GumpAir wrote:Latest TFR's?? Don't you call Flight Service for the latest TFR's, Wx and file a Flight Plan??
Yeah right, the pilot lounge at Smith Creek dry lakebed has a phone and nice computer for us to use when camped out there.
Gump
Sweet!!
VFR Poll: GPS VOR NDB
Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:46 pm
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Sweet!!
Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:59 pm
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Where was the option for "nope" 
Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:23 pm
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In the post-apocalypse, you could home in on AM radio stations with that ADF, as long as someone is there to start the generator.
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:59 pm
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^^^Yeah, we can't wait for Walking Dead either.
Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:42 pm
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:07 pm
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Why was dead recon not a choice with a correct pencil length? It is more interesting to fly that way.
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:14 pm
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I still have the pencil from my Super Cub. Worth 1 hour on a WAC chart. It was stubby.
Other pencil is getting that way too....
Gump
Other pencil is getting that way too....
Gump
Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:17 pm
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My pencil is only worth 15min. 
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:23 pm
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My pencil is bigger than your pencil. Gump has pencil envy.
Tim
Gump has pencil envy. Tim
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:08 pm
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qmdv wrote:Why was dead recon not a choice with a correct pencil length? It is more interesting to fly that way.
Tim
Dead reckoning is fun but I can't help looking outside and compare it to my chart...i.e. "pilotage."
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:50 pm
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Whats with the measured pencils?
SEctionals have always been 80 miles long at the folds and 40 miles wide at the folds.
WACs are double that.
Surely everyone has some kind of timepiece.
All the roads rivers lakes towns hills and stuff on the charts are clearly depicted out the window too.!
I have had many more GPS, VOR, ADF shutdowns, and GPS area closedowns than the only one time I lost my chart which was not gripped tight enough in my teeth when I looked to my right while flying an open cockpit TigerMoth from Fairbanks to CA.
I didnt need a chart for that, I could read the roadsigns at the blistering speed I was travelling at and did not replenish my chart except with a shirt pocket State Farm US road map.
SEctionals have always been 80 miles long at the folds and 40 miles wide at the folds.
WACs are double that.
Surely everyone has some kind of timepiece.
All the roads rivers lakes towns hills and stuff on the charts are clearly depicted out the window too.!
I have had many more GPS, VOR, ADF shutdowns, and GPS area closedowns than the only one time I lost my chart which was not gripped tight enough in my teeth when I looked to my right while flying an open cockpit TigerMoth from Fairbanks to CA.
I didnt need a chart for that, I could read the roadsigns at the blistering speed I was travelling at and did not replenish my chart except with a shirt pocket State Farm US road map.
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Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:54 pm
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maules.com wrote:Whats with the measured pencils?
male anatomy jokes.
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Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:14 am
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NDB and VOR approaches are still a way of life up here in Canada, unfortunately...and we still get tested on them during sim renewals, all GPS based nav mysteriously disappears.
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