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Any chance this can be video-recorded and posted on the net so pilots who live far from Chicago can see it? It sounds as though this will be a valuable presentation.

No, I don't have any specific concern or question. I'm studying for the written test using the King School "Instrument Rating Ground School & Test Prep Course." It's interesting and quite good, I think; but -- based on the lesson titles -- it doesn't appear to have anything in it about risk...

Congratulations and thanks for the excellent wrote-up. A question about the written: Did the written include questions about risk management?

Yes. The ACS replaces the PTS.

Thanks for the "heads up" about this. I'd never seen this site before, and it looks like a valuable place to spend some time.

If the bill referred to on AOPA Live passes at all, it will pass by July 15th, because that's the date the current FAA authorization expires and it's the date that Congress will recess for the summer. If that bill doesn't pass, there are two other bills passed by the Senate and pending in the...

The reason there's disagreement in this thread is that the arguments are like ships (planes?) passing in the night and not addressing one another. In other words, both sides are right. Here's why: The FARs require a plane to be equipped in a specified way in order for the plane to be flown...

Anyone know what the current status is of the website seeandavoid.org? It used to display the boundaries of Restricted airspace and MOAs, along with information about whether they were Active or not. The website is still up, but it no longer displays R or MOA boundaries, or information about...

I'd love to have one for the Los Angeles area -- even a separate "page" for each airport in L.A. I went to a FAAST lecture last week that featured a KVNY tower controller. He told us what he and his colleagues would like pilots to do and what they would like us not to do. It all made perfect...

I have a question about VFR departure procedures from Camarillo's (KCMA) Runway 26. I have flown into Camarillo many times, always from the east, and I've always departed to the east. Now I'd like to depart to the west (from Runway 26). Oxnard (KOXR) is immediately west of Camarillo, and I'm...

Bruce Breslau. He's exactly who you're looking for. I just sent you his contact info by PM.

Is there much glare on a Garmin 695 screen that's installed in the panel of a low wing plane with a clear canopy?

I like the LASFRA (on weekday mornings when few other planes are using it). I then get clearance from KSMO to drop down to 2000' for a "foothill transition" to the east. The views of the Hollywood sign, the Griffith Park Observatory, Dodger Stadium and downtown LA never fail to impress my...

Did the Instrument Flying Handbook and Instrument Procedures Handbook cover everything you needed to know to pass the written, or did you read other things as well?

It looks to me as though we're discussing two different situations: 1. Approach clears a pilot through Class C or D airspace without telling the pilot to contact the Tower. 2. Approach tells the pilot to contact the Tower. The original question -- and the one that comes up frequently in the...

Yes. And if approach decides contact with the tower is necessary -- and tells the pilot to do it -- doesn't that mean the pilot must get clearance from the tower before entering the tower's airspace?

I don't understand either. Doesn't the Burbank tower "own" the Burbank airspace? If so, when FF tells a pilot to contact the tower, doesn't the pilot have to make contact with the tower before entering the tower's airspace? This sort of thing happens all the time in the area around Burbank...

No offense was intended. I asked, because you ended your original post by saying ". . . but I guess they don't care about the latter part" -- i.e., the Slant Golf part. But when you're flying IFR, they do care about the Slant Golf part. I'm just trying to determine whether ATC cares about the...

Do you add "Slant Golf" because your Navion's equipment is certified for IFR flight, or even though it isn't? Also, if ATC asks me for my equipment code, even though I'm requesting Flight Following for a purely VFR flight, should I respond by saying /U rather than /G? The plane I fly has a...

When asking for FF on a VFR flight, is it necessary (or advisable) to provide ATC with an equipment code? I fly VFR only in a plane that has a not-certified-for-IFR (but quite good) panel-mounted GPS, and I have always thought that made the equipment a /G -- and that's what I've told ATC when...