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The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

Low calorie attack from the Heartland
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scoolbubba said:
He doesn’t know if you’re in the clouds or not.
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Oddly enough, the next day coming into to Oceana, we were given a very precise vector for weather. It was almost prescient... like "you actualy DO know where the clouds are!". They were really helpful without me even needing to ask. It was a pleasant surprise.

Like I said... harrowing. :cool:
 
ChuckMK23

ChuckMK23

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sevenhelmet said:
Oddly enough, the next day coming into to Oceana, we were given a very precise vector for weather. It was almost prescient... like "you actualy DO know where the clouds are!". They were really helpful without me even needing to ask. It was a pleasant surprise.

Like I said... harrowing. :cool:
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Can your radar pick up precip? Do you guys ever use ADS-B IN - like a Stratus device to get wx/traffic/gps ??
 
ChuckMK23

ChuckMK23

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Seriously if I was a Hornet/Rhino driver on a CONUS XC I would have an iPad, ForeFlight, and a $500 suction cup ADS-B/GPS/AHRS device suction cupped on interior of canopy. Get a few devices funded from officers Mess. Huge improvement in safety right there. Heck in a pinch you can fly WAAS RNAV approaches and not be like that poor dude that was emergency fuel asking some controller for an ASR to save his butt.
 
wlawr005

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ChuckMK23 said:
Seriously if I was a Hornet/Rhino driver on a CONUS XC I would have an iPad, ForeFlight, and a $500 suction cup ADS-B/GPS/AHRS device suction cupped on interior of canopy. Get a few devices funded from officers Mess. Huge improvement in safety right there. Heck in a pinch you can fly WAAS RNAV approaches and not be like that poor dude that was emergency fuel asking some controller for an ASR to save his butt.
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Super Hornet canopy sometimes precludes and adequate GPS signal. I do have Garmin Pilot, but mostly for preflight planning and inflight changes. Supers also have RNAV, lateral navigation only though.

It's not usually that big of a deal. Plenty of people have gotten by with a TACAN needle and a chart. Or good JMPS planning.
 
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wlawr005 said:
Super Hornet canopy sometimes precludes and adequate GPS signal. I do have Garmin Pilot, but mostly for preflight planning and inflight changes. Supers also have RNAV, lateral navigation only though.

It's not usually that big of a deal. Plenty of people have gotten by with a TACAN needle and a chart. Or good JMPS planning.
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But can they get by without ILS?

<Fire in the hole!>
 
Python

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ChuckMK23 said:
Seriously if I was a Hornet/Rhino driver on a CONUS XC I would have an iPad, ForeFlight, and a $500 suction cup ADS-B/GPS/AHRS device suction cupped on interior of canopy. Get a few devices funded from officers Mess. Huge improvement in safety right there. Heck in a pinch you can fly WAAS RNAV approaches and not be like that poor dude that was emergency fuel asking some controller for an ASR to save his butt.
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GPS signal doesn’t really get through in the Rhino canopy. Better luck in the Hornet. Rhino has RNAV and nonprecision GPS approaches. And the radar does a good job of finding other planes so that fills the role of TCAS. I definitely brought WingX Pro 7 on my device for pubs purposes on every flight.

That being said, I do feel tacair as a whole is massively behind the rest of the Aviation world when it comes to navigation avionics.
 
sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

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ChuckMK23 said:
I just bought 5 of these for our club fleet - this receiver is that good.
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Sanders was using those in their fleet when I did my ATP a few weeks ago. It's a great SA enhancing tool. I can't help but wonder if it would work under a Rhino canopy though. We do have squadron iPads with WingX Pro, and I use my personal iPad with Foreflight on the road, which is great, especially when combined with RNAV in the jet. It's a semi-bastardized "FMS lite", but it's a far cry from the old days of 2 feet of cockpit with 8 feet of chart.
 
Jim123

Jim123

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Reception or not, I wonder if that's a 7G suction cup or if you guys have a way to otherwise secure it inside the cockpit.
 
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