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For towered airports they put the preferred name above the frequency on the approach plates. For uncontrolled fields I’ve always listened or taken my best guess. You’ll hear a couple different names used for the same airport at least some of the time.

My IFR instructor had me do one at the local ANG base. The controller learned that day that a little guy like me needs a lot more wind correction than a C130.

“File what you want, fly what you get, log what you need.”

ForeFlight uses the recording for timing. You can manually start and stop the recording. It’s the REC button on the side of the map screen.

My experience is that ForeFlight will keep recording for a little bit after I shut down. If I’m quick enough packing up I’ve even had it record my drive home as part of the flight. In planes with a Hobbs meter I always edit to use the Hobbs time. In the plane I fly without one, I generally use...

Being from the north, my access to good barbecue is limited. I ended up in Raleigh for work and asked the folks there to find me some authentic NC barbecue. They took me to a place called Ole Time Barbecue and it was some of the best I’ve ever had. Have you heard of it? Is it good or am I just...

You missed YNG in Ohio.

Yep. Cheap, fast or easy, pick any one. When I had a home web server for some of my hobby stuff I installed Linux on an old desktop, but half of its purpose was to teach me Linux so I didn’t mind spending a bunch of time on it and it wasn’t professional. In a previous life I deployed a few...

What are you looking for advice on besides either standing up a new Server 2019 box or trying to migrate your SBS to 2019? It sounds like you’ve already got a setup you like and don’t want to reinvent the wheel here.

No idea. I’d probably be saying no to that one, too.

It really depends on the app. When I look at my apps that ask for that permission, many of them are video apps that want to be able to stream to my AppleTV. My printer’s app needs to be able to talk to my printer. Other apps I feel don’t need it, so I turned it off and haven’t had any problems...

Yep, Apple added that permission with a relatively recent update. Before that, apps could do that without asking. Sometimes that permission is warranted. ForeFlight asks for it so that it can connect to Stratus or other devices. So you do need to be a little bit careful, but if you say no and...

I had a similar experience my first few times after I got the rating. What helped me was spending a decent amount of time in layers high above the ground. I was nervous because I didn’t have an instructor next to me double checking my altitude or attitude. A couple hours in clouds high enough...

“We need real models with our models.”

I know I’ve brought this up before, but BKL in Cleveland has two approaches: an ILS and an RNAV to 24R. The RNAV is NOTAMed NA for the next two years. I wish I knew why. They raised the circling minimums on the ILS, so something must have become an obstacle, but I don’t see why they wouldn’t...

When I did my training my 3rd class medical was my student pilot certificate. I walked out of the AME’s office with it. Did something change to make that harder?

Most space flights are unmanned, so I would assume it’s a permit for a flight.

It seems that there is some condition that would allow an ILS approach to an airport but not allow an RNAV approach. The RNAV (GPS) 24R into Burke Lakefront (BKL) is NOTAMed unavailable, but the ILS 24R is available. If you don’t have an ILS, you can’t shoot an approach to that airport.

I definitely grabbed courtesy cars, even from fancier FBOs, before I was 21. That was... more than a decade ago.