Our local EAA is sponsoring a warbird weekend and we are running an hospitality centre…about
30 classic aircraft expected…905 684 9447 for further info.

in response to the gentleman who issued a scathing attack on younger CFI’s
and accused me of being one myself who provided bad information
regarding pop up’s in the chicago area, i am not the instructor you are
referring to. i often use pop ups in chicago and show my students how
when necessary to use them. also i agree with you that an instructor
needs to have a wealth of
aviation knowledge and good teaching ability.  i am fortunate that i have
always had a good ablitity to communicate, and teach.  i agree that this
doesn’t come to everyone.  when i said a young instructor is often maybe
even better than a much older one it is on the basis of motivation and
love for the occupation.  i cannot count the number of students who i
have helped to finish a private cert. or intrument rating who have come
from "experienced" older instructors who have burned out on the job and
are no longer providing training of the kind of quality all CFI should
give.  thank you for your time,

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David O. Corsi – sco…@orion.it.luc.edu, DaveCo…@aol.com
Certified Flight Instructor – Airplane, Instrument
Ground Instructor – Advanced, Instrument
Commercial Pilot – Single Engine Land, Instrument
      what good is it to fly … eh, a quoi bon l’enfant qui vient de naitre?
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The annual de Havilland Moth Rally takes place at Woburn Park,
Bedfordshire, UK, on 17/18 August. This is a super event in
idyllic surroundings when some 60+ Moths usually turn up.

The temporary aerodrome is *strictly* Prior Permission Only, and
usually only Moths or other interesting de Havilland aircraft
are accepted.

Visitors by surface transport are welcome, the usual admission
prices to Woburn Park apply (UKP5 per car last year). Admission
to Woburn Abbey itself is extra.

For further details please e-mail.

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Anyone interested in become a charter member of a new flying club at FDK
(Frederick, Maryland) please repond. We are looking for critical mass.

Mike James
Evenings: 301-662-9309

Captain Bob’s Page has moved to a new, faster server. The new URL is:

        http://www.bono.com

Bob Novak
b…@bono.com
homepage: http://www.bono.com

IS there any colleges for aviation career in ontario?

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Sorry guys, a VOR radial isn’t a GCc. It is a magnetic course. Need a
magnetic heading to stay on it. A GCc, by nature(i.e., spherical trig),
is a constant curve (i.e., constantly changing mag course), albeit, on
short legs it would be hard to tell the difference.

R.A.

Though he has his magnetic courses and headings a little mixed up, Robert
Allardyce has the right idea. If you extend a VOR radial, say 400 miles,
you will find that, due to magnetic variation, a varying mag heading would
be required to maintain a centered CDI if it were possible to fly a single
VOR radial for 400 miles. This radial would describe a straight line over
the suface of the earth, but it would not be a great circle course.

Now, for example, if I depart IND to fly to DEN using the GPS in the
"direct" mode with that mode engaged upon departing IND, and the
autopilot is immediately coupled and left to fly the aircraft
uninterrupted to DEN based upon headings calculate by the GPS, a
great circle route will result. This is due to the fact that we’re not
stuck with a straight line drawn from IND to DEN as if we had followed
a VOR radial the whole way. Also, the GPS uses great circle
routes as they are the most direct, therefore the most efficient. Upon
observation of the aircraft heading as it proceeds along this route, it
is readily apparent that the aircraft is flying what is a long
curve (to our flat map oriented minds, anyway). If you were to plot the actual ground track, it would, in fact, be
a curved line accross the map.

Remember this: A great circle route drawn on a chart will look to
you like a curve and a straight line drawn on a (sectional or WAC) chart
is not really the most direct route from "A" to "B".

Don

Don: page 56 of the Jeppesen Professional CR Computer Instruction Book
— DEFINITIONS — Course = "Intended direction or path of travel over
surface of the earth with respect to north." In the case of a VOR leg,
"intended" is the operational word. While a "heading" " … is any
direction in which the longitudinal axis of the aircraft is pointed,
with respect to north" (re: Jeppesen), it also means the correction one
ends up with after accounting for the wind (if any). If you have an old
Weems Plotter you will note the sequence to follow to come up with an
actual compass reading to adhere to after takeoff is printed on it so
guys like me (an attention span much smaller than the size of my
wristwatch) can refresh each time we do a flight plan.

All the best,

RA

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Hangar < 1K ]

Airship manufacturing company needs urgently big (45 ft. tall)
hangar for rent in California or
Nevada.
We need hangar for an inflation of the airship’s envelope and
some tests.  
Term of rent — August only.

Please, help

Eugene

euge…@adnc.com
tel. 619-505-9570,
fax 619-696-9273