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And it's not going to work. Java Web Start isn't supported anymore, as it's a huge security hole. It's been disabled anywhere recent. You could get this working, but it would take quite a bit of work to run it outside of Java Web Start. Here's the contents of the file. Note the date and...

It's not all bad. My home airport, PAO, has some excellent controllers and lots of trainees. The trainees make their share of mistakes, but they are corrected almost immediately. With over 500 ops a day average on a single runway and sometimes crazy weekends, it's not a place that would...

I wonder if any of the light guns have switched from incandescent to LED, changing the difficulty of differentiating.

RGB displays make color very differently than spot colors on printed materials. Everything is tuned to produce a standard three-dimensional colorspace that looks right to a person with regular color vision, but that doesn't mean the underlying spectrum of two identical-looking (to someone with...

This. The screen real-estate on the iPad mini is about 70% more. The diagonal measurement makes it feel close, but it really isn't. I recommend the mini. Second reason for recommending the mini: less stuff to go wrong. If it's your phone, you're more likely to use it daily, abuse it, load it...

Some of that has to do with location. You're in Michigan. Out there, gas is cheap and attitudes toward things like electric cars tend in the direction of your attitude. Who's going to buy an electric car in that environment? Yeah...the person you just listed. They're going to be rich and showing...

The big problem with LED replacements is that are more than an electrical device, like incandescent bulbs. They are also electronic devices, with all the complications that come with that. Interference and cooling are probably the two biggest issues. A poorly designed or shielded circuit can...

Nearly. It also doesn't provide syncing flight plans. You need the 510 for that, too. This is what's in my plane...haven't splurged on the 510 yet.

Read 103.1(e)(1). The floats are very clever way of adding in structure without counting against the total weight allowed. And they can advertise the safety aspect!

I'm not bullish on this thing. It's probably going to fail, like most of these ventures do. And for the same reason: too expensive to be just a toy ($1000/hour!!) and just not useful enough to be anything else. The engineering looks sound on the surface, though. Some guessing going on...there...

There's no reason for something like that to ever use an airport. It's expressly not allowed in controlled airspace. Even if it were at an airport, it should be flown to behave like a helicopter, which we share the air with all the time.

Get around? Seems to match right up, though the weight might need some creativity to justify. §103.1 Applicability. This part prescribes rules governing the operation of ultralight vehicles in the United States. For the purposes of this part, an ultralight vehicle is a vehicle that: (a) Is...

Thinking about going to French Valley from Palo Alto next Saturday. Crossing fingers for good weather!

The confusion may be that the two WAAS augmentation satellites are geosynchronous.

It's longer than a few minutes on a truly cold start. The full ephemeris information takes 12.5 minutes to transmit, then there's some time for the box to process. 345 is pretty recent, so I imagine that's pretty minimal. Older boxes could take 15-20 minutes total. I've had my KLN-94 take 15...

Continental themselves basically say not to even look into issues until it hits 80/40.