One reason why non-approved GPS's aren't allowed to be used for approaches is that they don't switch the CDI automatically from en-route to terminal to approach mode (0.3nm fsd) and then back to terminal mode in the missed approach.
Does your father's handheld GPS even drive (or have) a CDI?
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- Wed Jul 26, 2023 4:28 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: IFR avionics TSO for homebuilts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1057
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: IFR avionics TSO for homebuilts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1057
Re: IFR avionics TSO for homebuilts
Also, I found this, which seems remarkably on-point: Airworthiness Evaluation of the Installation of IFR Equipment to Allow the Removal of the “VFR Only” Operating Condition from the Special Certificate of Airworthiness – Amateur-Built https://www.md-ra.com/docs/SI_500-024.pdf And that document incl...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: IFR avionics TSO for homebuilts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1057
Re: IFR avionics TSO for homebuilts
Does a homebuilt flying IFR require TSO'd GPS and other avionics? I'm leaning to yes, but I can't find a CARs reference. On the other hand, nothing on an amateur built needs to be TSO'd, so why would avionics? Any answers and associated regulatory reference appreciated. Installation of new parts ru...
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: Health & Fitness
- Topic: Most affordable CAME for Cat 1 Medical?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1280
Re: Most affordable CAME for Cat 1 Medical?
How much is being asked?
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:17 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Applying for PPL with expired Cat 1 medical?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1197
Re: Applying for PPL with expired Cat 1 medical?
Well, I just emailed TC licencing in my region and I got a reply (yes, I know, and on a Sunday too). It is as I said:
The OP is safe to apply for the PPL.Hello - yes we don’t downgrade a medical at licence time - it can only be done when the student goes for a medical.
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:33 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Applying for PPL with expired Cat 1 medical?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1197
Re: Applying for PPL with expired Cat 1 medical?
Your initial ADB will show the medical privileges you have on issue. In this case it will be Cat 3, so that is what the sticker photo in the medical section of the ADB will show. The initial ADB will show the medical certificate the applicant has on issue. Which is a Category 1. There is no such th...
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Applying for PPL with expired Cat 1 medical?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1197
Re: Applying for PPL with expired Cat 1 medical?
I got a cat 1 medical approx. 2 years ago which then expired about a year ago. This is not correct. A medical never, ever, ever, expires. You hold a category 1 medical unless/until it is revoked by the Minister (which for practical purposes, never happens) or you surrender it. A particular licence ...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:09 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Cessna 441 hard landing
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3359
Re: Cessna 441 hard landing
As an aside, the wingtip vortices are nicely visible in the dust clouds thrown up by the tires on the first and second contacts.
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: TC license authorization for a once off ferry of a Panama registered aircraft
- Replies: 8
- Views: 861
Re: TC license authorization for a once off ferry of a Panama registered aircraft
Does that mean you need both faa and Canadian licenses to cross the US/Canada border then in that plane? If you don't have a Panamanian licence then yes, you would need both national licences for a cross-border flight. Or, you have a crew of two, one with each licence, and switch PIC as you cross t...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: TC license authorization for a once off ferry of a Panama registered aircraft
- Replies: 8
- Views: 861
Re: TC license authorization for a once off ferry of a Panama registered aircraft
I think my original post was vague, its a Panama registered aircraft, currently in the US to be ferried to Canada. Do I need a validation from Panama or can the aircraft be flown as is outside of Panama? Assuming Panama is an ICAO member, then If it has a certificate of airworthiness and a continui...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 1:37 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
Re: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
I think we got here from someone saying that the OP should expect no flight school to want him as an experienced ME/IR instructor because it would put the ab-initio junior instructors' noses out of joint. If that was the position that any FTU took, they would be doing the OP a favour by not employin...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
Re: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
I couldn't disagree more strongly. The world is full of wildly successful unscrupulous businesses.
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
Re: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
What's possible in a realistic economic climate is paying instructors an above minimum wage salary, create a nice atmosphere with proper scheduling, and supporting them with student conflicts. Pay a bit more for experience. Students would have one main instructor, perhaps a couple other extra ones ...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
Re: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
True, but you need to give them something to keep them interested in working for low wages. I think you should treat both your instructors and your customers with respect, which means in the first case paying a decent rate, and in the second case, working hard to find the best possible instructors....
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
Re: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
True, but you need to give them something to keep them interested in working for low wages. I think you should treat both your instructors and your customers with respect, which means in the first case paying a decent rate, and in the second case, working hard to find the best possible instructors....
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:03 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:49 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2201
Re: Flight Instructing as a hobby/side-gig
So the benefit to a flight school of having someone long-term to only teach those courses can be outweighed by the negative impact on the other instructors. And there was I thinking flight schools were there to give the best service to their students, when all along it was about giving the best ser...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:26 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 4:29 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
Re: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
We should be thinking about the intersection of two spheres then, which (ignoring the the part that would be underground) for the example given is a big nearly semi-circle in a vertical plane, that loops up from a point on the ground 40NM NW of Calgary up to a height of nearly 40nm and back down to ...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 4:02 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
Re: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
I think digits_ did try to make that point.