Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
...managing charts, plates and radios for whatever task is coming up next. The two types of traffic really do not mix! Flying at higher altitudes with GPS derived altitude is a total c...Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
I'm using WingX which shows your current AGL based on your GPS and it's terrain info. I tend to trust it more than the altimeter which never seems to agree with field ele...Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
...e air & able to receive transmissions you should set the altimeter to the nearest altimeter station within 100 miles, but I wasn't sure the GPS was accurate enough on the gr...Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
That's straight forward, but, if you are in the middle of nowhere and cannot get the local altimeter setting before taking off, is it OK / sufficient to use the GPS altitude to set your altimeter prior to takeoff?Comment on ""Black Out" Landings (When to flare if landing in the Dark)"
Only one time I flew in strong headwind with my father(!!!) on board in late evening. On the end of our trip showed me the GPS and the airport I saw when we were up it. 1000ft ov...Comment on ""Black Out" Landings (When to flare if landing in the Dark)"
...rint out a picture (eg Satellite view) of where that unmarked landing field was. I've learned the hard way before that finding a place by GPS coordinates alone can be toug...Comment on "Papalotzin the movie- Following Monarch Butterflies on their thousand miles migration in a trike"
...generations of the butterfly!!! It just blows me away that something so small can fly such long distances and navigate better than me with GPS, pick up strong wind currents...Comment on "Ken Brock Freedom Fly-In El Mirage CA Sept 27-29, 2013"
...tor of ElMirage on a sectional (actually a route form nearby Palmdale KPMD class D to middle of El Mirage- which is just a GPS coordinate. This is NOT the GPS coordinates for Flying J)....