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Details, Differences
Enduring a black-screen episode in flight, for those in the know, isn’t as bad as it sounds. While the thought of losing a moving color map is often the modern pilot’s horror-movie nightmare, most...
Readback September 2023
Autopilot Coupling NA?
See the KSTS ILS Runway 32 approach. It states that autopilot coupled approaches are NA below 1038 feet. DA is 380 feet. Why the prohibition on autopilot use?
Tim Massey
Kentfield, California
The navigation...
Logging Sim Time
Back in 2018, the FAA expanded our ability to use training devices to maintain instrument currency. Incomprehensible distinctions between aircraft and various types of simulators were removed. Rated pilots may log currency tasks without...
Proficiency Maneuvers
Robert, my student, called me the other day. He bases his Cirrus SR22T out of Eagle Colorado (KEGE). He wanted to know if I was interested in attempting some of the maneuvers he had...
Belt, Suspenders, Rope
Beyond modernizing my dated avionics, having suitable backups was a big reason for choices made during my first major panel refit years ago. But, after a few significant failures and time flying airliners, that...