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by CpnCrunch
Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: ADS-B
Replies: 2
Views: 3018

Re: ADS-B

Not a controller but I've been told they get TAS, so pilots have to be a bit extra careful about being more than 5% off on their planned TAS as well as with crossing restrictions during a STAR TAS and IAS are optional in ADS-B, and if you have a look on adbsexchange you'll see that none of the airl...
by CpnCrunch
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:44 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

goingnowherefast wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:18 am Is there a good way to view the GFAs? I can't deal with the new site on mobile devices.
Wxbrief.ca
by CpnCrunch
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: Instrument - Lost Comms - What will you do?
Replies: 3
Views: 173

Re: Instrument - Lost Comms - What will you do?

I will squawk 7600 and then since I have the ACC in my cell phone contacts. If I lose comms I will phone them and sort this out. If you've just taken off and are being vectored, I don't know if trying to find the phone number of ATC and then calling them is necessarily the best option.Would a bette...
by CpnCrunch
Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

I was just looking for a better solution and came across wxbrief.ca and notam.ca (which I see were also mentioned previously in this thread). Both work great, and show the info from CFPS and they work really well on mobile. Also, for weather, avalanche.ca is good at showing an overview of weather up...
by CpnCrunch
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

I never used CFPS and now that AWWS is gone I use the aero weather app and DINS for notams. FltPlan Go can be used for METARs, TAFs and airport NOTAMs, and Foreflight additionally has FIR NOTAMS if you want to pay (which I don't any more). I tried DINS for FIR NOTAMS, but it doesn't seem to be all ...
by CpnCrunch
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

Looking at it further, it looks like on phones there is a slight advantage in that you don't have the left-hand pseudo-frame with the airports and tickboxes that you see on the ipad (and desktop), which takes up a lot of the space on the ipad. It just displays that above the results, so you don't lo...
by CpnCrunch
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

Ohh ya, just tried it on my iPad for the first time. That is pretty bad. Funny enough it works way better on my Google Pixel. Terrible on google pixel 8 phone. Tiny, can't scroll by dragging the gfa images. Would be so easy to create a more usable user interface. Looks like they really over-enginee...
by CpnCrunch
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:32 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

Just tried it on a phone and as predicted it is even more unusable than ipad. Still i,possible to scroll when viewing gfas but due to smaller screen much more difficult to find a non img to drag. Such basic incompetence, even for navcan. Im actually astounded that they havent bothered spending the 5...
by CpnCrunch
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

Ok, unpopular opinion, I know I know. But it seems like they've made the interface on mobile a lot better now and more user friendly. I do agree the simplicity of the Metar/taf on the old site was a huuuge plus, and I wish we still had that. But the interface now in my opinion isn't half bad and it...
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

No, your assumptions are all incorrect there, and actual professional programmers use published APIs rather than relying on guesswork and hacking, which is likely to break in the future. I take it there is no published API then. Then use aviationweather.gov. I guess you're against using roster apps...
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:32 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

What? I was asking where the API is, as it's not listed anywhere on their site. Let's try again with a sensible answer... I'll try not to reply to sass with sass. (unintended pun) If you used your browser's developer tools, you would see that it's a react app that uses an API to access the data wit...
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

dontcallmeshirley wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:39 am
CpnCrunch wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:19 am
dontcallmeshirley wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:44 pm On the bright side, they've made it easier to access their API.
Where is that?
If you're a programmer, you'll know. If not, you won't have any use for it.
What? I was asking where the API is, as it's not listed anywhere on their site. Let's try again with a sensible answer...
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: AvCanada finally restored and functional once again
Replies: 32
Views: 4983

Re: AvCanada finally restored and functional once again

If you host on OVH (including their cloud servers), you get DDoS protection included for free. I've used it for many years, and it works great. You also don't have to pay for outgoing or incoming bandwidth.
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:19 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: nav can awws site closure
Replies: 88
Views: 8495

Re: nav can awws site closure

dontcallmeshirley wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:44 pm On the bright side, they've made it easier to access their API.
Where is that?
by CpnCrunch
Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Typical IFR training
Replies: 6
Views: 530

Re: Typical IFR training

If you have a PC, buy a copy of FSX and the Garmin 430 add-on module from Reality XP, and it's a pretty realistic simulation of the procedures, helping you get everything cemented in your brain. (I also have FS 2020, but I think FSX is a bit more useful for practicing instrument procedures). Fly the...
by CpnCrunch
Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Covid
Topic: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing
Replies: 50
Views: 1793

Re: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing

It's so easy to cash in on gullible people. I just wish I had fewer scruples.
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing
Replies: 50
Views: 1793

Re: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing

JerryRig wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:44 pm
Did you know even the Davos club members don’t want vax pilots flying them? I wonder why that is…
That one I was able to debunk in literally 1 second of googling.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 129394002/
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Covid
Topic: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing
Replies: 50
Views: 1793

Re: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing

Actually, I think it's probably for the best that Jerry isn't flying an airliner any more.
by CpnCrunch
Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing
Replies: 50
Views: 1793

Re: Aviation medicals are requiring extra testing

JerryRig wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:54 pm I was only ever wrong once, and that's when I thought I might have been! :lol: :rolleyes:
Maybe you were wrong when you quit your well paying airline job rather than get vaccinated.
by CpnCrunch
Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:51 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: 152 Crash CEJ4 - August 29th
Replies: 22
Views: 2385

Re: 152 Crash CEJ4 - August 29th

A reduced climb rate, but why was this aircraft stalling. Was there some sort of obstacle to clear. I didn't see an estimate of how high the aircraft actually got. Perhaps there were no witnesses. It says the engine ran for 93 seconds at full power (start of takeoff roll), and it crashed a mile bey...

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