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This IS the “aviation mishaps” board...seems like he posted it in the right place to me...

How many of us are driving cars from the 70s? I don’t get an annual on my car, I drive it until something breaks not worth fixing, or there is enough wear and tear that I don’t want to deal with and I buy a new car. I’d get into someone’s beater because if something broke, we’d pull over and...

This is why ILS critical areas exist

Came here to post that FedEx already did this ;)

I had just landed the other day at home base and clearing the runway, the 310 waiting for me announced he was taking the runway and departing. Meanwhile, someone who had not been talking on the radio was on a very tight base leg (and would have not been visible by the 310). Someone else called...

https://journaltimes.com/news/local/pilot-reportedly-seriously-injured-in-burlington-plane-crash/article_0cc3d043-cf0c-5a5e-b635-1a5f918f4c6c.html#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Flightaware shows a P210 arriving at about the right time, but that is just a guess. No...

Maybe, but then I’d be in a slightly nicer nursing home wishing that I had owned that Arrow I was looking at 50 years earlier...

I’ve been around long enough to work ARTS IIE (at GRB), CARTS, and STARS. We started using fusion before we got STARS, and the biggest issue that I had was that my perception of how fast a target was moving got thrown way off because before fusion, a fast airplane’s target would make a big...

Those of us that buy airplanes as toys vs. a business tool realize that we aren’t buying them as financial investments (mostly). If financing my airplane for $500 per month allows me to own it now and have the cash left over to maintain and buy gas for it, then so what? I realize some people...

Totally agree, and want to take your point one step further. The notion that ADS-B might mean we can run tighter spacing and increase airport capacity isn’t going to happen...we can already run 2.5 miles to a lot of runways, and less than that means there won’t be the required runway...

Fusion is taking all of the radar sites and ADS-B and averaging them out into 1-second updates. The radar is calculating the ground speed based on that. It isn’t instantaneous though...your groundspeed readout lags several seconds behind groundspeed changes as the STARS computer figures it out.

Just last week I cleared a Cirrus over GYY through the Bravo at 8500 direct to BUU. I thought it would be all over POA by now :cool::D

I reach out sometimes “hey 35G where are you now on that approach?” It might be because I am an ATC, but hearing a callsign and position helps me visualize where an aircraft is, and I can communicate directly with them. If someone asks “where is the Arrow at?” I have to wonder if they are...

My facility is on Fusion, which takes the data from multiple radar sites and ADS-B and figures out your position with 1 second updates. I believe most ATC facilities are like this now. I have never seen an ADS-B target that wasn’t correlated with a radar target. I could see this being...

“approach and tower were easy to deal with” Surely you can’t be talking about the Chicago Approach who never lets anyone into the Bravo :D:D

IDAHO is law enforcement and shouldn’t be broadcasting via ADS-B.

Lack of fuel notwithstanding...a good reminder for a mental “if the engine quits below xxx agl, land straight ahead” briefing. Crashes are much more survivable if they are flown into vs stalling a couple hundred feet in the air.

You can do the 13-month annual, sure. It isn’t uncommon when you have a fall annual to do a few 13-month annuals to get it pushed back into the winter months, then keep it there. My Arrow went in for annual last March and didn’t come out until August (surprise engine overhaul). So I am good...

Did this happen just once, or every time? If this just happened for the first time, I am wondering if your alternator wasn’t charging your battery during the flight.

I am terminal, not at a center, so I can’t speak for them. But, we have an option on our scopes to turn on ADS-B. We don’t really need it for anything, so most controllers don’t have it on, but I do just because I can. If you are on a discrete code, your target doesn’t show anything different...