Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials revisited

2007-01-31 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: BTW, it doesn't necessarily require you to hold an IFR rating, the same counts for VFR flights as well as long as you don't have known terrain in sight,^ 's/known/familiar/g' Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials revisited

2007-01-30 Thread John Denker
On 01/29/2007 11:01 PM, Dave Perry wrote: This is exactly the situation that John Denker maintained was an exception to the rule report position as the radial from the station and DME distance. This pilot agreed with John. Actually I have changed my mind about this. A couple of days ago I

[Flightgear-devel] radials revisited

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Perry
I had not planned to comment again on this issue. But today, I received an AOPA e-mail that included a link to NTSB accident report Number: DEN04FA043 concerning a FATAL accident involving a Cessna 206 on a flight from Jeffco (KBJC) to just beyond the Medicine Bow VOR, where it crashed into a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
among other FAA documents which use the phrase inbound radial without the slightest hesitation. There are many other instances where you need to know one thing when taking the written test, and need to know something quite different for flying in the real world. Unless otherwise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-04 Thread John Denker
On 01/04/2007 04:28 AM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Well - at least on the eastern side of the atlantic, where I do instrument flights in real world, the 090 radial is always EAST of the station, the 270 radial is WEST of the station. A controller advice proceed on radial 090 or intercept radial

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-04 Thread Dave Perry
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:45 -0500, John Denker wrote: Bottom line: -- When specifying pointlike positions, radials are rays i.e. half-lines radiating /from/ the station. -- When specifying course lines, radials are full lines. OK, which is it? My initial *correction* was to 1) in this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
On 01/03/2007 09:07 PM, Dave Perry wrote: This may seem a nit. I had the following quote drilled into my mind by Don Berman in one of his well know Instrument Written Ground School seminars. Radials eminate from the station; direction of flight has nothing to do with location. 1)