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Alaska's actually quite small compared to the largest state of the country I'm from… :-) (And Texas isn't even as large as my home state, a middling state by my background).

I guess I never quite get this reaction, especially having grown up speaking English rather differently to the average American. Back when I was a kid playing cricket, for instance, we'd use "near miss" and "close miss" interchangeably when talking about bowling, with the obvious meaning of the...

The link's working fine for me…

Yeah, things like that stopped me going mirrorless until Nikon's second version of the Z7, the Z7 II, came along — it's much better at things like coverage, lag, etc., and eyestrain doesn't seem to be a factor any more when I use it. It's probably not quite there yet for what it sounds like you...

You'd have to do Roy's in Amboy, California (as someone up-thread says): https://generalaviationnews.com/2022/03/09/get-your-kicks-on-route-66/. It's a Route 66 classic, but the strip has no identifier any more; unfortunately, I've only ever seen the place from the ground (many times over the...

As a minor tangential point, Google claims that it no longer scans the bodies of emails in gmail for ad serving purposes — it now uses your more general online behavior instead. See e.g. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10434152?hl=en Not that that answers the original question, but hey...

You could, but I seem to lose 20% of my IQ under the hood or in IMC and would probably botch a calculation like this on the fly (as it were), so I'd probably just use the TFD 046 radial as-is — what's 1.5NM in a context like this?!

Timing? If you're doing 120 knots, and the wind isn't significant, you can safely give yourself (say) four minutes in any direction from SNOWL, five if you push it. It's not exact, but it doesn't need to be exactly exact. Alternatively, you could use TFD R-046 as a distance marker (exercise left...

When I flew in Australia, altitudes were in feet based on metric pressures, distances in a mixture of metres (runway lengths), kms, and nautical miles, airspeeds in knots, fuel capacity in litres, passenger weights in kg, etc., etc. (often depending on the specific GA aircraft) — quite a...

Nice! And it's not kinda cool, it's very cool :).

Yeah, but… the question was about controllable pitch props, not constant speed props :).

Nice… what are you flying?

Sadly, it's the first thing I thought when I saw your original post :).

Strictly speaking (and pedantically), if they really mean "controllable pitch propeller" rather than constant speed propeller, the answer is probably a little more complicated, and more akin to what happens with a fixed pitch prop until the pilot adjusts the prop pitch manually. But then I've...

And, indeed, it turns out the next open cockpit day is this October 8! I didn't know you could get into the SR-71, but that makes it an even more attractive event. Definitely worth going to, whether you can get to one of the open cockpit days or just the normal displays…

I'll Bet :). I've only been under a bunch of departing B52s once (in the UK, a long time ago), and that was louder than Concorde, which is saying something…

There's also an SR-71 at Castle Air Museum at the old Castle AFB site at Atwater, CA, in the Central Valley. It's a great museum to visit, but, sadly, you can't see into the SR-71's cockpit, just walk around the plane itself. There's a lot of other good planes at the museum, including (among a...

True (as I just discovered — thanks). I guess the need for specially trained crews on both sides of the scopes didn't make using PRM worth it, even given KSFO's notorious issues with delays during IMC. Me, I'll stick with KOAK's single runway where at least the delays aren't guaranteed every...

I've certainly never done one, but from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_runway_monitor: PRM is one type of radar system that can be used to allow simultaneous approaches on parallel runways that are spaced less than 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) to each other. Airports at which PRM is in use...