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The handheld radio I use in the Cub has a feature where it checks, every one or two seconds, for alert broadcasts on one of the weather band frequencies. That process includes you missing a syllable once every one or two seconds in AWOS and other long transmissions because it silences what...

That might explain why it's never been written down. :D All I know is that it's 100% dairy-free.

If you ever visit North Dakota, make sure to try my dairy-free eggnog. The recipe is far too complicated to share online, but you start with a glass of bourbon, neat, and then drink it.

For American servicemen, I think training for WW2 was more deadly than fighting all subsequent wars combined. An article I found just now says 15,000 airmen were killed in training during the war. Another says about 40% of USAAC pilots died in training accidents. Meanwhile, more soldiers died in...

ASN says "abnormal runway contact event." All I see from the NTSB is that it was operated by a part 141 outfit, flown on a part 91 training flight, had substantial damage, and caused no injuries. Do you know more about the mishap, or any preliminary lessons to learn from it?

Agreed. Like I said, the envelope may (we don't know) have been smaller than usual. Less controllable due to aft CG. Stall at higher IAS for a given bank angle due to weight. The things I don't know are how an imminent stall feels in a Cirrus and how hard it is to recover from an imminent stall...

@AV8R_87: Can someone estimate the W&B for four adults, one child, and full fuel? @Feh: My W&B loading setup only has four seats but let's put a total of 410 lbs in front and 368 lbs in the back. And let's make two of them men and two of them women, although that doesn't affect W&B. The rest of...

I think the question is when to change from a plan to circle to a plan to land straight-in. In my opinion, that’s a decision that should be made before the FAF. Under JFR, you can make that call as you descend below circling minimums. I’m very leery of downwind landings, in no small part...

The pattern looked normal to me. There's a downwind leg, a freebase leg, and a needle track on final.

Thanks. I don’t have a copy of the JAR/JIM.

By normal conditions I mean anything other than a simulated or actual equipment failure. In this instance, the normal operation would be flying an approach to circling minimums so I can circle to land when all of the navigational systems are working correctly. For example, if the big runway 9-27...

That's how I run it when I am flying a coupled approach with vertical guidance. But the scenario here was deliberately flying to nonprecision (circling) minimums. That works to simulate a WAAS failure. But my transponder gets its position from the GTN and I don't particularly want to turn off...

Aviate, navigate, defenestrate.

That makes sense, and it’s something I’ll have to practice with to get a feel for the best way to fly a non precision approach with all this fancy glass.

It’s an LPV so the avionics wanted me to fly the glidepath. I don’t know how to force an LNAV+V depiction when LPV is working.

Al Mooney was 9’3” if he was a foot and he ran 650 lbs. He used to drive around in an ice cream truck covered in human skulls. His family crest is a picture of a barracuda eating Neal Armstrong. On Sundays, he would put on a white tie and tails and walk his pet cobra through the park on a leash...

I was out flying practice approaches today and decided to try an LNAV to circling minimums. I have a G3X Touch experimental and a GTN 650 Xi. It should behave the same as a GFC 500 autopilot in case anyone knows how it is supposed to work on those. Starting before the IAF, I set the altitude...

If so, they are incredibly lucky regardless of the drug bust. FlightAware shows them having turned for something like a final approach after flying downwind and base over the ocean.

I’ve heard the same for turbine time. Spend a few years flying turboprop spray planes and you’ll be more insurable in a King Air. The same kind of insanity as giving me insurance in a B-17 because I have a bunch of J-3 Cub time.

My experience was with a 310, so not a pressurized plane but otherwise similar. And it was 3 years ago. But my insurance agent went to bat for me and even reached out to companies she was confident would never give me a quote. It ended up being one of those unlikely places that gave the best...