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Forum: Tech Log
24th Oct 2006, 15:23
Replies: 0
Views: 1,722
Posted By greengage22

Max Total Windspeed Limit - Light Aircraft

Certain types of light aircraft have a max windspeed limit. Not a max crosswind limit - I can understand that - but a total windspeed limit.

If you want an example, the Grob 109B's max windspeed...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
26th Jul 2006, 19:55
Replies: 64
Views: 6,102
Posted By greengage22

So what you are saying, in effect, Keygrip, is...

So what you are saying, in effect, Keygrip, is that:
1) OAT has a management setup which is flexible enough to change their mind,
and
2) professional enough not to operate outside the graph....
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
11th Apr 2006, 09:07
Replies: 7
Views: 1,291
Posted By greengage22

OAT's own website is the best guide. It is...

OAT's own website is the best guide. It is working again now. One thread on your question is :

http://www.oxfordaviation.net/Forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&ARCHIVEVIEW=&TOPIC_ID=2617

but there...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
13th Jan 2006, 12:45
Replies: 12
Views: 987
Posted By greengage22

Re: Gen Nav

Are we quite sure that that was the question? Someone who sat the GN exam yesterday told me that he remembered the question as: How many small circles can be drawn through 2 points on the earth's...
Forum: Tech Log
20th Jun 2005, 18:58
Replies: 6
Views: 33,237
Posted By greengage22

I seem to remember once being told that gross is...

I seem to remember once being told that gross is what you expect to see from an average aircraft of your type, on an average day, with reactions from an average pilot.

Net is those conditions...
Forum: Questions
22nd Jun 2003, 21:14
Replies: 4
Views: 785
Posted By greengage22

UK AIP Aerodrome Entry Decode

In the 'Aerodromes' section of the UK AIP, for most of the fairly major airports, there is an entry at the start of each airport listing:"Elevation and Reference Temperature".

What's "Reference...
Forum: Questions
20th Mar 2003, 15:33
Replies: 4
Views: 24,161
Posted By greengage22

Thanks very much, 4PON4PIN. Very helpful

Thanks very much, 4PON4PIN. Very helpful
Forum: Questions
20th Mar 2003, 12:05
Replies: 4
Views: 24,161
Posted By greengage22

Thanks for responding, 411A, but I'm not sure...

Thanks for responding, 411A, but I'm not sure that I've really understood your reply.

Do you meand that the 'island reserve' fuel is the extra 15 mins hold fuel or is the 2 hrs cruise fuel? And...
Forum: Questions
18th Mar 2003, 13:56
Replies: 4
Views: 24,161
Posted By greengage22

Minimum Fuel Required - No Destination Alternate / 'Isolated Airfield'

JAR-OPS makes a distinction between the 'no destination alternate' case and the 'isolated airfield' case and I don't understand the difference. Can anybody help?

IEM OPS1.255 states that normal...
Forum: Tech Log
6th Mar 2003, 08:18
Replies: 29
Views: 7,199
Posted By greengage22

Why do you need to know, unless you're an...

Why do you need to know, unless you're an aerodynamicist? Mach crit has always struck me as useless information. What a pilot needs to know is limiting Mach No, or MMO, which is a very different...
Forum: Questions
4th Mar 2003, 07:30
Replies: 9
Views: 1,781
Posted By greengage22

Somebody did tell me once (but I'm not sure if...

Somebody did tell me once (but I'm not sure if it's true, and I'd like to have it confirmed) that the wheel castoring could be fed from the navigator's Doppler drift, making it fully automatic.
...
Forum: Tech Log
26th Feb 2003, 12:44
Replies: 9
Views: 4,904
Posted By greengage22

How about when, from the critical point, the ISA...

How about when, from the critical point, the ISA deviation for the onward route is signifcantly different from the return route? In warm air, TAS is higher and fuel flow lower.
Forum: Tech Log
26th Feb 2003, 09:57
Replies: 15
Views: 2,507
Posted By greengage22

Turn Gyro Axis

This might seem a pretty pointless and academic question with not much relationship to being a practical pilot, but the JAA ask it as an ATPL exam question anyway and I’d like to know if anyone can...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
13th Dec 2002, 18:10
Replies: 34
Views: 3,260
Posted By greengage22

With a name a like 'levelhead' and a title like...

With a name a like 'levelhead' and a title like 'the balanced view' he sounds so reasonable, but the bottom line is obvious - he is clearly an employee of WMU. But what is he saying?

If the...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
7th Nov 2002, 07:41
Replies: 21
Views: 2,763
Posted By greengage22

I just thought that you might like to look at...

I just thought that you might like to look at this reply which I saw on the Oxford website from one of the instructors in response to a student asking much the same question.

"The best advice on...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
7th Nov 2002, 07:31
Replies: 34
Views: 3,260
Posted By greengage22

Could I just point out that there might be less...

Could I just point out that there might be less rumour about if the management were to provide more hard facts?
Forum: Tech Log
27th Sep 2002, 19:40
Replies: 5
Views: 10,417
Posted By greengage22

How long does an IRS take to align?

This is really addressed specifically at operators of the Boeing 737-400, but I can't imagine that the B747, 757/767, or 777 are very different. Airbus might be.

There is a JAA exam question...
Forum: Tech Log
3rd Sep 2002, 08:26
Replies: 14
Views: 1,528
Posted By greengage22

Thanks, Genghis (and everybody else), for your...

