Runway safety

Ron Levy said:
First, 600 feet should be enough to see the signage and markings. Second, I hope you're only doing that at airports with positive physical access control to the airside, because 600 feet isn't enough to stop if you spot a deer on the runway nearing rotation speed in what you fly.
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Yes. A requirement for a takeoff with Vis that low (600) is centreline lights (CL) and HIRL's. Any airport with CL's is certianly going to have a fence. That said, I've seen deer inside fenced airports. Chalk it up to accepted risk.
 
Henning said:
Yeah, but you still have a hard to see buggy system.
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IMO all the Garmin GPS's are crap from a UI perspective compared to an iPad running Foreflight. The touchscreens on them are horrible.
 
Captain said:
Yes. A requirement for a takeoff with Vis that low (600) is centreline lights (CL) and HIRL's. Any airport with CL's is certianly going to have a fence. That said, I've seen deer inside fenced airports. Chalk it up to accepted risk.
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Our airport tends to have rather large turkeys
 
jesse said:
IMO all the Garmin GPS's are crap from a UI perspective compared to an iPad running Foreflight. The touchscreens on them are horrible.
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Funny...I had no complaints at all about my Garmin Aera....until I got an iPad 2. Now I keep getting frustrated every time I try to pinch the screen on the Garmin:mad2:
 
jesse said:
IMO all the Garmin GPS's are crap from a UI perspective compared to an iPad running Foreflight. The touchscreens on them are horrible.
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Whatever, my iPad crashes enough and it's view ability is poor enough that I'd have a dedicated unit regardless. IPad backing the G-500 is fine for me, but if I was only going to have one screen in my cockpit, it would not be an iPad.
 
Ron Levy said:
Unless those next two runway crossings are less than 1000 feet apart, they can't do that any more -- only one crossing clearance at a time now.
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They're less than 1000' apart at the airport I was referencing.
 
Henning said:
Whatever, my iPad crashes enough and it's view ability is poor enough that I'd have a dedicated unit regardless. IPad backing the G-500 is fine for me, but if I was only going to have one screen in my cockpit, it would not be an iPad.
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It's no contest between my 696's screen & the I-Pad in a plane with a clear canopy. The 696 wins without doubt. It's never been close to un-readable, and you can't say that about an I-Pad
 
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