What a bummer! 1. There is nothing you can do about VOR scalloping. Change of height wont help. Just maintain heading and wait until it settles ...
Andrew That's fantastic news mate! What a great feeling to finish all exams at last. It's like that wonderful feeling you get when you stop hitti...
Gidday Brook This is a very common area of confusion with the requirements for recency. [i]CAO 40.3.1.11.2[/i] gives the minimum recency required ...
Gidday Eddie Welcome to OZ! The current version of ERSA gives the rated coverage of the Coff's NDB as 70 nm by day over land. If you are getting ...
According to my research some traces of alcohol can remain in the brain cells for up to 24 hours after heavy drinking. See my HPL book Page 2.2 secon...
Gidday Colin There is no reason why you couldn't descend to the lower LSALT or Grid lowest safe in an attempt to become visual and continue with a ...
The converging 10.3° lines are used when the destination has a ground-based aid such as ADF or VOR. Ground aids are of no concern to RNAV GNSS recei...
The ISA temperature lapse rate is 2° per 1000 feet of height [i]increase[/i]. That means it must be 1° per 500 feet of height [i]increase[/i]. The...
Yes, downwind reports are now required at all CTRs. That question was originally written for the old GAAP aerodromes. I have amended it in the curre...
The BOM Aviation Meteorology on pages 20-21 gives a summary of cloud types that includes most likely icing to be encountered in various cloud types. ...
Thanks for your feed-back Bazzie. I am of course, very interested in your comments. I am very interested in hearing from others who might have had a...
Minimum sector altitude is correct. It used to be called minimum safe altitude in the Airservices documents but that has changed to minimum sector al...
Yes, that reference does clearly state that, if HIAL is not available, the addition of the 900 m applies only to the LOC approach. It used to say tha...
The key to this question is to understand that dew point temperature itself lapses with increased height [or more correctly with dropping pressure]. ...
I have just added another paragraph to Page 7.5 in the Aerodynamics book. It deals with the effect [advantage] of turbocharging when flying for range...