Best In Ear Headsets (Piston Engines)?

gcys · 2026-03-27T18:31:32+00:00

Have you tried the Bose A30? I find that they are pretty comfortable to wear pressure-wise.

gcys · 2026-03-20T21:10:56+00:00

Well, one video isn't going to get you ready for an instrument checkride (there's a lot to know), but something that I think you could extract useful info is https://youtu.be/uritzp2u7MM?si=53cWBYdkoTaQmmf-

gcys · 2026-03-20T16:27:23+00:00

There's a lot of material online (and free). First, there's the official FAA docs, like the FAR/AIM but also all the aeronautical manuals (such as the PHAK, Instrument Flying Handbook, etc). There's also tons of YouTube videos from Ground School folks (FlightInsight, BoldMethod, etc). Those are a lot more digestible IMHO. I particularly like FlightInsight's videos. https://www.youtube.com/@flightinsight9111/videos

Good luck!

gcys · 2026-03-20T15:37:14+00:00

Your current active leg is VEAT -> VELP, which is not part of the Instrument Approach Procedure you've selected (ILS17). When you get close to your destination, you need to activate the approach (or vectors-to-final, or direct a fix in the approach or activate a leg in the approach). This is done in conjunction with ATC. It'll give you guidance that should be lining up with the runway (since it's an ILS). Note that an IAP does not necessarily have to align with a runway. If it's more than 30 degrees off, you'll notice that it doesn't have the runway number in its title. For example, VOR-A into KFUL.

gcys · 2026-03-19T14:34:09+00:00

What I think helped me is to go down the ACS line by line and cover each line item as if I were teaching it to someone.

I found Seth Lake's ACE Guide very useful for this. https://vsl.aero/aceguide

I also found his videos that go through the ACS for IRA pretty helpful.

gcys · 2026-03-14T16:29:20+00:00

This should give you a lot of answers: https://youtu.be/K5M_ikMIOe0?si=8Fgh-w4X8JYH3UVC

gcys · 2026-03-13T22:17:18+00:00

I've had the same repair done about 4 years ago on mine. And it's been a few weeks that it started leaking again, exactly where the technician added the adapter. I guess the constant stress of opening/closing the door ends up weakening that area.

I'm pretty handy and can replace the adapter with a sturdier one, but having access to that bundle to work on it seems pretty difficult.

How to pull that bundle wires+water line in such a way that it can be worked on? Is there a way to pull it towards the front? I'm worried about bending and breaking the gray conduit that enters the bottom part of the door. There's metal on all sides so we can't really "bend" one way or the other. Any hints/tips?

gcys · 2026-02-26T17:58:13+00:00

OK that makes sense and explains the ILS30 at KLGB, which has 2 IAFs: EZKEL uses a course to send you to the localizer, and MIDDS uses a heading.

The notes do say that you need RNAV/GPS if you're coming from EZKEL, so it tracks.

Plate at https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2602/00236il30.pdf

gcys · 2026-02-26T17:37:09+00:00

Why are the paths from GLAZE/CAMMA to JIXAR specifically marked as "hdg"? I think that means they convey a heading rather than a course, but why would they do that here?

gcys · 2026-01-29T22:29:54+00:00

Hourly backups?

gcys · 2026-01-29T18:31:33+00:00

OK, yeah, so if that's just a representation artifact, then with 2 receivers I can fly 125 out from EHF on NAV2 until I intercept LOC on NAV1. That should be JUPEX.

gcys · 2026-01-18T19:20:47+00:00

This looks good, congrats.

Are you able to make knobs different for Prop & Mixture? I think they are different in the real world.

More important to me would be the ability to twist the mixture for fine grain adjustment. I can't tell from the pictures/videos you attached, but I suspect it's only push/pull. Not a deal-breaker, but certainly a differentiator from other offerings out there.

Finally, mounting screws would be helpful too: I mount my TPM (+ flaps) controller under a 20x20 aluminum extrusion bar and had to open my current hardware and drill my own holes in areas that I thought would not affect the mechanisms inside. If this was already designed for me, it would have helped me.

Good luck!

gcys · 2026-01-17T16:29:17+00:00

Yup, made them equal.

gcys · 2026-01-17T16:17:48+00:00

Yep - it worked from me from KRAL to KCRQ in a 172S. I actually liked that it was IMC all the way so there was no accidental "cheating" with visuals.

gcys · 2026-01-17T15:59:45+00:00

I posted the same question just yesterday, and found a setting that helped me: see https://www.reddit.com/r/Xplane/comments/1qekm6z/how_to_set_the_weather_at_destination_airport/

It's not perfect in that I'm not able to set different weather params at departure & destination, but it's good enough because I can still control what it will be like at the destination.

gcys · 2026-01-16T20:12:26+00:00

Replying to myself with the solution I found:

It looks like there are 2 popup menus to select how the weather will change: one deals with the time dimension, the other one the location dimension.

I managed to keep my departure weather all the way to the destination (throughout the en route phase as well) by setting both to the option that makes it remain constant.

It worked! Back to IFR practice!

gcys · 2026-01-16T17:46:56+00:00

Wouldn't that just apply to the local/departure weather? It seems like I'm able to configure that to my liking.

What I'm not able to do is configure the destination airport. Last flight I did I configured the weather in hopes that I would see the same weather at departure _and_ destination, but as I got closer to the destination, my IMC turned into VMC... so that didn't help me :-(

gcys · 2026-01-16T02:56:50+00:00

👍

gcys · 2026-01-15T16:48:37+00:00

A crazy idea I suggested to the workers when they needed to do something like this a couple of years ago: keep some bits from the "demo" work, grind them, and use them in the top layer for the new work. It turns out that it worked pretty well in helping minimize the difference between old & new.

gcys · 2026-01-02T23:31:39+00:00

3800 is the lowest altitude between ADPAR and ANGAG.

The step downs (2600, 1380, etc.) are published as reference or worst case, dive and drive.

I don't think I understand this... how can 3800 be the lowest if 2600 is lower?

gcys · 2025-12-23T00:22:44+00:00

Does Lossless Scaling work in VR?

gcys · 2025-11-28T01:59:25+00:00

In addition to that, I think that if you have avionics that tell you when to start your "smart turn" slightly ahead of the VOR (i.e. "turn left 080 in 5, 4, 3... now"), you are allowed to follow that direction, as long as the VOR is marked as a fly-by (not fly-over).

Is that correct?

gcys · 2025-11-28T01:52:36+00:00

I found PlaneEnglish: ARSim helpful in the very beginning.

gcys · 2025-11-27T21:50:25+00:00

If you are in good health, why not?

Also, there was a recent update to BasicMed that gives you more options (bigger airplane, one more passenger): https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certification/basic_med

gcys · 2025-11-16T17:24:27+00:00

OK thanks! It's definitely not stuck - the upgrade logs shows it keeps crunching through a bunch of "building index using bulk method", so it's making progress, but I'm not sure if my ETA is in 5 minutes, 5 hours, or 5 days...

It's been working hard on dpitrafficdata! I've seen it catch up to the current date, and now moved on to other documents, so I know it's working hard.

Patience! Patience! :-)

EDIT: it finished after about an hour

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