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I want to understand thunderstorms better. I stared learning about limitations of storm scopes which led me to more insights. Before  you attempt to fly close to, or through a front, learn about your front. Some fronts you can safely fly through, some you cannot. Thunder cheat sheet Preflight Tools Radar - locate active fronts, size, and direction of movement Sigmets - If your front is in a convective sigmet, you probably cannot fly through it. Airmets you generally can. Lightning - Look at  lightningmaps.org  to see how much "in past hour" and 'current" lightning there is. If there are no strikes or few strikes, even if you see heavy or severe precip, it's just lots of water, not much turbulence, likely not a powerful storm. Infrared Satellite  -  wunderground.com  see how cold the reflection is. If temperature is -70, it's a very vertical storm, probably cannot fly through it. NOAA soundings - http://rucsoundings.noaa.gov/  to le...

I brief the approach in the order I will fly it. First the “check and forget” items Avionics setup Next I highlight important bits on the plate Next look at the step-down fixes Study final segment and runway “sight picture”, determine VDP Review airplane configurations needed One-time verify and forget (2 items) Verify Plate accuracy (airport, runway, published date) Verify minimums and notes (can you even fly it?) Avionics Setup (instrument panel flow clockwise) Correct altimeter settings on all altimeters Check all Garmin waypoints agree with plate Tower frequency & navaid frequency Approach course Set Highlight high alert items on plate (foreflight has highlighter built in) (4 items) Final approach course on plate MAP on diagram First segment of Missed Approach procedure (ie: climbing right to 3000') MDA/DH of category (B for SR22) *Localizer / navaid frequency on plate (*ILS ONLY) Brief the flight i...

I believe non-precision approaches are the most difficult and dangerous segment of a flight, especially at night to an untowered airport with a short runway.  I will talk about A/P (autopilot) coupled approaches only here, we already know how to hand fly them.   For example look at   KHTO RNAV 10 . The final segment is just 2.4nm from threshold and starts 805' agl. If weather is to minimums as is frequent (evening ocean haze) you must dive aggressively at LAZYE to the MDA or you quickly find yourself looking straight down at runway lights, still 500' agl. Hand-flying vs autopilot coupled non-precision approaches I believe autopilot coupled approaches are more difficult than hand flown approaches because you should not start using automation until you've mastered hand flying. For this reason, they are also more professional and safer if done correctly . And for the same reason, they can be extremely dangerous if used by inexperienced pilot as a crutch . Only use a...

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Hypothetical example, you are moving in July 9th. Monthly rent is $5000. What's wrong with this math? Tenant days are July 9 to 31. 31-9 = 22, so 22 days. $5000 * (22/31) = $ 3548 This is wrong. Proof if you move in on the 1st the math would show 30/31 days. It's actually 31/31 days. if you move 31st the math would show 0 days. really, it's still 1 day remaining or 1/31. The correct formula is to offset the day by -1 first. You're counting 0..30 instead of 1..31. monthly_rent * ((day_of_month - 1) / days_in_month) So now it's: 8 to 31, 23 days $5000 * (23/31) = $ 3710 You can save $162 or 1/31 of the monthly rent if your landlord can't do math. I looked at various websites on prorated rent calculation they all do it like this, totally incorrectly. i couldn't find one that does it correctly. Why does this work? July 1st is the " first day of the month ". For rent calculations we want to ask " h...

I toured an FAA approved sim in Manhattan, I think it's the only one in city. Located in shared work space at 99 Madison Ave @ East 29th.  I know the pilot who set this facility up, Jobe Taylor. Jobe did this spare time out of love for aviation. He's not doing it for profit, but hopes it can pay for itself. This is a real jewel for NYC based pilots. Jobe also run Manhattan Flying Club. The sim is super high tech, uses X-Plane with two large touch screens for avionics. He set up an G2 SR22 environment for me with full simulation of MFD, PFD, A/P, dual 430's, transponder, everything identical to actual plane! The sim is hooked up to live ATC via Pilot Edge. I flew an ILS approach from KSMO to KVNY down to minimums. The socal controller was very professional, gave me the typical departure to intercept LAX radial, fly outbound on assigned heading,. radar vectors for SMO, then vectors for the ILS. He read the initial clearance so fast I had to ask him to repeat one...

This short guide explains what to do and not to do flying a real ILS approach in an SR22. We do not cover Garmin programming here, just plane configuration. First a critical philosophy for all ILS approaches: When flying to real minimums, you're not flying the plane to land, you're flying to go missed, in your head, and in configuration. 30 seconds to before glide slope intercept: 50% flaps, 19" MP, reduce to final approach speed 105ias. At glide slope intercept reduce to 13" MP for most SR22 (105ias). No configuration changes AT ALL between GS Intercept and DH! 100' before minimums, disconnect A/P and hand-fly. At minimums: pitch up, mixture and throttle full forward, boost on, on positive climb rate flaps go up. OR, If able to land, full flaps when RUNWAY ENVIRONMENT IN SIGHT. Flaps take 3s from 50% to 100%.  Descending from 200' AGL to flare height takes at least 24 seconds, an eternity of time to SAFELY make flap configuration change. ...