Bob Tait
Bob Tait
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Circling vs straight in minima

Thanks for your question Linc. It's a good one and it relates to an area that is often misunderstood. Actually I have often said that on a SI (straig...

8 years ago
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AWIS by phone

AIP ENR 1.5 para 5.3.2 says that you can subtract 100 feet from the minima only if the box is shaded and the QNH is available from an APPROVED source....

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CPL Performance exam workbook

In the CASA exam you will be provided with the CASA exam workbook. The 'P' charts and centre of gravity envelope are contained in that document along...

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ERSA

Thanks for that John. Those ICAO codes are very useful. They aught to be published in ERSA in that format.

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CAO 48.1 2013 Instrument practice question - error or misunderstanding?

OK Bouch, it looks like that question has fallen victim to multiple attempts by multiple persons to fathom the mysteries of 48.1. We have had a rewri...

8 years ago
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RPL/PPL Volume 2 - Operational Met Question 14 help please

According to my copy of the AIP, Bairnsdale is a Cat D aerodrome (AIP GEN 3.5 para 16. Once you know that, if you look back to GEN 3.5 para 3.4.3 i...

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Human Factors sleep cycles

It all depends on whether you classify REM (rapid eye movement) as a separate stage of the sleep cycle or as a characteristic of stage 4 sleep. The r...

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cruising level

None of those answer choices is correct. AIP ENR 1.7 tells you all about altimetry, in particular paragraph 2 on altimeter setting rules. On descent...

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cruising level

Operation in the no circling area is not permitted when the conditions are below VMC. That is visibility below 5000m. If VMC do exist (visibility 50...

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cruising level

I agree, it would be A040.

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RVR

If an aerodrome has an RVR facility it most certainly has a control tower. So you wouldn't be using a forecast QNH for either a TAF or an ARFOR, you ...

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RVR

Hi Linc Question 1. I don't know where you got RVR is "Required Visibility" from. RVR is Runway Visual Range and it applies only to the pilots of a...

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Q7, review set 4 E-Text

The commencement of the 3° approach path is 2.9nm before BLZSF. Since BLZSF is 5nm from the threshold, that makes the commencement of the 3° approach...

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ETAS IN CFPA

It is always more accurate to use effective TAS if you are using a Jep computer. However, except for very strong cross wind components, it usually ma...

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Online Exam with AIP Enroute

It looks like the pre-March reference was not altered in the May 2017 version but was altered in the August 2017 version.

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