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My 18 y.o. son is learning to fly. This is good! His instructor is teaching him to make all landings with 20 degrees of flaps. I'm a 40 degree/ full stall kind of guy. This drives me nuts. I'm staying appropriately quiet, but eventually he'll get his ticket, and I'm gonna be making the...

I'm with Tony. Two hands raising implies anxiety. In studying body language, this is commonly noted movement. My favorite (extreme) example is when you watch a baby. As they get scared, their elbows raise up. (Like reaching form Mom?) Whenever I see this, I imagine a scared little chimp...

Yeah, me too. I don't go if the VOR (my equipment limit) doesn't have the legal ability to do the trip. But, that being said, this thread started on the notion that I really appreciated ATC realizing that I did most of my flying based on what I see on the handheld GPS's - and that that was...

Ghery, I'm sorry I wasn't clear. I meant for those of us using handhelds... They're full of batteries! No circuit breakers! (Ignoring the potential of dead batteries at critical times....) My guess on the odds of all that "redundancy" going offline and it causing an accident was based on...

In these days of redundancy, having extra radio's and gps's (even when non-certified), I don't think I've EVER heard of that situation occuring! Has anyone? What're the odds.... infinitesimally(sp?) small?

Living near Crawford... I am HOPING that things like P-49 will go away... Time will tell. There isn't anything over Johnson's ranch - even though LadyBird is all that's left alive. So I'm thinkin' it'll go away.

Dave, don't you ever sleep? Just watching out for you, Buddy! (I'm at work...)

Sounds great! Any particular times? What can we bring? Coke's? Chips? Handguns and Hard Liquor?

I fly more based on where I work on any given day... I gotta start choosing the farther places!

Oooh, Ed! Good data! Nice treatise on the well supported facts, here. I appreciate it. If I'm understanding you correctly, as long as it's direct to (or from) a VOR, and you're within signal range (and have it ID'd), then direct navigation, even off airway, is legal? I ask because...

Ahem... This is why whenever I talk on the radio, I always do it in falsetto that sounds like Marvin the Martian doing PeeWee Herman...:eek: :goofy:

Hmmmm... Nah... The more I think about it, I guess I do need to put in the VOR's and airways in the box for route on the flight plan. (Since I am /U.) Still like Dave's sentence with the clearing controller. Hey Kenny! But I LIKE mustard and mayonnaise on my burger..!

Lance, I believe you are right on the remarks notes not being seen. It only leaves that it's 'off airway navigation' as a technical glitch for the regs - but that's what I suppose people argue about all the time. I've done it as you imply most often, as a matter of fact. But I really like...

Now see, I just needed to hear from all ya'll smarter and more experienced guys how best to work the system...;) But I don't want to come off as that guy who's always looking for a way to skirt the law; quite the contrary. I am, however, a great admirer of efficient use of a system that I...

One thing about it, if you can afford the plane, you can afford to give rides! But then again, the group of people that can afford jets don't usually go for hanging out at a grass strip, enjoying the company of people who admire low-and-slow as much as need-for-speed livin'!! Oh, well, I'll...

That's gonna be my quote of the day! Thanks, Bruce! Kent: You're right. Thanks for the suggestion on a great and legal way to handle it. I think I've done it every way (including this one) imaginable. Was never completely convinced which way was the most/best technically legal. Appreciate the...

Comprendo. Thanks.

Really, I guess I say it's a lot like Radiation Poisoning. You can't see it, feel it, or touch it, but it and it's long term effects definitely exist! AND it has a half-life that will seem to last forever! "I'm embracing the reality!" (or something like that) - Steve Buscemmi(sp?) in...

I say: "My this is some WONDERFUL banana pudding; if you'll excuse me, I must go get some more!"

Filed direct, expecting vectors. I also file direct, knowing that whenever I'm in complicated airspace, they give me the routes THEY want. I've found no utility in trying to predict route assignations. Even when I look up the commonly used routes, it has never held. So I'm always 'ready to...