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Always up for shared heli cockpit, just completed the i11 rating in the BK117 if you have any PE-specific heli-IFR questions.

Busted a Bravo tonight, just over Ramona. I was fiddling around in the freeware V22 trying to get the autopilot to work before I realized how far west I had strayed. I looked down, saw an airport, and did a 180 out of there. So yeah, that was me. Sorry.

Hooray!!!

I've been pushing PE on my instructor friends up North, hopefully you get some phone calls in the future and I get a PNW expansion!

I5 done: http://peaware.pilotedge.net/flight.cfm?id=99357 I was cleared visual approach from CRESO to 19R, and amended to the west helipad once lined up on the runway. The only thing I should have planned a little better was the visual approach plan and contingent IFR approach if weather was below m...

Currently enroute at FL011!



Watch my flight live: (I'm bored and lonely)

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Can you fly the I5 in a non-pressurized aircraft? Looking at the SID for VNY1 shows a climb to 12000' for ETHER TO DAGGETT, which I am unable to perform without bringing along my scuba-gear. As you may have figured out, I'm intending to do my entire I-rating program in the BK17 so I would like to ac...

I can give you a hand later tonight if you like Chris. Hit me up on Skype after 7PST.

I'm back home now after a road trip, would love to help out on the 407 or the 206 etc. We can do some Bravo transitions shared if you like, those are fun.

Whelp. I got greedy and tried for 5Ghz. Ended up spending the last two days recovering data off my Raid array by installing Ubuntu, learning how to use mdadm, and then copying 300GB off manually. (Fortunately I'd cleaned off the other 4TB recently or this post would be a longer time coming.) Morale ...