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We flew to and stayed at Sky Ranch in Sedona and visited the canyon from there. Sedona plus the Grand Canyou is particularly nice.

We went to a local gun shop and got a set of Peltor ear protectors when our daughter was a baby. Six years later, she graduated to a Lightspeed headset. In a few months, she will probably solo with it.

Version 4.2.3 is out. All changes appear to be harmless and it fixes the "Groundhog Day" bug, in which it forgets you have an account and forces you to sign in again every day.

Climbs fast as hell as long as both engines are turning.

If he has more than 5 gallons of fuel, he no longer qualifies under Part 103. He looked to have in excess of that.

With the GDL-39, almost everything you can get on the ground is available in the air. Two major limitations -- 1) NEXRAD resolution is lower,particularly a distant sites and 2) METARS and other text products are often only available for 400 miles or so. It is also possible to receive XM...

I'm willing to give 4.2.2 the benefit of the doubt on the Groundhog Day (repeated requests to sign in) issue. It asked me to give my Junior Woodchuck Secret Code and Password right after installing the update, but I assume that updating that section wiped out that data. It did not prompt me to...

I miss the days before dereg when people dressed up to fly.

Your instructor should set wind limits for you. When it's windy hive him or her a call and go out and extend those limits.

Basically, you have to make the point that it helps the business. One example was last week, when I had to bring a bunch of equipment with me to Florida and back. That would have been possible, but more difficult, if flying commercially. If you have trips to make that are not served by airline...

I flew one in actual IFR in the San Francisco Bay Area some time ago. No autopilot, but quick control response and fun to hand fly. Also, no ILS, so a bit limited in approach conditions. Very nice for round trips between Oakland and Tahoe -- far better than driving. One big drawback is the...

My wife upgraded to 5.0.1 on her 2012 Nexus, and reports that it is still somewhat inferior to Kit Kat in terms of speed and stability. That's a huge improvement over 5.0. I talked to Garmin Tech last week about my experiments with finding a cure to the NEXRAD bug, and they mentioned that...

I think that for aviation applications, reliability is the key value and companies should stay a few years in back of the bleeding edge to get this. As for stone age phones, I don't have a smartphone. If I had one, I 'd hang on to it until it stopped working and then shop for as close as I could...

Looks like a fix for the NEXRAD problem. Its the GDL-39 firmware update 4.40 that hoses NEXRAD. If you remove and restore all the data for Garmin Pilot, NEXRAD display is restored once the GDL-39 is re-paired. I suspect that, unless GP has all its data erased, there may be a conflict between the...

I just finished a ten hour round trip flight to Florida and all is not well. First of all, the "Groundhog Day" issue, every day, it forgets that I signed in and validated my subscriptions and nags me to do it again. If I'm someplace with no wifi, like an airplane, it protests that it can't...

I flew with GP Android 4.2, and suspect that there is indeed a firmware problem. On my first flight of the day, the Nexus 7 and GDL-39 connected, but the GDL-39 failed to send any weather, traffic, or weather information to the Nexus. On the second flight, everything worked fine. I inspected the...

Alternate selection was not good. 23 nm gets one to ORF, with 200 foot ceilings and 2.5 miles, plus winds of 19 gusting 23 . An additional 37 nm gets one to RIC, with 700, 9 miles, and 13 knot winds. Both alternates were downwind of SFQ, so quick to get to. A 30 knot ground speed, as...

On the other hand, the medical also gives pilots motivation to work with their doctors to fix these conditions. It may enhance public health to some extent.

Five years with XM (first Anywhere Map and then Garmin Pilot with Baron Mobile Link). I switched because the Mobile Link was blowing fuses all the time and the sheer complexity of powering all those devices. I liked the pretty NEXRAD maps with XM, along with the ability to get distant METARS...

This matches my experience. I started reading general aviation magazines as a child in the 1950s and can recall being surprized at how prevalent themes like this were. Fortunately, my early years were shaped by a trove of 1930s and 1940s aviation books and magazine fragments in which it was the...