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I can't imagine the patience required to go through all of those comparator photos and trying to find this little dot eventually called Pluto. They gave us side by side pictures with arrows pointing to the little dot moving and I could still barely see it.

"planet" is winning nearly 3:1 vs "dwarf planet"

The nonprofit that runs the observatory has a genius way of tracking who supports which definition. You can see where my son voted.

So how do you feel about Ceres? I would agree though that the criteria of "clearning the neighborhood", is just far too ambiguous to use as definition for what is a planet vs. 'something else'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood

I was actually somewhat surprised at the neutral position our tour guide took. She was an astronomy student at NAU and basically said, "We don't care what everyone calls it as long as we keep getting funding to study it."

Just wanted to report back on this to everyone. I had an awesome day trip from KCHD to KFLG yesterday. I took my 9 year old son and we toured the Lowell Observatory. He loves anything science related and just ate the whole 90 minute tour up. Ride share options in Flagstaff are spotty, but we...

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Good point, that's always a good place to start isn't it? Per the 1978 172N POH (digital copy) that I have, it says to lean for takeoff to max RPM above 3k feet. That does seem like a good threshold to use. My home airport has a FE of 1243, but DA is just about always North of 3k. I looked...

When do you all lean the mixture? During my primary flight training (KCHD - FE 1243 - DA would regularly be 4k+), I was taught to always lean the engine for takeoff. The normal procedure was to lean for max EGT, then enrichen the mixture to get 50F below the peak. This was the procedure I...

Has anyone here flown into Flagstaff Arizona? KFLG? My 9 year old son is on fall break. I'm thinking of flying up to KFLG on Sunday and taking him to the Lowell Observatory. He loves all things science and has been asking me to take him flying. I've never been into KFLG. Any...

Just make sure you stay on the North side of the Grand River before you transit El Paso. ;)

I think it's just easier and more natural to hold your phone that way.

The ground tracks show that the Piper flew a short approach. He cut it much tighter than his previous landings. So I guess you're right, the helicopter and plane did turn base at basically the same point. But it does look like the Piper was flying the atypical pattern. We'll have to hear...

The helicopter would have been flying the "Charlie pattern". They line up for T&G's on taxiway Charlie. It has 400' lateral separation from 4R.

Airplane was a Piper. N number confirmed from the news. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N2868H I'm fairly certain this was the Helicopter. N412TL. The ground tracks converge at the same point, at the same time, at the same altitude, when the crash occurred...

I had just pre-flighted the plan when I turned on the handheld to check the ATIS. First thing I hear was, "Chandler airport is closed". Such a tragedy. Two dead.

@NordicDave, very sorry to hear about your friend. Condolences.

Can you expand on this a bit and explain? I do not have an IR, and I don't quite understand this.

At what point do you transition to Vy?

Wow, that was certainly quite the ordeal. Did you hear anything back from Homeland Security or anyone else about what happened???