Thanks, Genghis (and everybody else), for your replies.

Very helpful.
Forum: Tech Log
1st Sep 2002, 19:51
Replies: 14
Views: 1,528
Posted By greengage22

What, even for a mountain walker? Do you...

What, even for a mountain walker?

Do you have any sources for this?

I'm not suspicious: you obviously know what you're talking about.

I'd just like to research it further.
Forum: Tech Log
1st Sep 2002, 17:38
Replies: 14
Views: 1,528
Posted By greengage22

How do hand-held GPSs know which way they’re pointing?

Many stand-alone hand-held GPSs (ie, those used by mountain walkers, or in light GA) give you a left/right steer to a waypoint.

I understand how GPS works out its present position. And I don’t...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
5th Aug 2002, 18:42
Replies: 9
Views: 1,299
Posted By greengage22

Ginslinger, I don't know what's going at...

Ginslinger,

I don't know what's going at Oxford, either, but it does occur to me that even my local branch of Sketchley's dry cleaners is short-staffed at present (in common with virtually every...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
1st Jul 2002, 20:50
Replies: 33
Views: 5,210
Posted By greengage22

This all seems a bit startling. West Michigan...

This all seems a bit startling. West Michigan University's standards appeared very respectable. After all, it was one of the 3 colleges that BA used, up till Sep 11, when BA stopped cadetships. ...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
17th May 2002, 13:01
Replies: 24
Views: 3,590
Posted By greengage22

Jocko, how do you "live off a name"? By GETTING...

Jocko, how do you "live off a name"? By GETTING a bloody name in the first place, of course!!!!! Yours is the most specious argument I have heard. People want to go to OAT because it's good. If...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
6th May 2002, 13:32
Replies: 15
Views: 3,245
Posted By greengage22

The nearest you'll find to "The ATPL JAR"...

The nearest you'll find to "The ATPL JAR" questionnaire, as you put it, is the Oxford feedback. Most people who have used it would confirm, I'm sure, that it's about as close as you can get to the...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
11th Apr 2002, 19:40
Replies: 3
Views: 972
Posted By greengage22

Oxford-Jeppesen are truly marvellous. They don't...

Oxford-Jeppesen are truly marvellous. They don't come cheap, but they are the business. I can't comment about any other school's, because I've never used another schools, but Oxford are definitely...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
5th Apr 2002, 08:04
Replies: 41
Views: 6,541
Posted By greengage22

I agree. It's also prone to misuse. There is a...

I agree. It's also prone to misuse. There is a lot of competition out there amongst the flying schools.

It's just as well you didn't include Bournemouth amongst your possible schools or Send...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
17th Mar 2002, 01:13
Replies: 10
Views: 1,380
Posted By greengage22

Post There are 3 types of document:. .. .1: En route...

There are 3 types of document:. .. .1: En route charts (or rad navs, if you prefer). .. .2: Flight information books. .. .3: SIDs, STARs, and approach plates.. .. .Of these, there is no question...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
26th Feb 2002, 20:06
Replies: 24
Views: 1,624
Posted By greengage22

Post It's time, as much as anything, that you save by...

It's time, as much as anything, that you save by going through a residential course. The flying success rate is pretty much the same anywhere, but the ground school is not.

Suppose you do a...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th Feb 2002, 23:57
Replies: 13
Views: 644
Posted By greengage22

Post Good sense, Lucifer. Couldn't do better myself -...

Good sense, Lucifer. Couldn't do better myself - (and that's praise!!!)
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
20th Feb 2002, 00:07
Replies: 38
Views: 3,202
Posted By greengage22

Post Captain Moth, there appears to be something wrong...

Captain Moth, there appears to be something wrong with your logic.

Why are they so bloody full (which I can confirm, along with mattince)if they've destroyed their reputation?

It is not true...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th Feb 2002, 00:07
Replies: 24
Views: 1,104
Posted By greengage22

Post Captain Moth, there appears to be something wrong...

Captain Moth, there appears to be something wrong with your logic.

Why are they so bloody full (which I can confirm, along with mattince)if they've destroyed their reputation?

It is not true...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
18th Feb 2002, 20:37
Replies: 38
Views: 3,202
Posted By greengage22

Post I don't think so, because they are chock-a-block...

I don't think so, because they are chock-a-block with Algerians, modular, and self-sponsored. Every classroom is in full use all the time.

No, it's more likely to be because they now have their...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
18th Feb 2002, 20:37
Replies: 24
Views: 1,104
Posted By greengage22

Post I don't think so, because they are chock-a-block...

I don't think so, because they are chock-a-block with Algerians, modular, and self-sponsored. Every classroom is in full use all the time.

No, it's more likely to be because they now have their...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
15th Feb 2002, 17:14
Replies: 23
Views: 1,715
Posted By greengage22

Post Yes, but don't forget that the national average...

Yes, but don't forget that the national average includes ex-miltary and also experienced pilots with established foreign licences who simply need a conversion and those who are experienced, but have...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
14th Feb 2002, 23:56
Replies: 11
Views: 473
Posted By greengage22

Post No-one is going to sponsor you at the present...

No-one is going to sponsor you at the present time, apart from the odd one-off, done largely out of charity, such as astraeus.

But wait a year or so and we'll be back to a pre-Sep 11 situation,...
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