The "Landing" reminds me of a maneuver I had to do on my PPL Checkride. I was asked to come in 100 ft. over a 50 ft. obstruction at the threshold and yet put...
Terrible tragedy. The newspaper reports are talking about an "automatic" message indicating a power loss. Does anyone know what this is? Is this standard on...
... Yup -- 2132 feet. The available landing distance used to be about 1600 feet because of a displaced threshold. Here is an old picture I found online:...
... Interesting. I take it you got the special training to land there? Was it hard to learn that approach? (That airport is rather famous; I've seen ...
Ken Hornstein
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Jun 1, 2009 3:23 pm
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... You know, I don't think I've ever actually USED an ADF successfully. It was always the case that either the ADF was inoperative, or the NDB was. Okay, I...
Ken Hornstein
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Jun 1, 2009 3:33 pm
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I had to do a couple of NDB approaches (the hard way) at Shannon for my instrument checkride, and that was the last official act of any ADF I've owned. And I'm...
Sounds like an airport to avoid. I know that mountain airports are often the same. Go arounds aren't prohibited at lots of mountain airports, they are just...
... Exactly. Though, I am not (yet?) certified. ... It is certainly a challenge, but if you are up on your short field operations (especially airspeed...
We use the ADF all the way across the midwest - annually when we go to Iowa for Antique Airplane Association. They make a lot of use of NDB's out there it...
The newspaper reports are talking about an "automatic" ... Last futile act of the Energizer Bunny. Mike Coster [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Has anyone identified SBH? ... From: LeRoy Froom <lfroom@...> Subject: [dcpilots] Re: Fw: B: Fwd: Fw: A good example of when to abort and go around To:...
I have done the same thing. Once you get west of the Mississippi, an ADF is not a bad thing to have. It's also part of the "fine art" of flying that...
... I can't speak to how hard it is for instrument approaches (I know everyone who has an instrument rating sure does seem to bitch about them), but I can't...
Ken Hornstein
kenh@...
Jun 2, 2009 2:54 am
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There is a reason why they keep breaking and not getting fixed. The FAA won't fix them anymore. They've decided that it makes no sense to keep an NDB...
As Steve said, the FAA isn't repairing NDBs anymore. COGAN at Winchester had its antenna pole fall down in a storm a couple years ago for example, was NOTAMed...
I have a friend who will be vacationing in OC later this month and he asked me about taking golf lessons in OC as he is a real beginner who wants to learn...
Even further, the FAA wants to eventually decommission VOR's as well when ADS-B matures - sometime in the 2020-30 timeframe. CA ... [Non-text portions of this...
Part of the problem is that they can't maintain some of this stuff anymore-the hardware isn't supported and in a lot of cases parts are pretty tough. Some VOR...
Yup. GPS is great and the integration with a database of fixes and airports in all modern GPS units makes it even more useful. NDB's are very old tech and...
And how long can you expect the US taxpayer to maintain a 1930's technology for a dwindling percentage of a dwindiling pilot population? Same thing with...
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