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 friendl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials revisited

2007-01-31 Thread Martin Spott
Hi David, Dave Perry wrote: > 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 [...] Thanks a lot for carrying the report to this list in such detail. Personally

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 a

[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 moun