it sounds like you were departing KHND and intended to arc around the west of KLAS using the VFR flyway, staying below the bravo, to KVGT and then proceed NW bound to KHTH. Did I get that right? I don't think it's technically correct to call this a...

I've also flown behind an FMS. And with Garmin boxes, including the G1000. An FMS is much more "sane" when it comes to engaging navigation to a final approach course. There is no distinct VTF selection. And, there's another crewmember to take care of it for you, assuming a part 121 operation...

Seems lots of people don't care, but maybe you do. As mentioned, AIM 5-1-8(d): Highlights... ...begin and end over appropriate arrival and departure transition fixes... ...minimum of one route description waypoint for each ARTCC... ...avoid prohibited and restricted airspace by 3NM...

No. "Dry" means unsaturated. Not 100% dry. So, your comment, "No moisture at all", is not correct. Plus, the 2degC average temp lapse rate is NOT, read NOT, the same as the adiabatic lapse rate. Not at all. Adiabatic was brought up by orca64...for what reason, I don't know since he say he uses...

hmmm.... The dry adiabatic lapse rate is actually 3 degC (5.4 degF) per 1000 feet of rise and the moist adiabatic lapse rate is slower, around 1-2 degC per 1000 feet in rise. Of course, this is talking about how air cools as it (the air parcel itself) rises, like being blown up a mountainside...

Well, your statement: "Wouldn’t it depend if your approach speed is ahead or behind the power curve?" is certainly confusing and I'm not sure whether I understand what you're trying to say even after your explanation. What does flying at speeds behind or ahead of the "power curve" have anything...

Sorry....I just have to ask.... BEHIND THE POWER CURVE!? It is obvious that you are talking about conducting an IFR operation such as shooting an ILS. Are you telling us that one of the methods you will be teaching your future students is ... configuring the airplane and power so that it will...

All those things existed 20 years ago. And pilots were trained in them.

First, it is not a relaxing of requirements per se. The requirement has long been "3 different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems". It has long been interpreted as, for example, an ILS with VOR, ADF or LOC. Or RNAV. Then someone wrote to the FAA recently for clarification and...

Yes, you can do that. There is no restriction as to how much you need to fly in between nor when to have review. It could be sooner than 24 months. Or much later.

This may sound harsh, but you are really barking up the wrong tree. One of the most important things looked for in a pilot is confidence and self-awareness (without being cocky). Someone who is comfortable with oneself. Someone who can be trusted. Someone people want to fly with. I don't know...

In my new-hire class, about 1/3 came from aviation universities, including my roommate (yes, they paired us up in housing unless we wanted to pay to get a room to ourselves - only one girl did that). Maybe one person attended a place like ATP. The rest of us were just plain, ordinary people. I...

Anyone see a legal reason why not?

As others have said...you need to provide more information...like the approach name and whether you experienced an outage. It could just be the specific approach only allows for LNAV/VNAV minimums in which case that's all you're going to get. If you're really asking why all the different rnav...

:D:) Holy smokes! I don't think I could stop laughing for quite a while! Thanks for this!

I admire your attitude regarding this whole episode. I know it seems you got dumped on by me and perhaps you did.:) I hope all is good. This is the point in a nutshell. In a training environment, you want it to be hard. For example, if you are training for a race, you don't want to cheat the...