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IME, it isn't that CAP does not play well with outside entities, but rather that they don't play at all with outside entities. YMMV, but this comment is based on flying volunteer SAR pilot/aircraft in California for a local sherrif's department and always dreading CAP's eventual arrival--we...

I hate to be the last one to figure out something, but after scanning through several of the threads & posts, I'm not clear when this thing happens. Labor Day weekend, right? I'd hate to show up on the wrong weekend.

Well, that gets somewhat philosophical. Do you (or I) subscribe to the "get it on the ground at the first appropriate airport, ATC will thank you later" theory, or do you (or I) subscribe to the "by the book, adhere to 91.185" theory? If the later, you navigate direct from the point of failure...

91.205(d)(2) makes the "plain direct" clearly illegal from the start. The "vector to a distant point, direct when able..." is two operations, a vector + navigation in compliance with 91.205(d)(2). Clearly the second half is legal. Unless someone can point to a limitation on vector distances in...

Direct, own nav, to a VOR, is legal, off airway or on. The FAA's "Instrument Flying Handbook" talks about this technique as being the grandfather of direct navigation. Direct via vectors to a VOR, direct when able (meaning within the service volume) is legal from anywhere you can negotiate the...

The realities of this topic: 1. Accepting a clearance to navigate (own nav) direct to any where to which you can not navigate via installed, IFR approved equipment is illegal (violation of 91.205(d)(2). 2. Yes, as the controller in the OP noted, many pilots use a handheld to violate #1...

It depends on the house construction. I have 802.11g in a 3-story Victorian with 1" thick internal plaster walls. The wireless signal punches through drywall and 2x4 wood just fine, but it doesn't do well through concrete, brick, and stone. I have to keep the router near the center of the house...

A DA-40 has the most harmonious configuration of flight controls I've ever experienced--it felt like playing a keyboard. Seat pan to canopy clearance isn't the greatest for tall people--I'm 6'5" and it wasn't pleasant even for something as brief as three pattern circuits.

At various points in my past I tossed skydivers for Chambersburg, PA and Smith Mountain Lake, VA/Swan Creek, NC. Folks at the later operation once offered me a free tandem jump (the instructor offered to comp the jump, the chute packer offered to comp the repack, and another skydiver offered me...

Oh, so in that case I guess it sucks down 30% more fuel to go the same speed and distance, hauling the same non-fuel load. Sweet.:rofl:

IIRC, Rev. Jim memory item here, but the brood refers to the nymphal lifecycle duration: "13" refers to the 13-year version, "17" refers to the 17-year version, etc. IOW, each brood has a different and unique duration of the nymphal state, ranging fron 1 year to 17 years. Stangely enough, the...

It really isn't all that difficult if you know who to ask and what you need to request. You simply tell tower (ground) A what you wish to do, ask for flight following, and ask them to coordinate with the other tower. You will be told that you are "...cleared SVFR out of class delta...you can...

What Part 135 operation do you know that uses pilots for the right seat that hold less than a commercial certificate?

Why do you feel the required 250 hours experience is limited to ASEL?

I am sharing Cabin 9 with the true Germans (Bernd and Arno).;)

Fly Fishing with Mary See (repeat photo) I posted the attached photos in another thread but for those interested in fly fishing the White River and Norfork River, here's the evidence.

A good guide can make all the difference in the world. Yesterday I had the first trout on a fly within 10 minutes of stepping into the river. Here are two that Mary See caught yesterday.

Periodic Wind Report - Gaston's Runway The wind is picking up slightly already this morning. There was none at 6:15 AM, but at 6:45 it was definitely underway for the day, favoring RWY 24, probably variable between 200 and 240 degrees, maybe ~5-10 kts.

That is a factor (the Mooney is in the afternoon shade spot). There is also fly fishing for trout on these two excellent tail water rivers...

I will not be here at the runway between ~ 7 AM and ~ 5 or 6 PM tomorrow. FWIW, this afternoon I found that the Mountain Home ASOS recording matched the Gaston's conditions.