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Connecting a Garmin Flight Stream to an iPad
It’s time to pick up your airplane with its new modern avionics package. The plane has been at the avionics shop for 3 months getting upgraded from all the old steam gauges, the trusty Garmin 530W, and the ancient autopilot that didn’t fly a glideslope well for the last 10 years. You’ve seen pictures of…
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Do LP Approaches Leave You Scratching Your Head?
We live in a day and age of amazing aviation technology. 20 years ago, GPS was brand new to the GA marketplace and Avidyne had a cutting edge full glass panel running on Windows ’98 technology. Garmin was still a year out from debuting the G1000. Fast forward to 2023. We have GPS approaches that…
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A Behind the Scenes Look at Ft. Worth Center
I recently got the privilege to go on a tour of the Ft. Worth Center facility. It was with our annual fly in group with Texas Top Aviation. The event was in Dallas, which made it very easy to get to the Ft. Worth Center facility by the DFW Airport. Pulling into the parking lot…
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Please Don’t Activate the Approach
I had someone tell me earlier this week that in order to best understand how to do a certain task, it helps to understand the logic behind how to do that task. I believe that is true in doing a lot of different tasks in the course of life, but especially true in learning how…
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Radial/DME Fixes
Lately, I’ve been hearing of a number of IFR clearances where the pilot receives a DME Fix off of a VOR Radial as part of the IFR routing, especially going back and forth between Austin and Dallas for low altitude airplanes. The initial panic sets in of, “Wait, what? You’re giving me a VOR radial? …
