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I don't. Educated people tend to think they know as much about everything as they do about their field of specialty. Many educated people have a hard time realistically assessing what they don't know. As we get older (I'm 44) we are willing to take fewer risks because the cost of failure...

Check this out. https://www.aeromedix.com/aeromedix_articles/pulseox/respirat.html Mike Busch article on oxygen. Pretty interesting stuff on Cheyne-Stokes breathing which I hadn't heard of. Could explain your at-rest saturation fluctuations.

That's pretty much what you had to do up until this announcement if you wanted "the goodies" displayed on your MFD. My own solution, now canceled, involved a 1090ES xpdr and a GDL-88 with the "out" disabled. It costs way more that way unless you already have a GDL-88 then it's just a...

This goes through my mind a lot. No non-suicidal pilot takes off thinking he's going to die that day. So I ask myself what's my safety margin, what's my way out, at what point do I make the decision to abort my current plan and make a change? How do I avoid being "that guy".

Interested. This is a great question. I have often wondered how banner towing works in detail.

Yeah the GA community hated the ADS-B mandate then as now. So as a sop to GA, the FAA decided to offer us some goodies - like radar and traffic and weather (FIS-B and TIS-B ) They couldn't do that all over the 1090 band so they created 978 UAT just for us. Why it cannot be used above FL180 I...

Yes. 1090 is the transponder frequency for Mode C and Mode S. 1090 ES just takes the data transmitted by Mode S and adds some extra data on it. That's the "extended squitter" or "extra stuff". It's good anywhere in the US. 978 UAT is not a transponder frequency exactly. It's only for ADS-B and...

I've heard that too but I don't know for sure.

LOL yeah I started the bus way nose high and it got to maybe 60 or 70 deg of bank and stopped rolling. So we tried alternate law. Nope. Then the IP disabled the - I forget the acronym - flight computer but still it reached only 110 deg of bank and stopped rolling. On the knife edge like that...

I don't. I live in a dry climate. Condensation in the tanks has not ever happened to me here. When I lived in central Texas it didn't really happen either. The only water I ever saw in the tanks came after sustained rainfall. So I moved that airplane first under a cover and later into a hangar...

To get 1090 ES you basically need a new transponder. So cost gets involved. Many pilots, especially those without fancy-pants MFDs, don't want to go there. They'd rather keep their Mode C transponder and just add 978 UAT ADS-B out. The GDL-88 is certainly NOT the cheapest way to do that. You...

Makes perfect sense. You understand the risks and externalities of an airplane better than those of a motorcycle. And you understand how to mitigate them for aircraft more than for a motorcycle. A motorcycle rider, obviously, might feel pretty unsafe in a small airplane because s/he knows...

For those of you still using paper maps, it might be nice if a "TFR" that is planned to be in place for an entire map cycle could be, you know, depicted on the map the way they are on my iPad. Talk to the FAA... lol But we don't need more permanently walled-off airspace. Aside from...

For my preflight decision making, the answer is yes. It is known to me that ice only forms below freezing in visible moisture. So for my own purposes, that's really all I need to know. And I avoid those conditions in my own flying. All the rest is a legal argument that I don't care to get into.

This old can of worms. This GA vs Motorcycle thing has been hashed over and over in dozens of threads. You can toss out unrepresentative accidents on both sides. As far as I can tell, the author of that post didn't account for different varieties of airplane crashes either. It would be...

That would be nice for GNS 430/530 users for sure. But GTNs are so easy that 2-way flight plan is not really needed. I do all the entry on the GTN having that copy to FF is a bonus.

Yep. Among other things, I (we - the instructor pilot too) learned you can't do an aileron roll in an A320 even with the flight computer disabled. Is that a specific sim limitation? dunno. We also did several more serious maneuvers. Total blast.

There is one like that at Ski Apache called Capitan. At the end of the day it is in shadow, snow scraped away, an absolute ice rink. Now I have a left shoulder that refuses to remain in its socket. Skiing. :thumbsup:

Angel Fire was my first skiing - and my first glimpse of real mountains coming as I do from OK and TX. I had forgotten the names of the runs but I remember Heading Home. I probably skied Bodacious too. I think I recall a black run called Sluice Box or Sluice Gate or something - we didn't...

Contacting a control tower with a handheld would be sketchy in some places. Those handhelds are weak even ON the field. Go 5 miles away on the ground and I bet it's garbage. :dunno: