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- Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: cant hear other players
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4643
Re: cant hear other players
You'd only hear another pilot if they're on the exact same frequency you're on. Even in real flying, sometimes a tower controller will be handling tower/ground, and you'll hear them give a command to another plane on another frequency and never hear the read back.
- Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Extremely Tough Helo Landing (video)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1861
Re: Extremely Tough Helo Landing (video)
That pilot gets a gold medal for courage/stupidity.
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:32 am
- Forum: Pilots
- Topic: Pattern Work Question
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6547
Re: Pattern Work Question
In my real flying, after the climb speed is stable, I check at 200 feet by looking back through the rear windows. You just need to be sure you're not drifting, especially if there is a parallel runway. I've had experiences where I've been climbing out next to another plane on the parallel runway, an...
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:34 pm
- Forum: Pilots
- Topic: KEMT Approach Question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1396
Re: KEMT Approach Question
For an approach that just brings you abeam the airport without a specified runway, you'll receive circling instructions with a pattern entry from the tower as you check in. For example you may just receive, "Cessna 123, circle east of the field, enter left downwind runway 19. Report turning bas...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Well Done "Honest" Lesson Learned
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1510
Re: Well Done "Honest" Lesson Learned
This video is definitely one of the best demonstrations of why you never fly in marginal VFR conditions and also why you really need to impose personal minimums to avoid situations like this. Scary stuff!
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:30 am
- Forum: Pilots
- Topic: True cost of ownership for a LSA (Light Sport Aircraft)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1934
Re: True cost of ownership for a LSA (Light Sport Aircraft)
You may want to ask the forum on pilotsofamerica. There are tons of aircraft owners there with tons of insight.
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Basic FSX Enough??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2344
Re: Basic FSX Enough??
You'll be looking to update the AFCAD files. Just look it up in the AVSIM file library (the last airport I updated was SBP, San Luis Obispo). Follow the directions in the downloaded file and it should be a bit more accurate than the stock FSX taxiways.
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:57 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Basic FSX Enough??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2344
Re: Basic FSX Enough??
The AVSIM file library has some good updates to taxiway sign/layouts at many of the airports in SoCal. If you plane to base your flying out of a particular airport, it would be good to download an update to the stock FSX layout. Sometimes the discrepancies are pretty ridiculous.
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 3:00 pm
- Forum: Pilots
- Topic: Class C VFR Departure - When to make turn on course
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5148
Re: Class C VFR Departure - When to make turn on course
Check the airport and facility directory for appropriate noise abatement procedures. Usually I make my turns at 500 feet, but sometimes you'll see higher in the AF/D to protect the folks living below the departure runway. Also, sometimes ATC will ask you to expedite sometimes for traffic. Tower woul...
- Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:13 am
- Forum: Pilots
- Topic: VNY Departure
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2938
Re: VNY Departure
I'll try to make things simple. TEC routes are used to facilitate traffic flow between airports in congested airspace like SoCal. (A real world pilot I just met said to me the other day that he gave up flying VFR in LA because of the general congestion of the area). TEC routes are designed to make s...