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I've always read that part of the requirement to mean you need to be able to display all of required components simultaneously. Meaning, if you had an Avidyne IFD-550, you couldn't use the synthetic vision page as your PFD because you can't display both that and the moving map. I think all...

That's what I interpreted what you responded to. And yes, I look when I turn. I also look through my turns when I drive and turn my head and look over my shoulder before changing lanes.

Personally I do a 270 degree turn to the outside of each corner in the pattern to make sure there is not conflicting traffic. In all seriousness, the difference between looking down the extended final or looking over your shoulder into a turn seem night and day to me compared to the 90-90...

#2. Don't discount insurance and storage, especially as a newly minted PPL. If you have zero retract, they will punish you on insurance. I purchased an Arrow 18 months ago when I was about 70 hours TT. The plane was in the "sweet spot" a lot of people referred to here, about 350hours on a...

The ACS requires that obstacles are taken into account during pretty much all phases of flight as part of risk management. I imagine you'd bust your checkride if you hit something on any approach. So if there is an obstacle there, you better darn well account for it whether it's a short field...

That makes sense. I was only thinking of it in context of where there is risk of fuel ignition.

You're one of those the Earth is round people aren't you? Clearly huffing too many chemtrails. :D

Will you never forget to disconnecting the bonding wire or do you never bond your aircraft after that incident? Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not an electrician nor an electrical engineer), but I didn't think the purpose of the bonding wire is to ground or remove static electricity, but rather...

If Kelsey is at all accurate in his assessment, airlines just need to sell more credit cards: It is a little terrifying to think that the credit card spiffs are what make the big 3 profitable.

I have to admit, I was really hoping there would be an anecdote that Larry actually did impress Madison Apch with a radio flub.

I feel like we're talking the exact same thing, using different words. My whole rationale for sharing my setup was to respond to the OPs presumption that Garmin was doing something sneaky by requiring GPS for the GFC-500. My GFC installer was quite clear about that requirement for radio...

I understand that the actual signal routing may not work the way I stated/understood, but I don't think that changes my understanding of how the functionality affects the GFC-500. In the scenario where my single GPS unit fails, the APR, NAV, TRK, and VNAV functions on the GFC-500 all become...

You'd think if the pilot was turning the nav lights on and off to avoid someone tracking him, he would have turned off his ADSB-out. At least they didn't call it a Cessna. As long as we're speculating, that's a long time in the air for a 48 gallon Cherokee with multiple take-offs. Be a real...

I'm not the expert here. What I understood was that I could drive the GFC-500 from the NAV/COM2 unit (a standalone radio/nav unit whose model escapes me) by routing the signal to the GPS unit and tossing the CDI. In that case, if the GPS were dead (not just GPS signal loss), it would not...

My point was just that without the GPS, the GFC-500 does not have the capability to navigate from ground based radio navigation of any source type. In the conversation with the avionics shop, we decided to just leave the analog CDI hooked to the NAV/COM2 vs. changing to send it into the GPS and...

Because most students are paying by the hour and they're not all fabulously wealthy.

My Arrow II came with dual G5s and an Avidyne IFD540. Added a GFC-500 earlier this year and the GAD-13 (I think). Removed the vacuum at that time. My only wish was that the panel was all Garmin, but I couldn't really justify the cost to dump the IFD for the few features, like being able to set...

But...you can't actually do that with the GFC-500. Garmin is pretty clear that with the loss of GPS information, the NAV button goes away as an option. Maybe there's a different version yours has, but mine doesn't not have a VOR lateral mode button. If I want to use ground based navigation, I...

Lol, I was in this situation because of a very stiff tailwind on my way back to my starting point. Fortunately I was keeping track and did what was probably the only assertive thing I did during training, asked Norcal to put me somewhere to fly a race tract because I needed to burn 30 minutes.

I mean, 51 is good enough. if you put a ruler on the chart and it's 51nm, who is going to challenge you? That being said, I would think students should flight plan alternates for all of their landings on the long XC and make sure there are alternates >50nm for the last take off. You should...