I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
Same! My checkride was in 2001 in a 1979 Cessna 150.
My check pilot was a 5'2" WWII vet that needed a booster seat and was notorious for opening his damn door on final approach (which he did to me, luckily I was prepared).
This is one of those posts with tons of images whose alt text is just set to the literal string "alt text".
Does anybody know where this phenomenon comes from? This isn't the first time I'm seeing this, and I don't know why anybody ever thought that it was a good idea.
Single Engine Land PPL holder here. I would have loved this when I was flying still. Such memories with the kneeboard and nav logs! Fun fact: I left my plotter and E6B in my black car in TX during cross-country training and came back to both melted! I was broke and 18 so figured I would wing it, but it surely made my calculations error biased by some amount of yards because I was broke and not wanting to buy a new on…
Hahaha, I had a similar thing, I folded my E6B day 1 hour 2 of ground school... anything from 130deg to 210deg had a +-5deg parallax error
You should look into a roll chart. It’s a small device typically mounted to a handlebar of a motorcycle that contains directions. As you reach each waypoint, you turn a knob and roll the next waypoint into the window. It should work just great with your receipt printer and your not limited to the length of the A pillar in your plane.
I've ridden a motorbike for 15 years and this is the first I've heard of roll charts!
Prior to phones, I would just scrawl my notes onto a sheet of A5 and tape it to the top of the tank. It didn't work well when it was raining.
I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
G1000s are great, but it's disappointing that just about everything else has remained basically unchanged on GA aircraft for the last 30+ years. I hope that we will see some actual innovation in GA engines, airframes, and fuels soon. Fuels might be the most promising for the near-term.
Nearly all the innovation in general aviation, particularly regarding situational awareness and safety, is happening in the Experimental category. Moving maps, synthetic vision/terrain alerts, ADS-B in and out, engine monitoring, airspeed-aware electronic trim control, fuel injection, electronic ignition, FADEC systems... yes, all are available on newer certificated planes for $,$$$,$$$, but much more affordable and accessible in the Experimental world. And, the builder/owner can install and configure everything himself. Garmin's latest G3X update includes the ability to use rudimentary set/clear logic signals to do if-this-and-that type CAS alerts, and configure your gauges to behave differently during different phases of flight. All owner-configurable.
This is one of those posts with tons of images whose alt text is just set to the literal string "alt text". Does anybody know where this phenomenon comes from? This isn't the first time I'm seeing this, and I don't know why anybody ever thought that it was a good idea.
The `alt` attribute is technically required for `img` tags, so if you run your HTML through a validator, or want to shut up IDE/editor warnings, you're going to have to add it. It can be an empty string though IIRC.