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My son Lane is starting training for his instrument rating. This will be fun to watch. He's already quizzing me about questions on the test, for which he is studying.
Here's a good one he asked about tonight:
"by which means may a pilot determine if a loran c equipped aircraft is approved for IFR purposes?"

Gotta love those Feds.
 
Lance F said:
"by which means may a pilot determine if a loran c equipped aircraft is approved for IFR purposes?"
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You can double-check it with a HF range or fan-marker I guess.
 
Lance F said:
My son Lane is starting training for his instrument rating. This will be fun to watch. He's already quizzing me about questions on the test, for which he is studying.
Here's a good one he asked about tonight:
"by which means may a pilot determine if a loran c equipped aircraft is approved for IFR purposes?"

Gotta love those Feds.
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If it says so and is signed off by the FSDO in the POH supplement ...




I gotta real nice Loran C for sale if you want it :D
 
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The "new" rental at my airport has a LORAN in it. I'd never seen one in person, all the planes I flew had GPS of some form or another.

This one turns on and functions great. After doing its power-ups and checks it then says "NO SIGNAL WHATSOEVER". I can hear it crying, wanting to do something. Poor little device.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
I can hear it crying, wanting to do something. Poor little device.
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That's too funny Ted. I've got one. Never turned it on in the 10 years I've owned the Tiger. I keep threatening both it and the ADF, but they look so forlorn, I can't bring myself to turn them into doorstops. I may put them up for adoption or at least send them to boarding school when the right time comes. :D
 
Anthony said:
That's too funny Ted. I've got one. Never turned it on in the 10 years I've owned the Tiger. I keep threatening both it and the ADF, but they look so forlorn, I can't bring myself to turn them into doorstops. I may put them up for adoption or at least send them to boarding school when the right time comes. :D
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I have an ADF in the Aztec and use it every flight. Yep, those numbers sure are useful for a poor-man's altitude preselect.
 
Lance F said:
"by which means may a pilot determine if a loran c equipped aircraft is approved for IFR purposes?"
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Checking to see if it's installed in a Tardis so you can go back to when there were LORAN signals for it to use.
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Ted DuPuis said:
I have an ADF in the Aztec and use it every flight. Yep, those numbers sure are useful for a poor-man's altitude preselect.
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I have an ADF as well:

1- Altitude Preselect ala Ted!
2- Baseball Games on 660/880: Mets & Yankees
3- Poor Man's Stormscope: The Lightning is over THERE ->
4- Practicing NDB approaches 'cause my CFII sez I gotta do them since the ADF's installed :mad2:
 
I actually kinda like doing the ADF approach :D Honestly I'd love to fly an A-N range, but then again I kinda enjoy being a luddite from time to time...
 
rpadula said:
Now that is a great error message! Gives you no hope at all. Kudos to the designer. :drink:
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Isn't it? "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

DutchessFlier said:
I have an ADF as well:

1- Altitude Preselect ala Ted!
2- Baseball Games on 660/880: Mets & Yankees
3- Poor Man's Stormscope: The Lightning is over THERE ->
4- Practicing NDB approaches 'cause my CFII sez I gotta do them since the ADF's installed :mad2:
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1: Doesn't it work great? :)
2: YANKEES! (how YOU doin'?!)
3: Hey, never thought of that! I find the eye-dar to be the most useful at night. *flash of lightning* That must be a storm. Hmm. That's right in front of me. I should fly somewhere else.
4: I've actually gone into airports where the only approach is an NDB! I was hoping I'd get to shoot one for real, but the weather was never bad enough to require it. Anyway, the primary reason I keep mine in is that I have faith one day it will serve me well.

vontresc said:
I actually kinda like doing the ADF approach :D Honestly I'd love to fly an A-N range, but then again I kinda enjoy being a luddite from time to time...
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Same here. Plus it makes me feel far more pioneering than these days where all the technology makes it virtually impossible to get lost. Then again, I like having 6 levers in my plane and would go with 8 if I could add manual wastegate turbos. :)
 
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