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Your post makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm guessing liberal politics is your expertise. This is a pilots forum. Care to contribute? Oh and the seatbelt sign is off. So feel free to get up and move to another country!!!

LogTen Pro, the electronic logbook I use, has a feature where you can plot your flights in Google Earth. I played with it last night for the first time and it was pretty neat. Makes it easy to see why my last two Mooneys have been turbos.

Very stupid decision. I really wish our airplanes had in the ops limits a max crosswind for dry and wet conditions like all the military aircraft have. The whole max demonstrated really tells you nothing with regards to what the actual plane can do. I agree with we need to stop sugar coating stupid mistakes. If a student came to me and said he was going to takeoff with those sorts of winds he/she would be yelled at, chastised, and forced to give a brief to all the other students as to why his thought process is flawed. It's actions like this that make it easy for people to have a negative opinion of GA and that is unacceptable. What if because of his stupid actions he crashed into a car and killed another family. Actions like this impact us all. I feel bad for the passengers. Truly a tragic preventable loss of life. Oh and if anyone on here gets their feelings hurt.....look up and fill out a hurt feelings report......cause I don't care. Ray Kelly P.S. if I ever do something as stupid as this which results in a crash feel free to comment

You've got to wonder what was just so pressing back home? Sometimes you've got got to tell yourself "No".

3 NM/1000ft = 18/1 You sure you want to plan for that?

As I'm sure Gary knows (and positive Byron knows), aircraft weight has no significant bearing on Glide Ratio. The heavier you are, the faster you fly to hold the AOA for Max L/D. You'll go faster and descend faster, but the ratio is the same.

Actually, I am not so sure you get as many direct routes out in the Southwest of the USA when IFR as you do in the mid-section of the country, especially at non-O2 altitudes. There is lots of military airspace here...and a few tethered balloons that go to 14k or so...so most typically one gets airway routings when IFR. For example, IFR generally won't let you fly thru MOAs even if they aren't active. One good thing about some of the IFR low altitude airways in the Southwest is that they allow you to avoid big rocks and generally seem to follow near some of the interstates (but not the part of V94 from SSO to TFD or GBN to BLH or along V64 just west of TRM). OTOH, most of the time it is VFR here so you get lots of desert to look at! Btw, if it is your first time to Southern California (in a plane with you at the controls), you can expect it to be somewhat busy on the freqs and lots of frequency changes in rapid order. KSNA has a mix of GA, corporate, and airline traffic...but SoCal Approach and the SNA tower do a marvelous job. If you were to get any IMC at all in the Southwest, it would likely be a coastal marine layer at KSNA in the morning hours. On the other hand, there are many days in SoCal when the haze is so thick you'd swear it was IMC...!

Found this on the Sky Tec page. FYI http://www.skytecair.com/Too_Fast.htm

Here's the link that works... http://ssa.org/sport/wheretofly.asp Sorry