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Good practice makes better.
Good practice makes better.
That embedded pic doesn’t look like any C172 I’ve ever seen 
If you think Florida is where IFR skills go to die; try the deserts of California. When you see anything but a standing lenticular or a thin cirrus layer there, you’d better make sure your Last Will & Testament are up to date.
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That’s why I carry a magnifying glass and a seeing eye doggie
The 1202 Alarm reference was perfect. Thanks for the laugh!
Good article. If I took a two weeks off, when I came back, I’d warn my copilots that I’ve had two weeks off, and they’d better watch me for a couple of days. The edge comes off fast!
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I feel your pain, Paul. I got my instrument rating a couple of years ago and replaced my attitude and heading indicators with a pair of G5s driven by a brand-new Garmin 650. Looks and flies like a six-pack, but with lots of nice tricks up its sleeve. I’m happy flying with paper charts (plus my 650’s database), but here in Canada paper approach plates are going away as of this September. Maybe I can print the ones I need once I’ve downloaded the electronic copies.
Meanwhile, my wife happily follows along with Foreflight on the iPad in her lap. At least I’m not the one swearing at it when you touch the wrong part of the screen. (Not to say that I don’t fat-finger the 650 once in a while, but I can recover faster from that.)
Speaking of weather, my pain is different from yours. At this time of year most clouds here in Vancouver have ice in them, so getting actual isn’t such a great idea in a non-FIKI airplane. It took me two months to get an instructor and the weather to line up for my initial checkride, and I’ve been waiting almost a month so far trying to get my IPC.
HAHAAA. Love it!
The airlines MUST be using a different system than the rest of us poor schlubs! Gotta wonder why they get preferential treatment vs the rest of us ALL the time. #'s game? Frustrating!
When we got to our hotel in Nassau, a guy came up to us while we were checking in and asked if we were BACK to the hotel? We said no, we’d just arrived. He then proceeded to tell us one of their crews that sat for 8 hours with the APU running trying to get a clearance! We had just arrived from ATL area so we must’ve missed it?
What a shit show!
The airlines were just let off the hold first. Private departures from major airports are always on as available departure spots. The airlines research the departure times.
Data corruption was one of the worries when ‘modernizing’. Long range beacon radar was likely not matching ADS-B… computer got confused. Can be caused by a GPS jamming. The military reports their jamming so that the data stream can be removed.
This is what I was warned about when I suggested moving to an ADS-B type system. It can be jammed and there must be a backup. But when do you trust the GPS ADS-B data over the beacon radar?
Not saying this is what happened… but it could.
They tried, but they mistook their minimized leverage for problem maximization. Han had to deal with it quite often. Just one of many miniature Wookie mistakes.
You have to decide which is truth data, and stick with it.
Radar is not as accurate with slower updates, but less likely to be jammed/spoofed. So, treat it as truth data.
If ADS-B does not match truth data within Xft horizontal and Yft vertical, you throw the ADS-B out.