On The Glideslope

Month: October 2016

  • The PilotEdge CAT-01 Rating

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    PilotEdge has come out with yet another wonderful service for pilots and simmers: their new Communication and Airspace Training series of training ratings. These replace the “V” series of VFR ratings. There were three V ratings, and while excellent, the CAT ratings provide VFR fliers with a larger number of rating missions (11 rather than…

  • Night Flying Logan, UT to KSLC

    A night flight, following IFR procedures, from Logan, Utah (KLGN) to Salt Lake City (KSLC). IFR procedure in the KSLC is the ILS 17 approach. A lot of fun, and it featers Orbx OpenLC NA lighting augmented by Tabauret’s Utah lighting package. Thanks for watching.

  • A Real World Day

    Back in a real airplane today, and the flying was gorgeous. A wonderful day to be in the air!

  • The Milky Way

    Just two more photos from Wisconsin, these of the Milky Way. We had great seeing the last night, and these are 30 second exposures at f2. Note the Andromeda Galaxy at lower left in the second shot. If you click these they will load full size, and you’re welcome to use them as desktop wallpaper…

  • Matthew

    ForeFlight presents a pretty amazing view of Hurricane Matthew this morning. I measured the eye wall as just five nautical miles east of Cape Canaveral. 

  • Northern Lights

    I was in Wisconsin a few nights ago and we had clear skies, no moon, and an active Aurora Borealis. I’ve never seen the Northern Lights except from the passenger window of a transcontinental flight, and I’ve never seen anything like this. I managed to take a few time lapse photographs, and am sharing them…

  • PilotEdge I-01 Rating Video

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    Here’s the aforementioned run at the I-01 rating on PilotEdge, which is flying the 20R ILS approach into KSNA. Passed on the first try (although the intercept and landing are nothing to brag about, and in fact, the landing goes in my “Bottom 10” list!). But it was a lot of fun, and I’m looking…