foxonefoxone wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:28 am my medical has 'must wear glasses' as a limitation, can I renew by self attestation?

Yes.

It sounds like your fear is perfectly rational. Generally there is no need for more than about 35 degrees of bank in the circuit. While it's safe to do a 45 degree turn at low level if you have sufficient airspeed, you generally shouldn't be going that fast in the circuit unless you've already screw...

Yes, the portal still shows Sep 2019 for my cat 1 medical expiry, but they confirmed by email that the attestation is valid to renew my cat 3 medical. That email came 21 days after the email confirming they had received my attestation (in June).

That is a bit tricky cause ATC cleared you to 3000'. The reason for this clearance could be that keeping 3800' til intercept would put you above the GS. I would have gotten the wrong answer but I would have descended to 3000' intercept the loc and do the approach. Should still get a good signal at ...

@photofly Can you elaborate with reason why you believe this “ is a really mean-spirited and petty thread“? . Seems pretty obvious. Everyone is saying his GF crashed, with zero evidence. No matter who was at the controls, it was his responsibility to maintain airspeed, which he admits he failed at ...

Id now is 45% false positive but the troubling stat is the 26% false negatives. There is a place for this quick and inaccurate test but it shouldn't be seen as catchment to stop the spread. The Americans are the ones who have the data on it and essentially gave it an exemption as most tests need to...

Crashed near the entrance to Strawberry Creek raceway. The CTV report says no airports anywhere near there, but there is an airstrip at Strawberry Creek. which can be seen on google maps satellite view, and in pics on their facebook page, so presumably he was landing there. The downed power lines r...

Some more info here: https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/2-dead-in-plane-crash-southwest-of-edmonton-1.5121674?cache=zebypyyuaqxg Crashed near the entrance to Strawberry Creek raceway. The CTV report says no airports anywhere near there, but there is an airstrip at Strawberry Creek. which can be seen on goo...

WJ Strikes again! -- kicks off family traveling to hospital --- for other child's heart transplant . No swat team this time. Team Teal's caped crusaders handled it themselves. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/transport-canada-mask-children-flights-1.5732572 Yeah its pretty ridiculous. Other countri...

If you have a fuel flow meter, it's quite enlightening. The carbureted O-360 burns about 12gph at 75% power before leaning, and fuel flow after leaning can vary by at least 1gph depending on how you've leaned it. Climb is about 14 or 15 gph, and it's burning 2gph all the time you're farting about on...

But wait you are all missing the point. Cloth masks filter 3 percent of germs out of the air. The is ground breaking and will save us all. Everything I read has said wrap anything around your face and you will save lives... So dammit put your mother's panties over your face if that's all you can fi...

I think you'd need to be crazy not to dip the tanks on a 172, unless you've just filled them up to the top. But I guess that nicely explains why some people run out of gas.

Capt. Underpants wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:15 am
Gawd I hope you’re not a pilot. This level of daft does not belong on a tricycle, never mind in a cockpit.

Your trolling detector is seriously in need of a major overhaul, mr underpants.

Ipads seem to be pretty bad at handling sunlight. My newish ipad pro always shuts down when I'm simply reading something and it's sunny and around 20C. It's never happened in the cockpit yet, but I usually keep it on my lap or in the door map pocket out of the sun. Might be due to the cover.

Looks like it may be a lee trough caused by the 25kt winds over the rockies, combined with the low pressure system moving east. So probably the main thing to worry about would be the wind and turbulence. It's the kind of weather I wouldn't want to be flying down low in a small plane anywhere west of...

TailBeaconX is reasonably priced but it does require another $1500-$3000 head to interface with it. It’s a whole new transponder unlike the SkyBeacon that intercepts your existing transponder signal and adds on the ADS-B portion via UAT. They don’t really mention the new head unless you start looki...

Do you know if the ADSB info that is being sent from the airplane indicates if it has a diversity antenna install or not? Do controllers have the ability see that you are using a non-diversity antenna install? Either they'll see your signal or not. But, if you get a non-diverse solution you could e...

tailbeaconX seems to be the only reasonably priced solution with diversity at the moment.

In EFBs the plates are all together. CAP, RCAP, RNP, all approaches are there. If you are not expecting it, it's easy to think that an ILS is a CAP approach and miss the note that says Ops Spec. Especially in Victoria where the ATIS says approach in use is ILS 27 and you're all set up for it and th...

Looks like it had shoulder harnesses:

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