McMooney

if only i had a plane

thinking i would've kept the loran, just to say i had one 8)

have a trip to florida coming up next week, think i'll try some altitude flying, haven't been above 8000ish feet in a while

This guy owns a Mooney 8)

i use the sim at the local airports for currency, use msfs 2024 at home

give up guys, obviously a troll

give up guys, obviously a troll

Grr, this sux for my GP subscription but i can now switch to jepp and buy databases for my gns480 and gnc355. still about a 200$ a year increase, not much in aviation dollars i guess

hey Mooneyspace, what is the major diff between garmin and jepp database updates? basically if i switch my new gnc355 to use jepp navdata is there anything important i'm losing. so the story, installed a gns480 with the intention of just using it as comm/nav but when looking at the jepp site, i noticed the db updates for jepp aren't much more expensive than my current gamin sub. as this is for my navigators, i just can't see anything critical i'll be losing

man no one has even mentioned dme arcs in years. Heck even the approach i flew for my checkride is now gone

bah, TOGA omg hehe, let me ask brittain to add that 8). actually, i've never bothered to use the autopilot while IFR, what is this TOGA of which you speak??? after trying to reread this whole thread, it amazes me how something that started with a CSV has gone so far left

my new gnc355a shutoff while i was on approach to kgpt, full ifr, pitch black over the ocean, scared the shit out of me, glad i had the tablet at that moment.

I had both, i didn't change anything, it was already connected to the cdi/converter when i got it. okay full confession, the gpss converter was flakey, i belive something was wrong with it but when nit worked it was great. the cdi deviations are what i used most, it was wonderful. i'm sad to replace it, PC being always on made flying easy. system even worked without vacuum/engine power, long as the engine was windmilling, all good. I'm not sure why whoever owns brittain canned the system, the thing is super reliable, inexpensive and could've been made to do everything the garmin/aerocruze/stc does now. Hmm, now that i think about it, the inexpensive part is probably what got the system canned

yes, it'll work as long as they connect it to the same cdi or to a gpss converter, mine followed the pink line like it was on rails before i removed it.

Hmm, that's about when I find it most useful. Georeferenced approach plates are awesome. I find smart charts to be okay, bit more useful for arrival and departure procedures. Nothing wrong with them but the standard approach plate has everything on one screen.