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Archive for January, 2012

Sectional and Terminal Area Charts

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Foreflight and other iPad apps are great for showing your route on a sectional chart. However, they do not include the entire sectional. This can be problematic when, for example, transiting the Class B airspace over LAX using the Mini-Route. The instructions for each of the routes through the Class B airspace are printed on [...]

Reading the AIM on your iPad/iPhone

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

As mentioned in other posts, the AIM is useful for finding out all kinds of things about flying. It is not regulatory per se but much of the content involves explanation of the regulations. As they say in the Preface, “This manual is designed to provide the aviation community with basic flight information and ATC [...]

Morse Code

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Tune, Identify, Twist That’s how you change to a new VOR and fly a new heading. Newer radios make the Identify part easy by displaying the identifier right on the radio. Old school pilots actually had to learn Morse Code to get their radio license. Nowadays, it’s not particularly useful. But if you want to [...]


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